Monday, January 09, 2006

Daniele's Rule:

A man who wants to read and write must let the grass grow long

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Previous Posts

• Is there anything that will stop you touching a book?
• Stuff happens?
• Graham Greene: novel, film, novel
• Fiction.
• EL Doctorow "Reporting the Universe"
• Odds and Sods
• NICOLAS KLIM’S UNDERGROUND JOURNEY
• Breathing in air, breathing out light
• Does it matter the world passed me by?
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you're...



Brit Lit Portals






utility

• surfers surf
• StumbleUpon

music

• Magnatune
• Jazz online
• musicovery
• Jamendo
• Odeo
• fInetune

e-texts

• Fullbooks

film

• ubu
• ubu - Jose Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
• ubu - Wittgenstein's Tractatus [Péter Forgács]
• filmmaker magazine
• greencine

writer's resources

• writer's resource center

I read

• Pinker: Towards a consilient study of literature [2007]
• Narrative partitioning: The ins and outs of identity construction
• History is photography:the afterimage of Walter Benjamin
• Walter Benjamin:The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• Jeremy Harding reviews The Narrow Foothold
• Rorty on Rorty: Trotsky and the Wild Orchids ('92)
• Some thoughts on writing well - John Leo
• Hackwriters [mag]
• Fictional footnotes
• What the housemaid saw
• Some landscapes
A single post: "The Sea at Balbec" - small piece of 'Seascape' from 'Les Plaisirs et les Jours'
• Wiki: mimesis
• Adorno on Mimesis [discussed]
• The Intertwining of Remembering & Forgetting in Walter Benjamin
• Unpacking Benjamin [José Ángel García Landa ]
• Berlin Childhood around 1900 [Benjamin]
• In Search of Proust [3 books reviewed]
• Pulp Fiction:Or, Proust and Joyce's Rhetorical Flourishes [John Coyle]
• Welcome light on Proust [Ludovici]
• The writings of the young Marcel Proust: An ideological critique
• Art for fictions sake [Will Self]
• The Valve - Contra Proust [Adam Roberts]
• Last Supper with Proust [review: A Night at the Majestic]
• contingency, liberation, and the seduction of geometry: hypertext as an avant-guade medium
• The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, & Aesthetics
• Borges versus Proust: Towards a combative literature [Tim Conley]
• Alain de Botton [Extract] - quote in intro to Sesames and Lilies
• Aesthetics of the Windshield: Proust & Modernist Rhetoric of Speed
The Turner bit
• Frederik Tygstrup - The Monstrous Novel - An Essay in Literary History
• Gallicia - Proust (French)
• Mark Kaplan on the aesthetic
• Raul Ruiz’s Time Regained and Filming the Unfilmable
• 6. Albertine Disparue - Chapter 3 - Venice
• Proust - (Venice) - Hemingway
• Proust in Venice
• Proust in Venice (photo)
• Journees de lecture (Proust)
• On reading Ruskin (Proust)
• Ruskin and the Arts
• Aesthetic and critical theories of John Ruskin
• Surprise, surprise: repetition & creation in Turner, Ruskin and Proust
• The long Proustian shelf (Bruce Bower)
• Prousts Way (Roger Shattuck) Chapter 1
• The Work and its Author (Roger Shattuck)
• Dan Schneider reviews The Novel
• Proust and his English
• Proust's English
• Why Proust? And Why Now?
• Selections from Proust [L J Hammond]
• Jules et Jim - notes on source
• Consciousness, Art and the Brain: Lessons from Marcel Proust
• Getting it All Wrong: Bioculture critiques Cultural Critique
• Trotsky on: Social roots/social function of art
• Roger Scruton :The trouble with Islam, the European Union - and Francis Fukuyama
• Dennett : Quining Qualia
• Kuhn : Ch. 1
• anarchic hand & free will
• An Atheist Manifesto - Sam Harris
• Hari on J S Mill
• Obit Chris Tame [libetarianism]
• Wiki: J S Mill
• J S Mill:Utilitarianism
• Utilitarianism.net
• J S Mill [associated ideas + crit]
• Getting to know Hegel
• Hegel: Encyclopaedia
• Hegel: critique of
• Thomas Paine in PostiveAtheism.org
• Ferrater Mora on Unamuno
• Strange Bedfellows: Nietzsche and Jesus Reconciled
• Follow my leader [Nicholas Humphrey 2001]
• Language log: the perils of semiotic speculation
"..more messages are received than have been sent."
• summary Kuhn Structure Scientific Revolutions
• Adventures of a Man of Science
Elif Batuman's long n+1 essay
• Denis Dutton on literary Darwinism

