Dropbox Containing Linguistics Textbooks

LITERATURE

House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic (1996)

"No proper feeling for her house": The Relational Formation of White Womanliness in Shirley Jackson's Fiction (2013)

WALKING ALONE TOGETHER: FAMILY MONSTERS IN "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" (2014)

"Some-are like My Own—": Emily Dickinson's Christology of Embodiment (2004)

A CIRCUMFERENCE OF EMILY DICKINSON (1973)

TWO WOMEN: THE STUDY OF THE DEATH THEME IN EMILY DICKINSON AND EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1967)

ECCENTRICITIES IN EMILY DICKINSON'S NATURE POETRY (1986)

Presence and Place in Emily Dickinson's Poetry (1984)

The Development of Dickinson's Style (1988)

The Riddles of Emily Dickinson (1978)

Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale (1994)

Forced, Forbidden and Rejected Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2006)

“TWO LEGGED WOMBS”: SURROGACY AND MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2019)

“I AM A NATURAL RESOURCE”: THE ECONOMY OF COMMODIFICATION IN ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2011)

The Ambiguity of Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2010)

Hairball Speaks: Margaret Atwood and the Narrative Legacy of the Female Grotesque (2010)

IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? — BIBLICAL INTERTEXT IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1993)

The Eye as Weapon in If Beale Street Could Talk (1978)

The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club" (2007)

Historicizing Japan's Abject Femininity: Reading Women's Bodies in "Nihon ryōiki" (2013)

THEATRE

"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)

"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)

"Service" in King Lear (1958)

In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)

See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)

“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)

"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)

The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)

FILM

Review: Reservoir Dogs (1993)

A Slice of Delirium: Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" Revisited (1995)

Review: Taxi Driver (1976)

TAXI DRIVER (1976)

Docufictions: An Interview with Martin Scorsese on Documentary Film (2007)

AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE SIXTIES (1984)

Anatomy of the "Prick Flick": TAKING THE MEASURE OF MANLY MOVIES (2017)

Films: All the President's Men at the ABC (1976)

Back to the Future: The Humanist "Matrix" (2003)

RE-WRITING "REALITY": READING "THE MATRIX" (2000)

Bringing Love to the Screen (Interview with James Laxton) (2020)

INTERVIEW WITH BARRY JENKINS (2016)

Chasing Fae: "The Watermelon Woman" and Black Lesbian Possibility (2000)

Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977)

Sidney Lumet's Humanism: The Return to the Father in "Twelve Angry Men" (1986)

Intensified Continuity Visual Style in Contemporary American Film (2002)

LOVE AND THEFT (Shoplifters) (2018)

Notes on the Split-Field Diopter (2007)

Positive Images & the Coming out Film: THE ART AND POLITICS OF GAY AND LESBIAN CINEMA (2000)

Rock 'n' Roll Sound Tracks and the Production of Nostalgia (1999)

The Sounds of Silence: Songs in Hollywood Films since the 1960s (2002)

The Godfather Saga (1978)

"Plastics": "The Graduate" as Film and Novel (1985)

The New Wave's American Reception (2010)

OTHER

Review: When Evolution Became Conversation: "Vestiges of Creation," Its Readers, and Its Respondents in Victorian Britain (2001)

Movement, knowledge, emotion: Gay activism and HIV/AIDS in Australia (2011)

On the Trail of the "Witches:" Wise Women, Midwives and the European Witch Hunts (1987)

"Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power (2010)

Female Identity, Food, and Power in Contemporary Florence (1988)

Feminist Food Studies: A Brief History

A modern day holy anorexia? Religious language in advertising and anorexia nervosa in the West (2003)

Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1985)

The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920 (1995)

Women, piety and practice: A study of women and religious practice in Malaysia (2008)

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This is part 1 of a few on dystopia that I’ll be publishing every Monday because I find it incredibly interesting that we are so fascinated by societies that are going horribly wrong.

