Pope contracted a tubercular condition from infected milk, which caused permanent curvature of the spine and severely stunted growth; as a result, he attained a maximum height of only four feet, six inches, and throughout adulthood was so physically disabled that he required daily care.
Source: enotes.com/poetry-criticism/pope-alexander
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
PROTESTS IN PUNJAB UNIVERSITY
Strikes were held. After a long protests, meetings, discussions and a conclusion which is still not clear.
Classes are suppose to proceed from Monday onwards.
Mid-terms will be scheduled in the last week of April. Hopefully, everything works out fine.
Classes are suppose to proceed from Monday onwards.
Mid-terms will be scheduled in the last week of April. Hopefully, everything works out fine.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
YALE / LITERATURE THE AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1945
Watch it on Academic Earth
Related Resources: Lecture Transcript and Reading Assignment
Course Index
- The American Novel Since 1945
- Richard Wright, Black Boy
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont)
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- Nabokov and Modernism
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont)
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont)
- J D Salinger, Franny and Zooey
- John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont)
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont)
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont)
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont)
- Edward P Jones, The Known World
- Edward P Jones, The Known World (cont)
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont)
- Review for Final Exam
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Agatha Christie
Source: wikipedia, Agatha_Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.
Christie has been referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels.UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Christie's books have been translated into at least 56 languages.
Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.
Christie has been referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels.UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Christie's books have been translated into at least 56 languages.
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