lit links

• Literary Weblogs: An overview
annoted
• Lit Weblogs
same but briefer

lit blogs

• Tales from the Reading Room
• 3quarksdaily
• Wood's Lot
• So Many Books [old]
• So Many Books [new]
• Bookworld
• Infinite Thought
• pas au dela
• The Middle Stage
• Ready Steady Book
• This Space
• Armadeep Singh
• Language log
• languagehat
• Reading Middlemarch
• Ron Sillman
• The Beiderbecke Affair
• The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone
For the Lewis, Pulham, Rowlings post

blogs with Proust

• Waggish reads Proust
• The English Teacher
• flickerfit
• Ad without Products
• Le Temp de Proust
• Dispatches from Zembla
• Slightly Bluestocking
• Hotel Point
• Some landscapes
A single post: "The Sea at Balbec"

Mags/Reviews

• Cabinet Magazine
• Other Voices - J. of Cultural criticism
• LRB
• Laura Hird
• The Quarterly Conversation
• 3:A.M.
• eurozine
• eurozine: bloom interview
• The New Hampshire Review

lit portals

• Arts & Letters Daily
• 'teoriablogs'

blognovels

• plan b

blogs - Le je sais quoi

• Via Negativa [Dave Bonta]

blogs - maps

• Strange Maps

compendiblog

• Grow-a-Brain
Bits

evolution / brain science / psychology

• neurophilosophy
• brainethics
• brainethics - old version
• mindhacks
• PsyBlog
• pharyngula

different

• bloggingheads.tv
dialogue: Robert Wright/Michael Klaus

Bipolar Blogs

• bipolardaily
• elvira black

odd articles

• Science, psychiatry and the mystery of madness

sources/resources

• Word of the Day
• Rhetorical terms
• The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
• Academic Index (search engine)
• Absolute Shakespeare
• Jim's Word/writer's links
A-Z and by category (monumental)
• Reasoning Well: skills for philosophy
• e-Book on The Diggers
Based on writing of Gerrard Winstanley
• Discover Biology
• placeopedia
• bloggers handbook pdf
• Semiotics for beginners
by Daniele Chandler
• NNDB
• Dictionary of History of ideas
• etymological dictionary
• Common Errors in English
• Use of English A-Z
• Ebooks Classic Literature by author
• Soc. for Text & Discourse
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• philosophical snippets
• Tameri Guide for Writers
• Tameri: A writer's lexicon
• Little Blue Light
Literature, poetry, philosophy - biogs, biblios, quotes
• Project Gutenberg (Australia)
• Literature
Wiki: links to lots
• First Lines
links to many e-books
• Word Spy
• BBC
• Glynn Hughes' Squashed Philosophers
Quick crib : Plato to Popper/Don't be ashamed to say you used it
• plexsoft.com
a sort of encyclopaedia

movies

• great directors
• Kathe Kollwitz
a beautiful short documentary from the Roland Collection show-casing her art but telling you a lot more
• Drawn from Experience
1990 Dutch: art therapy / 28 mins.
• Tassili N'Ajjer
Prehistoric Rock Paintings of the Sahara : 16 mins. Why not chose your own from:
• The Roland Collection
• Bad Cat : the Movie
for that moment when you just can't read another word...
• The Demented Cartoon:{Movie}
30 mins: not porn :could be used at the end of term by harassed teachers, at a pinch! {might need to download it: filters on school systems}
• D.O.A.
classic film noir : Edmund O'Brian

screen-writing

• The Screen-writing Life

screenplays

• Screenplays for You
• The Battle of Algiers (1965)
• INFlow's film script repository
• Network
• A - Z screenplays/movie scripts
• Charade (1963)
• Charade (1963)

professional writer's blogs

• Jeanette Winterson

professional philosopher's blogs (phlog?) / wikis

• Elise Springer
i>Literary blogs fill a niche USA Today article by Edward Nawotka
• Being a Lit-Blogger
Bud Parr of Chekhov's Mistress

