Advanced Module C

Representation and Text

Elective: Conflicting Perspectives

Text: Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

• the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes

• a dedicated website: http://www.earth-moon.org/

• a dedicated website with links: http://ann.skea.com/THHome.htm

The poetry

• a comprehensive list of criticism: http://www.ted-hughes.net/criticism.html

Fullbright Scolars

• from Google books:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=

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http://books.google.com.au/books?id=a9gOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg

=PA14&dq=:Ted+Hughes22+22Fulbright+Scholars22+criticism&source=bl&ots

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• a specialised look at magic and the cabbala in Hughes poetry: http://www.zeta.org.au/~annskea/BLCabala.htm

• an essay: http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSE/article/

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The Shot

• Analysis of the 'crows' poems: http://ftp.ccccd.edu/Andrade/britlit/hughes/hcrit.htm

The Minotaur

• The use of Cretan mythology: http://www.scribd.com/doc/5284192/Ted-Hughes-and-the-Uses-of-Cretan-Mythology-in-Birthday-Letters-

• from Google books:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=C6Ht0LsZZIIC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=:Ted+Hughes

%22+%22The+minotaur%22+criticism&source=bl&ots=XCbQbQZBh9&sig=XJDnRUpgxVUD1khoQ

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F5KIkQWu5oH3Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9

• the minotaur in mythology and literature: http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Minotaur

Sam

• an interview: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-whispers-of-immortality-1184772.html

• an essay: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_scholarship/v098/98.1helle.pdf

Your Paris

• a useful bibliography: http://www.ted-hughes.net/criticism.html#emory_one

Red

• An essay: http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Ted_Hughes/sort_poems_alphabetically