mnemosyne

𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 — 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨

[mudpuddling-moved]

beautiful icelandic words

afdrif, the fate of somebody

afturganga, a ghost, “one who walks again”

álfadans, dance of the elves

átt, the direction of the wind

augabragð, the twinkling of an eye

álfatrú, belief in fairies

bíldóttur, having black spots around the eyes of animals

blámóða, blue mist

blika, a cover of clouds, often foreboding storm or rain

blær, soft, calm wind

draugagangur, the walking of ghosts, a haunting

draumaland, land of dreams

dúnalogn, calm as death

dýjamosi, bright green moss growing in quagmires

fenna, to fill with snow

fjallavættur, a mountain spirit

fjúka, carried away by the wind

flygja, a ghost who accompanies a certain person

föl, a thick film of snow covering the ground

galdraöld, the age of magic

grængolandi, deep and dark green

gullbúinn, adorned with gold

hlakka, the cry of a bird of prey

hrafnagervi, the outward form of ravens

huldurdalur, hidden valley

kaf, to plunge into deep water

kollgáta, the true answer to the riddle

kossleit, looking for kisses

leirskáld, a bad poet

lumma, a pancake, or, the palm of a small hand

mói, ground covered with heather

morgungyðja, the goddess of the morning

mosavaxinn, overgrown with moss

náttúrufegurð, the beauty of nature

norðankaldi, a light breeze from the north

rammgöldróttur, full of witchcraft and wizardry 

rósóttur, with a design of roses

selslíki, the shape of a seal

sjódraugur, the ghost of a drowned man

smáminnka, getting smaller and smaller

sólskin, sunshine

stirndur, set full of stars

sumarsól, the sun in the summer

sæbrattur, rising steeply out of the sea

sælurdalur, the valley of bliss

undirsæng, a soft feather mattress

veturnætur, a few days before the first day of winter

[luthienne]

Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light; “Here Yet Be Dragons”

[confidentiallyconfusing]

R. Wright, “God Gave The Desert Too Many Teeth” | Maria Ines Gul, “A Girl and a Ghost” | Giana Angelillo | Keaton St. James, “BLACKLUNG” | Jana Heidersdorf, “Making a Demon” | Laurie Halse Anderson | Angela Deane, “Reflection/Reflection” | Sue Grafton, “M Is For Murder” | Nona Limmen | a softer world

[rotgospels]

a masterpost of my reading lists and recs: 

medieval women mystics

catherine of siena 

joan of arc

frankenstein, mary shelley

early christianity and early christian writing

lesbian nuns, monastic life

theology, the bible and horror theory

early modern european witch hunts + my goodreads list

[girlwithouthands]

    And when all the mysteries have gone extinct, when we have annihilated all trace of them, surely we will invent replacements—things miraculous and pure and rare—and build tombs for them, and scramble the maps so that we cannot find them to ruin them, and forget them there. We will bury the mysteries deep in the ground and wait to see what life (or death) they grow.     And one day we will become the dream archaeology, the irrecoverable evidence of our disaster.  Nothing will find us. Our bones will sink like primordial arrows into the earth, crawl lower and lower toward that red light, until they are swallowed by the magma churning at the planetary core, which is always moving, rotating.     And then, one day, the core will turn utterly dark and still: an inhuman stillness, from which what was buried rises not as the living dead, but as new forms of life that we cannot recognize. And yet how we would recognize ourselves in them, in these things remade from our material, though we could not survive them, though they would not let us near.

— Sara Eliza Johnson, ‘Genesis’

[thediverismylove]

“What is writing but the preservation of ghosts?”

— Cameron Awkward-Rich from “Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts”, Sympathetic Little Monster

[gnossienne]

i) anne carson, “why i wrote two plays about phaidra” (2008) ii) portrait de la jeune fille en feu (sciamma, 2019)

[facinaoris]

Roast duck elegy, K-Ming Chang

[saltlordofold]

“Avemo inseguito un sogno che non era nostro.”

[die-ritterin-deactivated2019090]

I made some pale ladies in paintings icons for all your pale painting icon needs. Also because editing paintings is fun.