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if any of yall are interested in poetry and learning how to read, analyse, and appreciate a poem, check out this free course by the University of York that goes in-depth about reading poetry! i’m taking it now and it’s really good, 10/10 would recommend to anyone who is even a little bit interested in poetry

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It's world poetry day so here are some of my favorite poems:

Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Crossword by Lloyd Schwartz

The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín

Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

in another string of the multiverse, perhaps by Michaella Batten

acknowledgments by Danez Smith

Death Wish by Josh Alex Baker

San Francisco by Richard Brautigan

How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell

You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton

On Political(ized) Life by Kanika Lawton

All the Dead Boys Look Like Me by Christopher Soto

It Was the Animals by Natalie Diaz

In Time by W.S. Merwin

It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off by Hanif Abdurraqib

Dear Life by Maya C. Popa

I Could Touch It by Ellen Bass

To The Young Who Want To Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds by Ada Limón

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The school system continues to fail neurodiverse students

Neurodivergence in academic settings is highly misunderstood & under discussed. Below is a master list of information on the reality of being a neurodivergent student in an education system built for neurotypicals; as well as resources and tools to aid students with autism, adhd, dyslexia and more in higher education. Please share this post so it can reach, educate and assist and many people as possible.

**this will be continuously updated. if you have any additions please feel free to message me or send me an ask and i’ll add it to the list!

✰ EDUCATE YOURSELF

NEURODIVERSITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

VALUING DIFFERENCES: NEURODIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM

ADHD EDUCATION CARRD

AUTISM EDUCATION CARRD

MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AUTISM

DEALING WITH DYSLEXIA CARRD

TONE INDICATORS CARRD

✰ HELPFUL READS/SELF HELP

NEURODIVERSE SELF-CARE: MANAGING ANXIETY THROUGH CONNECTION

NEURODIVERSITY WELLNESS: LINKS TO SOME GREAT COVID-19 RESOURCES

PREPARING FOR COLLEGE WITH DYSLEXIA

AT UNIVERSITY: THE ART OF SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISABILITY

HACKING YOUR ADHD - where you can learn techniques for helping your adhd brain

SURVIVING COLLEGE WITH ADHD

GOING TO COLLEGE WITH AUTISM

5 TIPS FOR AUTISTIC STUDENTS STARTING UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE

✰ TOOLS

FOCUS@WILL: an ios & android app designed to increase your focus and attention, Focus@Will uses specially engineered audio in which frequencies similar to the human voice are removed. Why? We are wired to pay attention to them, and they distract us.

FINISH: an app that lets you add tasks and divide them into “short term,” “mid term,” or “long term,” as defined by you.

CLAROSPEAK: ClaroSpeak offers the option of visual highlighting in-sync with the spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading and word prediction to help with writing.

C PEN: The C-Pen Reader is a totally portable, pocket-sized device that reads text aloud with an English, Spanish or French human-like digital voice.

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Short Story Recommendations

These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie

Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl

Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

The Landlady - Roald Dahl

A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke

The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin

The Veldt - Ray Bradbury

The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick

The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft

The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor

A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver

Cathedral - Raymond Carver

The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Chef - Andy Weir

The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko

The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke

The Star - Arthur C Clarke

Reunion - Arthur C Clarke

The Commuter - Philip K Dick

Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick

To Serve Man - Damon Knight

Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme

Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto

The Box Social - James Reaney

He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi

The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer

A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates

The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton

The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar

The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez

On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges

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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul *

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux *

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote *

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman *

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan *

Why I Write - George Orwell *

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland *

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag *

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag *

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger *

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger *

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo *

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall *

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon *

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls *

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato *

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae *

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom *

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore *

The Anti-Che - Jay Nordlinger

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert *

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson *

All By Myself - Martha Bailey *

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History) *

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History) *

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar *

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based *

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman *

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha *

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way *

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs *

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield *

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu *

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman *

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal *

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad *

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin *

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream *

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter) *

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales) *

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales) *

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas *

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries) *

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell *

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard *

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia *

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

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LITERATURE : WHERE TO START ? | MASTERPOST

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hey so i made a massive database of 900 (and counting) sapphic books, sortable by age, genre and rep! take a look if u feel so inclined (and maybe retweet my tweet?). there’s a submissions page if u catch any i’ve missed (or any incorrect info on them), but pls do check i’ve not just sorted it in a way you don’t expect!

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Notion Master Post ✨

I reached a personal goal with this blog so I decided to celebrate with this Master Post ✨

This is going to be a long post so I am putting it all under the cut. Notion is a free to students app that is used primarily for note taking but I can be used for so much more.

Below the cut is some resources I use to make my Notion pages useful and beautiful! I hope you enjoy and feel free to message me if you want any more information.

Keep reading

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