Welcome to the Home Page of
Clifton
Snider,
Poet,
Novelist, Literary Critic,
and
Lecturer at
California
State University,
Long
Beach
Photo by Deborah Snider
This site
is designed primarily for my students
and
colleagues, here and around the world.
It is also
meant for any others interested
in my work as
a poet, novelist, and literary critic.
Please visit my page, A Poet Against the War, which has a link to the national web site, Poets Against the War. If you are interested in earning a Peace Studies Certificate at CSULB, contact Dr. Sharon D. Downey, Department of Communication Studies.
Although my scholarly publications and my other academic activities cover the entire Victorian period, I have become something of an expert on Wilde, having designed and taught a seminar on him and published a chapter on The Picture of Dorian Gray in my book, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On, as well as an article in Victorian Newsletter on Wilde's fairy tales. I also have an article called "Oscar Wilde, Queer Addict: Biography and De Profundis," and it has been published in The Wildean, No. 23 (2003), the scholarly journal of the Oscar Wilde Society of the United Kingdom. See the link below for the full-length version of this article. My latest article on Wilde, also published in The Wildean, No. 27 (2005), is a Jungian and Queer interpretation called "Synchronicity and the Trickster in The Importance of Being Earnest." This article has been translated into Russian by Maxim Lenyadin and is in the process of being translated into Albanian. The Russian translation may be accessed at Opus Magnum and at Jung Land.
Here is a
link to a new online journal on Wilde and
his circle.
Click here for
the Oscar Wilde Society.
Some of my
published articles are available on this site in revised forms:
Oscar Wilde, Queer Addict:
Biography and De Profundis.
"On the Loom of Sorrow": Eros and Logos
in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales.
Emily Dickinson and Shamanism: "A
Druidic Difference."
Victorian Trickster: A Jungian Consideration
of Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse.
Also
available are my articles on The Vampire
Archetype in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre,
Psychic Integration in Christina Rossetti's Goblin
Market, and
"Everything is Queer To-day": Lewis
Carroll Through the Jungian Looking-Glass.
To read more about my earlier books of poetry, click on Clifton Snider, Poet.
To read a
sample of my poetry, see "Honey from Heaven," awarded the
"Spotlight" award for January 1999 by The
Poetry Page. My poem, "Le Mont Saint-Michel," is also a
"Spotlight"
winner. See too a poem inspired by the prehistoric cave paintings
of France's Cave of Niaux. See
also
"Mountain Lion" and "My Selena." All of these
links contain poetry from my new book, The Alchemy of Opposites.
Three new poems, "Watts Towers," "Visiting the Cave of Pech-Merle," and "Family Bones," have been published in the Arabesques Review. See below for additional links to my poetry and a short story.
For those who would like to learn more about my professional life, link to my Curriculum Vitae.
I can be
e-mailed at csnider@csulb.edu.
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In addition to Queer Theory, my principal critical approach to literature has been the psychology of C. G. Jung. For more information on Jung, see my Brief Outline on Jung and click on C. G. Jung.
For the syllabi for my classes, click on the following:Here are some other links you may find useful in literature classes: W. H. Auden (see also above); Joseph Conrad; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf.
Click here for the Correction Signs I use to mark papers and for information about the Book and Film Reviews for English 100, the Book List and the Film List. Also available is information about the Letter to the Editor, the Argument Paper, and the Research Paper. Click here to find a site that will give you information about MLA Style.
You may also wish to link to Gay and Lesbian Studies at the University of Chicago, as well as Literary Criticism on the Web.
To see examples of the Jungian/archetypal approach, link to my articles listed above. In all the articles, except that on the Brontë sisters, you will find applications of Gay and Lesbian (also called Queer) Criticism. For an archetypal paper that is not specifically Jungian, see my essay on James Dickey's Deliverance.
To see an example of New Criticism, link to Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish."
To see an example of Reader-Response Criticism, see my essay on "Addiction in John Cheever's 'The Enormous Radio'."
For those students who need extra help with
writing, here is a link to the Writer's
Resource Lab.
And here are links to the University Library , The Comparative Literature and Classics Department, and The English Department at CSULB.
To find the page for CSULB Enrollment
Services, click here.
See also these pages:
New Age.
Native Themes in Poetry and Art.
The Shalako in Poetry and Art.
"St. Anthony's Church" (poem).
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