#norton anthology

[these-caffeinated-thoughts]

Emotional support pile of books (+ Paddington)

#paddington #john keats #Norton anthology #boyfriend material #Heartstopper #Solitaire #osemanverse

[thememoirsofaboredenglishstudent]

she’s safely been united with me

#shakespeare #norton anthology #royal mail i’m in your walls you bastards

[booksinpiles]

Teaching titles

#my reading life #the norton doubles as weightlifting #norton anthology #literature #poetry #british literature #american literature #shakespeare #teaching resources #office library

[grandhotelabyss]

Do you recommend a particular edition of the Norton Critical?

The Norton Anthologies were at their best in the '80s, '90s, and '00s, when the selections tended to be informed by a conscious expansiveness, rather than the unconscious parochialism that prevailed before or the willful antinomianism that increasingly rules now. It's the difference between adding a Woolf selection commensurate in length with the Joyce selection to the Anthology because the editors became persuaded she was a major writer, which happened circa 1980, and clogging the book with ever-more historical-cultural-political "clusters" of truncated bits and pieces of nonfiction flotsam about ideological topics having little necessary relation to imaginative literature, which I think began in the 1990s but has been reaching farcical proportions in the more recent editions. In fairness, the Anthologies are still excellent and worth owning even up to the latest versions, but the cultural-studies-ification has gotten out of hand. As for the Norton Critical Editions, the individual editors have a lot of leeway to do what they want with them, so both the old and the new ones have to be judged on a case-by-case basis even when the same author is involved. Their Dubliners, for example, isn't great, the critical selections monotonously dominated by historicist approaches, while their Portrait of the Artist is by contrast excellent, providing a much richer overview of the novel's critical reception.

#norton anthology

[shrimpindipity]

My pirated Norton Anthology has its moments.

#norton anthology #english #british literature #16th century #this is my punishment for piracy

[crimsonclad]

I keep seeing Takes about how recent media like Glass Onion and The Menu aren’t taking “eat the rich” seriously enough to launch real change or revolution and like?? yeah??? popular crowd-pleasing entertainment where horrible rich people Suffer A Comeuppance for the pleasure of an audience is one of the oldest tropes in all of human history???? It is a crowd pleaser! It is the bread (ha) and butter of the Western canon! It is in Chaucer it is in Dante it is in Shakespeare it is the stuff of Dickens and 95% of Agatha Christie and almost every teen movie ever made??????? “look at these horrible rich idiots and hypocrites…and now enjoy their DESTRUCTION” transcends time and space and historical moments! It is so strange to be surprised that Hollywood returns to this well without any intention of seeking anything more transgressive than an audience having a hearty chuckle lmao

#it would be great if we could all walk away from Omelas but expecting billion dollar studios to lead the charge seems a bit misguided #spoilers #kinda but not really more than the trailers tell you #the menu #glass onion #Norton Anthology of Literature #etc #Clue! #The Sting! #now I’m just naming movies I’ve watched this week

[hiddenprincessx]

They Flee From Me

They flee from me that sometime did me seek

With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.

I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,

That now are wild and do not remember

That sometime they put themself in danger

To take bread at my hand; and now they range,

Busily seeking with a continual change.

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise

Twenty times better; but once in special,

In thin array after a pleasant guise,

When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,

And she me caught in her arms long and small;

Therewithall sweetly did me kiss

And softly said, ‘Dear heart, how like you this?’

It was no dream: I lay broad waking.

But all is turned thorough my gentleness

Into a strange fashion of forsaking;

And I have leave to go of her goodness,

And she also, to use newfangleness.

But since that I so kindly am served

I would fain know what she hath deserved.

-Thomas Wyatt

#poetry #hold me tonight #love me goodbye #temporary fix #Norton anthology #patience

[stuckinapril]

i love anthologies. anthologies are so sexy

#in an alternate world where im an english lit major the norton anthology of english lit is my bible #it's by no means an exhaustive overview but i really love how everything is in its neat timeline #and you get a general vibe for how literature was back then as opposed to just going in blind. u see how everything influences everything #a major (maybe a bit irrational?) fear i have is i come out of a book w superficial understanding #and while that has contributed to unfortunate reading slumps i do also like this trait of me #where i am actually focused on giving a book/period of time the respect it deserves vs just reading it flippantly #i like doing my silly little pre-read of a period of time/author before jumping into it #i don't do pre-reads for everything but there are books where i find it necessary to prime my brain for absorbing them #and anthologies are good for that #and they're also a good resource for investigating authors whose vibe sits right w u. #or for knowing the general quaintessential authors of a certain genre of lit #i also love poetry anthologies #the commentary comparing/contrasting certain authors is also rly interesting to me . ok i'll shut up now #p

[southfarthing]

what they don't tell you is that one day you'll be in your twenties and it will be 2am and you will be reading and annotating and analysing snippets of poetry in the silmarillion and it will be purely for the fun of it

#this is like uni all over again.... it was just me and my norton anthology against the world (also at 2am) #🥴🫡 #sunny reads the silm #mp

[drowninginabactatank]

Sometimes you see a book at the street library and you just know you have to bring it home~

Catfantastic 2 edited by Andre Norton & Martin H Greenberg.

All new tales of those long-tailed furry keepers of mankind, practitioners of magical arts beyond human ken.

