Appendix A

Links to resources

 

I. Modes of Discourse

 

A. Britannica online -- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/515228/Sacco-Vanzetti-case

1. Background information on the Sacco-Venzetti trial is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

 

B. “Remarks to the Court” by Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/America/S_V.htm

 

C. “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- text at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/justice-denied-in-massachusetts/

1. Comments on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem can be found at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/justice.htm

 

D. Pictures of the day

1. http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2549&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=11453

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day

 

II. Introduction to The Inferno

 

A. “Great Books: Dante’s Inferno” (Requires registration) -- http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=7BC94FE2-D916-4AE9-9ED6-8DA59C076D64&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

 

B. Quiz (Requires registration)-- http://tools.discoveryeducation.com/quiz/viewQuiz.cfm?guidAssetId=bdec418a-1c7c-4f9d-8cd4-9e336dfe99b0&blnPlayer=true

 

C. Inferno Website (Requires latest Flash plugin): http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/

 

III. Allegory in The Inferno

 

            A. Online text -- http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/

 

            B. Artists’ Rendition of Minos

1. Gustav Dore -- http://www.dornai.com/images/Hell/images/05-047.jpg

2. Suloni Robertson -- http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle2.html

3. William Blake -- http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/blakes_inferno5_minos.htm

 

            C. Myth of Minos

1. http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/minos.html

2. http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Mi-Ni/Minos.html

 

D. Paolo and Francesca background -- http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/

 

E. Stories similar to Francesca’s -- http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml

 

IV. Zen Parables

 

            A. Online text -- http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

 


 

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