Paranoia in literature

• The "scanty plot": Orwell, Pynchon, and the poetics of paranoia

Reading, Writing & Writers

Martin Amis

• Clive James on Amis' Leader biog

Martin Amis

• The Martin Amis Web

cervantes

• Cervantes by Catholic encyclopaedia
• Wiki: Cervantes
• Wiki: Don Quixote
• Don Quixote: summary
• Bloom on Quixote
Introduction to Edith Grossman's translation, 2003
• Ilan Stavans : Quartercentenary
• 400 Windmills
Quixote's Faith & other posts : David Auerbach
• Chekhov's Mistress
Why read Don Quixote?

Chekov

• 201 stories by Anton Chekov

Dostoevesky

• Dostoevesky
links and e-books
• The Grand Inquisitor
straight to Chapter 5 using FIND....

W N P Barbellion

• A Portrait in photographs
• W N P Barbellion
leads to quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Great Gatsby (e-text)

E M Forster

• Howard's End & links
• E-text Howard's End

Robert Louis Stevenson

• RSL links
• RSL website

Graham Greene

• Greeneland

Vasily Grossman

• Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945
review of book on his wartime notes/diaries
• - new entries at top

De Maupassant

• The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II
• de Maupassant: short stories
• Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers

Musil

• Musil:Precision and Soul, Essays and Addresses
• Musil: diary
• Musil: Man Without Qualities [engineeing]
• Musil: biog & books
• Musil: Five Women
• Musil: The chronicler of transition
• Musil: everyman's response
• Musil: within Enrique Vila-Matas's Bartleby & Co
• Musil: Volker Schlöndorff's Der Junge Törless (Young Torless, 1966)
• Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma [2 mentions]
• Musil: snippet
• Musil: 9 hour Polish play [Krystia Lupa]
• Musil: A sort of introduction; A sort of ending
• Musil: Ulrich - medieval mystical literature
• Musil: Eric Voegelin and Robert Musil: Literary Approaches to Spiritual Pathology
• Musil: Musil: Ernst Mach and Viennese Modernity
• Musil: Interpretation of 2 novellas

Nabakov

• zembla

Rilke

• The Raine Maria Rilke Archive
Renate Hannaford
• Wiki : Rilke
• Raine Maria Rilke: Life & work
from Books & Writers
• Rilke : Book review
LIFE OF A POET: Rainer Maria Rilke By Ralph Freedman
• Rilke: selected poems
• Rilke: Spanish Trilogy
sample
• Rainer Maria Rilke & Paula Modersohn-Becker
• Rilke: biog. by Cliff Crego
Many photos
• Rilke: poem index
• Rilke: love & other difficuties
• Rilke: for Lou Andreas salome
• Rilke: to Lou Andreas salome

Lou Andreas-Salomé

• Lou Salome
• The case of Lou Salome
Nietzsche, Ree, etc.
• Lou Salome: the famous photograph
• Letters: Freud & Lou Andreas-Salome
• Shared life Narratives
• In the Life of Lou Andreas-Salome
• Int J Psychoanal. 2000
• You Alone are Real to Me
Lou's memoire of Rainer Maria Rilke [review]
• 'A Fine New Shame'
Musical based on Lou Salome's life
• Lou Andrea-Salome : A Reunion [short story]

Irène Némirovsky

• Irene Nemirovsky
check life story:
• Irene Nemirovsky
• NYT review 'Suite Francaise'

W G Sebald

• LitEcyc
essay by Arthur Williams, U. of Bradford
• The Threepenny Review
• A Symposium on W.G. Sebald
• - telling biographical snippets
• Salon
Review of "Vertigo" by Brigitte Frase
• Spike Magazine
Stephen Mitchelmore reviews "Austerlitz"
• Flak Magazine
"Austerlitz" reviewed by Clay Risen
• New York Times
• Interview date line 11 December 2001
• - methods

