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This is a collection of my personal favorite wikipedia articles made for the purpose of remembering information I feel relevant (and not cluttering up my internet bookmarks).

Uncategorized and otherwise random favorites located here.

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Music

Billie Holiday - 1930's

Classical

Modern

Dmitri Shostakovich

Art

Styles

Artists

Tamara de Lempicka - 1920's art deco painter - Woman in Green
Thomas Hart Benton (painter). American 1940's
Grant Wood - American Gothic. American 1940's.
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Brian Dettmer - Book Art. Sculpture & Mixed Media.
Francisco Goya
Giorgio de Chirico - Italian surrealist painter
Giovanni Paolo Pannini - 16th cent. Italian painter, architect, set designer.
John French Sloan

Édouard Manet - French impressionist

Joel-Peter Witkin - Dark surreal photographs
Andreas Gursky - Modern photographer
Stephen Shore - American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States.
Diane Arbus

Edward Gorey

Literature

Genres

Cyberpunk
Detective fiction
Hardboiled
Carnivalesque
Grotesque Body
dark romanticism - 19th cent.: Edgar Allan Poe
Modernist Literature

Authors

C. S. Lewis
Jorge Luis Borges - Spanish surrealist writer - The Library of Babel & The Book of Sand
Ralph Waldo Emerson
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Winter Dreams
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Flannery O'Connor
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea - Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway
James Joyce
Jack London - To Build a Fire, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang,
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis, The Trial
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
George Bernard Shaw
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Henry David Thoreau
Gore Vidal
Umberto Eco - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Name of the Rose

Hardboiled Writers

Books

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Anna Karenina
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Divine Comedy by Dante Aligliheri
Great Expectations
On the Road
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Little Boy Blue (novel) by Edward Bunker
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Misc.

Epic Poetry
Gilgamesh
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) by Robert Frost
Iron John by the Brothers Grimm

Alexithymia - difficulty describing feelings to other people.
Anabasis - Greek term that referred to an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country. See Also: Anabasis (Xenophon)
katabasis - Referred to a trip from the interior down to the coast, a military retreat, or descent to the underworld

Theater

Plays

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neil
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg
The Wild Duck
Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
Ubu Roi
The Birthday Party (play) by Harold Pinter
Betrayal (play) by Harold Pinter

Opera

Cavalleria rusticana - Opera by Pietro Mascagni
Faust (opera)
La Boheme by Puccini feat. Quando me n’vò
Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner

Misc.

Philosophy

Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
Allegory of the Cave and Theory of forms in The Republic by Plato
Simulacrum and post-modernism in Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

People

Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, [[]]
Albert Camus - French Existentialist - The Stranger (novel)
Jean-Paul Sartre - French existentialist
Jacques Derrida - French philosopher
Michel Foucault
Paulo Freire - Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy

Concepts

Hyperreality - the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures
Ex nihilo - Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing" in creation
Transcendentalism - 19th cent.
Fatalism
Predestination
Virtue ethics - moral philosophy that emphasizes character, rather than rules or consequences, as the key element of ethical thinking

Psychology

Carl Jung
Edward Bernays
Bruno Bettelheim - The Uses of Enchantment
Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst. Known for the Mirror stage and Name of the Father.

Concepts

Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Mnemonic peg system
Id, ego, and super-ego
Anima and animus
Death drive
psychological projection
Schema (psychology)
unrequited love
obsessive love
Value Theory - understanding how, why, and to what degree humans should or do value things

Conditions

Asperger Syndrome
Savant Syndrome
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Major depressive disorder
folie à deux - ("madness of two") is a psychiatric syndrome shared by two people.
Anhedonia - inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social or sexual interaction

Language & Grammar

Preposition and postposition

Misc.

Principality of Sealand
Doppelgänger - double or look-alike of a person. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
Schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others
Plutocracy - rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth
High-yield debt - Junk Bonds