#catfantastic #paperback #vintage paperbacks #andre norton #Martin h greenberg #catfantastic ii #catfantastic 2 #street library #bookblr #bookworm #reading #bookish 📚 #mine #cats #anthology

[thequietabsolute]

In the late 1960s, a number of important thinkers in France — Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and Roland Barthes among them — began to investigate what would happen to Western thought if the fact that it exists mainly in writing were taken seriously.

— The Norton Anthology: Theory and Criticism, from the entry on Hélène Cixous [2001]

#literary criticism #philosophy #essay #helene cixous #jacques derrida #julia kristeva #roland barthes #the norton anthology #quote

[shredsandpatches]

rip* Johann Faust(us), your achievements in humanities outreach were truly heroic

*pieces, if you're using the b-text

#doctor faustus #unironically love this intro tho #it's david bevington's from the norton ren dram anthology #i studied this play with him as an MA student and his empathetic dealing with it #was important to me as an aspiring academic in a slow-motion state of spiritual crisis #hot faust summer #(tempted to just roll with 'hot faust summer')

[cyancherub]

Hello! Hope you’re having a wonderful week 😊

Can I ask, what are some of your favorite books??

What inspired you and continues to inspire your writing?

HELLO ! ! ! ! !i am having a great week!! ;--; i hope you are as well!!

THANK U FOR ASKING!!! my favorite book is despair by nabokov. in terms of style he's my favorite prose writer.. love him to death i think his writing is just beautiful. he can also be hilarious (albeit tongue-in-cheek). i've read almost all his books/short stories, and his memoir.

fav poets are baudelaire, rimbaud, ts eliot. baudelaire is my fav writer of all time - his themes resonate with me most.

love shirley jackson as well for spooky stuff; i think she's great at finding horror in the mundane. love anything and everything gothic. love poe of course. lovecraftian themes (rly wish he werent such a bastard) and landscapes: the outlandish, strange, and unknown. all things otherworldly and fantastical in a dark way. love also epics/mythos regardless of origin. folklore, fairy tales, etc (the darker the origin the better, and when it comes to unsanitized versions of fairytales it's usually dark). greek mythology, panthea across cultures. dante's divine comedy comes to mind too.

i am MOST inspired by the themes of the Decadents (namely,, beauty, indulgence, materialism, luxury) PARTICULARLY!!! where these themes intersect with horror - finding beauty in the evil, disgusting, and grotesque (esp as captured by baudelaire. the sensual dealing of the shocking and repulsive). find me where horror and erotica meet and blur together. (to me there's no real delineation between the two. this extends to art as a visual medium also. one of my fav artists is takato yamamoto, eroguro extraordinaire.) anyway what i mean to say is: IF IT ROMANTICIZES THE MACABRE THEN I AM THERE. !!!!!

#thotbox #thotmail #THANK U I LIKE TALKING ABT THIS #library cherub #ALSO ! i read a lot of short story collections. i am a short story connoisseur #if u will #something i do also is get like. those 'norton anthology of world literature' and then i read thru it and if i encounter smth i rly like i #read more from the author #I JSUT LOVE ANTHOLOGIES #OH ALSO another favorite from this yr: 'piercing' by ryu murakami #this is very particular of me but i dont read books unless both the plot and the prose draws me in. if i dont like it i will simply just #quit readimng #i dont stick it out if im not feeling it #i rly love reading horror but its hard to find well-written horror and a lot of the 'horror giants' er...i am not a fan of their writing #some guy that rhymes with shmeven sfing #he aint my guy. i liked the shining tho. but ive dropped several others by him bc i found them insufferable

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

On this episode, Ariel sits down with Justine Norton-Kertson, editor of the forthcoming BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY. They discuss what lunarpunk is in contrast to solarpunk, what inspired Justine to put together an anthology of lunarpunk fiction, and a sneak peek at some of the participating authors and the content that fans can expect to encounter!

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#Ariel #Justine Norton-Kertson #lunarpunk #solarpunk #spirituality #solarpunk presents #solarpunk futures #podcast #solarpunk presents podcast #season one episode six #Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology #genre #speculative fiction #SF #SFF #specfic #writing #poetry #fiction #book #anthology #editing #Android Press

[yousaytomato]

Whilst Vampire Lit is a hot topic, I was thinking about reading Carmilla (1872)

Does anyone have any recommendations for particular editions of it, particularly any with annotations or contexts?

Idm if it's in an anthology with others but I don't really want to spend a crazy amount lol

#woes of emily #Dracula daily #carmilla #Sheridan Le Fanu #I'm thinking in june. when we have a bit of a dracula dry spell it might be nice to read this one #the only one that seems tempting is the 'clockwork' edition? #but there's not a lot of info on what's actually IN there? like is it unabridged. definitive text? #bookblr #there's no Norton edition. and the cambridge gothic tails anthology doesnt include it #there's also a different annotated version but again. so little info #help 😭 #if no one has advice I'll buy the clockwork version and hope for the best i think

[thecrenellations]

hey sorry we returned your boyfriend to the campus bookstore. yeah when you left him on the table after lunch he still had those orange stickers on him so we took him back. sorry. you'll see him on the shelf if he's on the syllabus next fall though.

#were you even going to do the reading? #boyfriend meme #the context for this is that i went around referring to my 3000 page Norton Anthology of English Literature v.2 as my boyfriend for a bit #years later i remembered this and was like - #curse you heteronormativity! #yeah probably but it's a niche/weird/fun manifestation of it as heteronormativity goes #and this meme amuses me #norton anthology of english literature #textbooks #occasionally feel like you should be more interested in dating? date a book! #something i