George Orwell

• George Orwell: Revenge is Sour(1945)
• George Orwell: Politics vs. Literature (1946)
• George Orwell: Bookshop Memories (1936)
• Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)
essay by Norman Madarasz
• 'Death Sentence' by Maurice Blanchot
• Stephen Mitchelmore on Maurice Blanchot
• Blanchot: 2 extracts
• Blanchot: The madness of the day
• Wiki: Blanchot
• 201 stories by Anton Chekov
• "On Writing" : Heinlein's Rules
• George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
• Philip Pullman on writing
• Philip Pullman on grammer
• Primo Levi on translation
• Mauro Nervi's Kafka Project
Comprehensive resource
• Ronald Aronson Except Ch. 1 "Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It
• Commentary: Sartre vs. Camus by Algis Valiunas

Proust

• Proust : Wiki
• In Pursuit of Proust
• The curious fate of the last three volumes
• of the new edition: Aaron Matz
• The Kolb-Proust Archive
• Marcel (Valentin-Louis-George-Eugene) Proust (1871-1922)
Book and Writers profile
• Marcel Proust
Ephemera
• tempsperdu.com
• other Proust sites
• Marcel Proust: Or the Novel as writing
Pierre-Louis Rey
• Proust regained by Daniel Mark Epstein
• Doing Time with Marcel Proust
Jeanette Lowen
• Chapter 1 - Marcel Proust (Edmund White)
• A la Researche HTML
• Swann's Way
• Within A Budding Grove
• The Guermantes Way
• Cities of the Plain (Sodom et Gomorrhe)
• The Captive
• The Sweet Cheat Gone (Albertine disparue)
• Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé)
• The Elements of Style : William Strunk Jr.
Mike Sea's recommendation for writers
• Articles and Miscellaneous Writings

Mark Twain

• Mark Twain - Life and work

Voltaire

• Voltaire's Candide
• Voltaire
• New Yorker review:
• 'Voltaire's Garden' by Adam Gopnik
• Frigyes Karinthy
Hungarian writer in short-story, "Chains", said to have introduced idea of six degrees of separation
• Frigyes Karinthy - A Writer on his head
Story of Karinthy's, "A Journey Round My Skull"
• Frigyes Karinthy 1887-1938
Totally Hungarian, but check out the photo
• Frigyes Karinthy
A few frames for film buffs
• Lev Nussimbaum
biography of Azeri novelist

Virginia Woolf

• A Room of one's Own [e-text]
• Eight early short stories via Bartleby
• The Death of a Moth and other Essays (e-text)
• The Waves (e-text)
• To the Lighthouse and Beyond (biog plus pics)
• Venedikt Yerofeyev
Story of Russian cult author novel 'Moscow-Petushki'
• Elektrichka
The train Yerotfeyev used
• David Samoilov (1920–1990)
Russian poet in conversation

Philosophy

• Nietzsche's features

Blog write

• Copywriter
writing fiction, non-fiction and copywriting - using a blog to your publicise & improve writing skills
• World Wide Words
Michael Quinion

Film

• Susan Orlean
• The Orchid Thief
• Adaptation
• The weblog about the film about a man writing
• a screenplay involving the book
• by Susan Orlean


• Susan Orlean
(written by...Jason Kottke)


Moles

• Russ stutler
• Russ Stutler personal page
• Onion Boy
• h2g2 : Moleskine notebooks
• Wiki entry : h2g2
• Wikipedia : Moleskine
• Moleskineus : History of Moleskine
Links to Stories, Users (including films e.g. Matti's The Son's Room, Amelie), Design, Quotes
• Journalismo
Tucked out of the soft earth of the mole-hill...
• 43folders
• Witold Riedel talks about his drawing
• Withold Riedel's subway sketches
• Moleskine art
Armand B Frasco + MoleArt links
• Armand B Frasco
Gallery of MoleArt
• Mike Rohde - designer
• Loose Wire
Jeremy Wagstaff
• The Furry Goat experience
21 century PDA: Moleskine
• Mike Shea
Mike's Moleskine Hacks

script writing

• Wordplay
compehensive advice
• Fry and Laurie scripts

stimulation

• Karl Blossfeldt
Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature)