Thoughts on Great Writers: Video Clips

Themes, Works, Changing Perspectives

Your guide: Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.

I hope you enjoy these brief video introductions to great writers.

Filmography is by Dave Feiden (http://www.davefeiden.com).

Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4889736434507725103

Four Years Before Her Suicide: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4024436197465809653

On The Bell Jar http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2627289143672315830&q=sylvia+plath

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8785531416466916646

Walt Whitman http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6593351407396735733&q=walt+whitman

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2619871588557598194

While many readers focus primarily on magical realism in all of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's work, the short novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, provides an opportunity to examine the text through multiple critical vantage points and perspectives. Each yields a particular insight, and reveals much about the nature of the narrative, ideas about what it means to be human, the nature of reality, and community / individual identities. This is brief guide for readers who would like to employ the techniques to enrich their understanding of the work, as well as of literature in general.

Ralph Waldo Emerson http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8745732797129353409

Ralph Waldo Emerson & the Transcendentalists http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3997527348463289600

Emily Dickinson http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8508305028713043496&pr=goog-sl

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American lyrical poet, and an obsessively private writer -- only seven of her some 1800 poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of 23 and devoted herself in secret into writing. http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/

Wilkie Collins -- The Woman in White http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3790935321534562521&pr=goog-sl

Shakespeare: Othello http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8835567292648925034&q=othello