Please like/reblog if you use.

[8kblog]

like/reblog.

[iamerudite]

Because I love History, I thought I should make a list of websites featuring awesome historical facts and resources. Will be updated.

The Map as History - A collection of animated historical maps which serves as timelines

Old Maps Online - A collection of old maps

99 Incredible Youtube Channels For History Buffs - A masterpost of videos which includes General History, Art History, Music History, Cultural History, Aviation History, U.S History, World History, Black History, and War History.

Voices of History - Listen to some of history’s most famous speeches and broadcast.

35 Greatest Speeches in History - 35 of the Best Orations and Orators

Worldology - A website for interactive maps which gives you an overview about civilizations, empires, nations, events, and people.

10 Heroic Last Stands from Military History - A Listverse article

10 Real-Life Female Spies Who Deserved Their Own Movie Franchise - Badass Women in History

Rome’s Pivotal Emperors - Some of the best Roman Emperors

History’s Greatest - History’s greatest people, places, and events.

HistoryNet - History features, photos, and articles taken from various magazines.

Timelines of History -  A collection of timelines from the Big Bang to modern events.

Secret and Spies - Read about the codes, code breakers, and spies in British history.

SwordHistory - Read all about different kinds of swords and armors, from Celtic swords to Egyptian swords and even Ninja swords. 

Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century - Read, listen, and download the most famous speeches in history.

[smakkabagms]

Some Favorite Essays, Short Stories, Novels

Essays: 1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa  2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry  3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering 4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek  5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying        - Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays  6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora  7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector 8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect 9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist?  10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud 11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love  12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering 13. Albert Henrichs -  Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus 

Short Stories:  1. Clarice Lispector - Love  2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1 3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress 4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water 5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet  6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went  7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things 8.  Kirstin Valdez Quade - Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224) 9.  Clarice Lispector - One Day Less Novels: 1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata  2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities  3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite) 4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link) 5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter 6. Clarice Lispector -  AGUA VIVA  (my favorite) Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E 

[aescademic]

six colour palettes / click for high res! → i was asked here about colours, so i put together some of my favourite colour palettes. you can also get colours from:

adobe colour

colour scheme generator

finds + matches colours

palettes from photos

palettes from movies

[englishlit-chic]

This started out as a Google Doc for personal use, but I might as well share it with you since the internet is awesome and chances are there are other lit freaks like me out there! + Masterposts are the best

Beginners (old but gold tbh)

Sparknotes

Cliffnotes

ThugNotes

CrashCourse

Novel Guide

Shmoop

Grade Saver (I’ve found some rare XVIII century plays explained here!)

English 101 (English lit)

English 102 (American lit)

Tips to Analyze, Write, Interpret literature (College level):

English 103: Analyzing and Interpreting Lit.

Literary Analysis Guide - Goshen College

Literary Analysis: Using Elements of Literature

HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY

How to Write an Analysis of Theme — Teaching College English

Analyzing and Interpreting Literature | CLEP

How I Plan and Write Literature Papers by notaperfectstudent​

Very Useful (misc.)

CRITICAL THEORY: Introduction to Literature

Literary Theory Links

Voice of the Shuttle (great humanities research page)

Warwick English Page (bunch of links, exams, essays, etc…)

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Archive: Articles and Essays

Online Lectures

Terry Eagleton: “The Death of Criticism?” - UC Berkeley Events

Modernism Undone: T.S. Eliot’s Literary Revolution

A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” (Lecture by Thomas Howard, Professor Emeritus, Gordon College)

Arts One Open: on The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (Lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme)

Introduction to Literary Theory - Yale

Harold Bloom on Shakespeare - Yale

Harold Bloom on Walt Whitman

Noam Chomsky on Linguistics

Keio Linguistic Colloquium SYNTAX SESSION Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT)

Open Courses

ENGL 291: THE AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1945 - Yale

ENGL 220: MILTON - Yale

AMST 246: HEMINGWAY, FITZGERALD, FAULKNER - Yale

Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World - U- of Michigan (took this, it’s great! Course starts October 2015)

MODERN POETRY - Yale

The Fiction of Relationship - Brown (no open sessions rn but I took this and it is also great, so stay tune for when the course re-opens)

Victorian Era

Literary Genre, Mode, and Style during the Victorian Era (so many sources, essays and papers!! <3)

Nostalgia and the Victorian Novel

Getting On C.19th Lit

Landscape

Tess and Wuthering Heights

Female Relationships

Foreign Spaces

Romanticism

The Romanticism Blog (posts concerning scholars and students, here you will find great ideas for essays!)

