The Road

NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all

http://blog.mattmecham.com/2007/05/29/cormack-mccarthy-the-road/

Hope:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/200805/coping-and-procrastination-the-role-hope

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CGoQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swarthmore.edu%2FSocSci%2Fbschwar1%2Fpitfalls.pdf&ei=5epxT-OyKoPC0QGIlOWgAQ&usg=AFQjCNHKErPOuXD1lgCFc7gjizHGBkt_jg&sig2=Iz-GAe8EOtNQLnsdv7Ws9g

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joyce-mcfadden/the-psychology-of-hope-an_b_141856.html

This is an article on The Road and "The Allegory of the Cave"

tp://journals.tdl.org/cormacmccarthy/index.php/cormacmccarthy/article/view/852/616


More about The Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/mccarthy_road.html

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/philip-connors/crenellated-heat

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2639&context=etd

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499

http://network.bepress.com/explore/arts-and-humanities/english-language-and-literature/literature-in-english-north-america/?facet=publication_facet%3A%22Cormac+McCarthy+Conference%22

"The Mule" and Hair in Their Eyes Were Watching God

This article is about Eaton, FL and Hurston:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/us/29florida.html​

The "mule"
http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1137&context=honors

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Pe4W0-QQdvsC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=mule+in+african+american+female+characters&ots=pj-4vEOHIk&sig=5b1Z0gsXFfXcdrONBXh3RJIdXyE#v=onepage&q=mule%20in%20african%20american%20female%20characters&f=false

http://ijellh.com/ecofeminist-reading-toni-morrisons-the-bluest-eye/

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6935&context=etd

http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1477932641146~346

The issue of hair:

Hair:

http://www.asu.edu/feature/includes/summer05/readmore/hair.html

http://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=jur

http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=art_design_theses

http://file.scirp.org/pdf/JSS_2014010814473478.pdf

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/black-hair-care-and-culture-story

http://www.ijessnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/10.pdf

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RuGMORXyF4YC&oi=fnd&pg=PA155&dq=nature+in+their+eyes+were+watching+god&ots=I9lQ3c8-t-&sig=1VQGjqg6o4V4Zv_6QdFSoBu17pI#v=onepage&q=nature%20in%20their%20eyes%20were%20watching%20god&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DjQMg8gTzygC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=nature+in+their+eyes+were+watching+god&ots=iRj260ZYrT&sig=vyS5ro_-BwgLohx-7JMIrAnMCzM#v=onepage&q=nature%20in%20their%20eyes%20were%20watching%20god&f=false

Their Eyes Were Watching God

"How It Feels to Be Colored Me"

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grand-jean/hurston/chapters/how.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/folklore-zora-neale-hurstons-their-eyes-were-watching-god

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=WBNuLxTzzwMC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=their+eyes+were+watching+god+&ots=KAzRr1Ma0_&sig=mxqil9lKNLCWkG8Ycj1Jvc6N2_k#v=onepage&q=their%20eyes%20were%20watching%20god&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RuGMORXyF4YC&oi=fnd&pg=PA155&dq=their+eyes+were+watching+god+critical+&ots=I9gN-e64o7&sig=fZIDfaYqwb2NZjUuQPtX5rGQAsk#v=onepage&q=their%20eyes%20were%20watching%20god%20critical&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DjQMg8gTzygC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=their+eyes+were+watching+god+critical+&ots=iRe-22X1m-&sig=SNAVAwSdsHW_WfsojBWRQlGiupA#v=onepage&q=their%20eyes%20were%20watching%20god%20critical&f=false

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/464063?sid=21105518868921&uid=2&uid=3739256&uid=3739808&uid=4

https://books.google.com/books?id=WWDZBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=Simmons,+Ryan.+%22The+Hierarchy+Itself:+Hurston%27s+Their+Eyes+Were+Watching+God+and+the+Sacrifice+of+Narrative+Authority%22.+African+American+Review+36.2+%28Summer+2002%29:+181-93.+Print&source=bl&ots=TDBQHQO9Cc&sig=hYD7BMCCCTuHvHxUDTm7JGrO6NU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tSUHVenhE4uyggS9s4CIBQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Simmons%2C%20Ryan.%20%22The%20Hierarchy%20Itself%3A%20Hurston's%20Their%20Eyes%20Were%20Watching%20God%20and%20the%20Sacrifice%20of%20Narrative%20Authority%22.%20African%20American%20Review%2036.2%20(Summer%202002)%3A%20181-93.%20Print&f=false

Podcast:
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/neas-the-big-read/id303133830?mt=2&i=52870823

Updated Syllabus

10/31 T  ASSIGN SECOND PAPER

11/2 R NO CLASS

11/7 T Their Eyes Were Watching God (Up to Ch 10),

11/9 R Their Eyes Were Watching God (Up to 15)

11/14 T Finish Their Eyes Were Watching God PAPER DUE

11/16 R The Road

11/21  T The Road, ASSIGN FINAL PAPER

11/23 R ***NO CLASS*** 

11/28 T The Road

11/30 R The Road, Sign up for Presentations

12/5 T Presentations

12/7 R Presentations

12/12 T Final Research Paper due

Different Images for We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/10/08/the-witchcraft-of-shirley-jackson/

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3346088?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FwpLwPJpSNwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA110&dq=we+have+always+lived+in+the+castle&ots=ejhHiL2UTf&sig=yPixCCX-Yp32x25f5a-QySOELx4#v=onepage&q=we%20have%20always%20lived%20in%20the%20castle&f=false

http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/37318590/04_Hwang_1.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1476374064&Signature=YhFt7a8LoeZrfSkKE6vRnQLNJY8%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DWriting_is_the_way_out_Shirley_Jackson.pdf

http://flavorwire.com/447850/flavorwire-author-club-shirley-jacksons-haunting-final-novel-we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/21/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-shirley-jackson-a-house-of-ordinary-horror

Info on Pafko At the Wall

http://perival.com/delillo/underworld_triumph.html

This link gives some insight to what the author was attempting to do with this story. There are also links to other articles on the text.

https://depaul.digication.com/discover_chicago_chicago_cubs1/Pafko_at_the_Wall_Response

More critical analysis of the text.

http://genius.com/Stephen-pringle-when-sport-and-literature-collide-annotated

This above link is from a blog and I tend to be negative on blogs as an outside source but there are some good points here.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/090797article3.html

http://perival.com/delillo/19511004_NYT.html