The Romantics: Nature (bbc doc)

The Romantics: Eternity (bbc doc)

The Romantics: Liberty (bbc doc)

Lord Byron (bbc doc)

Romantic Circles

Romantic Chronology http://www.english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/ The Voice of the Shuttle, Romanticism pages  http://vos.ucsb.edu/  –> literature (in English)–> Romantics–>  a wealth of links to many resources

The XVIII Century

Skin as Surface in Swift and Pope

Public Opinion in Swift and Gay

The Female Body in Swift and Pope

Bawdiness in Cleland and Sterne

Voyeurism in Cleland

Narrative and Progress in Tristram Shandy

Shakespeare

Reading Shakespeare’s Play

Introduction to Shakespeare’s life and works

Featured Essays and Book Excerpts on Shakespeare’s Plays

Shakespeare Mag: Education and resources

Introduction to Shakespeare (so many links!):

Humanist Grammar School

Comedy

Problems with Shakespeare’s Texts

Shakespearean Verse and Prose

Dramatic Plot Structure

Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices

The Histories

Tragedy

Revenge Tragedy

Establishing the Text of Hamlet

The Romances

Blackfriars Theater and Audience Expectations

Hamlet performed by BATHS (for me this is a great representation tbh!)

Synopses of Shakespeare’s Plays

Shakespeare Resource Center

The Shakespeare Authorship Page

Internet Shakespeare Editions

Robert Teeter’s Shakespeare Links

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Virtual Tour

Interactive Globe Theatre

Shakespeare Timeline

The Folger Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare Illustrated (Emory University)

Steven Marx’s “Triangulating Shakespeare”

“But I have that within that passes show”: Hamlet’s Soliloquies as an Expression of Shakespeare’s Loss and Transformation (essay)

Medieval

Medieval English Studies A GUIDE TO MIDDLE ENGLISH

Translatio studii et imperii

Medieval Attitudes toward Vernacular Literature

Courtly Love

Medieval Allegory

The Alliterative Revival

The Three Medieval Estates

Arthurian literature

Arthurian Studies Links & Essays

Arthurian Resources (Thomas Green)

Arthurian Links (Thomas Green)

Labyrinth Arthurian Links

The Camelot Project (Medieval to modern texts and images)

King Arthur links (Medieval History site)

Britannia Arthurian Links

Holy Grail  links (Mary Weidenhaft)

Women of the Arthurian Legend (Camelot Project–modern)

Arthuriana (International Arthurian Society journal)

Arthurnet (Listserve)

A scholarly discussion list for King Arthur

Arthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies

Princeton Charrette Project (Manuscript images of Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot romance)

Yale MS 229, Prose Lancelot (Illuminated manuscript images)

The Camelot Project Artists Menu (modern)

Poetry

Essay writing tips for poetry

Poetry Foundation: Lectures

Essays on Poetic Theory

British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions

The American Poetry Full-Text Database

English Verse Drama: the Full-Text Database

The English Poetry Full-Text Database

Online Exams

Romantics Exam

Eighteenth Century Literature Final here

Medieval to Renaissance English Literature Examen (Warwick)

SHAKESPEARE: END-OF-SEMESTER EXAM “A MOST LAMENTABLE COMEDY”

[studyingliterature]

Not sure how well all of these work, but re-blogging for those who message me for help on some of these areas. I hope this is helpful! -J

[89words]

“It’s not a metaphor, this ache.”

— Catherine Abbey Hodges, from “Solstice on the Middle Fork,” Tar River Review (vol. 59, no. 2, Spring 2020)

[aridante]

Andrés Cerpa, “The Vault”