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Useful Web Sites
Academic Magazines and JournalsChronicle.com Arts and Letters Daily Literary Researchwwnorton.com
A Students Guide to Research with the WWW
The EServer
Voice of the Shuttle
About: Classic
Literature Electronic Texts
Bibliomania.com
Bartleby.com Literary Fun and Gamesfirstlines.comTest your knowledge of first lines of "Books I Read at Recess," "Periods are for Sissies," "I Saw the Movie," and a dozen other categories. Merriam-Webster's Words from the Lighter Side "Hipsters, Flipsters, and Finger-Poppin' Daddies. Knock me your lobes!" That's Beat for "Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears." The Merriam-Webster dictionary web site also contains a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" in the jive language of the Beats. Word games, American youth slang from the 20s to the 90s, an archive of "cool" words Bohemia Books - Literary Humour & Trivia
An Australian site, Bohemia Books Literary Humour and Trivia, includes
a list of strange book titles: Grow Your Own Hair, A Toddler's Guide
to the Rubber Industry, Teach Yourself Alcoholism. Bohemia Books
has also compiled a list of "Appropriate Author Names" like Motorcycling
for Beginners by Geoff Carless, and A Treatise on Madness
by William Battie, M.D. And on this web page you can find out that Dickens'
David Copperfield was originally titled Mag's Diversions, and
The Great Gatsby was almost called Incident at West Egg.
Poetry
Poets.org
Medieval and Renaissance
Luminarium
Labyrinth
The Online Reference Book for Medieval
Studies
Shakespeare
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet Here's a web site every English major will want to explore: the ultimate Shakespeare web site--or rather, the ultimate guide to the vast array of Shakespeare resources available on the internet. This site is a gold mine for the serious student of Shakespeare. If you want to see a copy of Shakespeare's original will, click on "Primary Document Sources" under the "Life and Times" section. If you're interested in learning more about scholarship on the period, the "Renaissance" section will connect you with links like the Centre for Research in Early English Drama at the University of Toronto, or online journals like Johns Hopkins' ELH. Perhaps you're planning to stage an authentic Shakespearian theater production; if so, you can sign on for "Elizabethan Makeup 101" in the "Life and Times" section. There's even a "Best Sites" section of "Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet," to help you sort it all out. --Diana Postlethwaite
Eighteenth CenturyEighteenth-Century Studies
American LiteratureAmerican Memory: Library
of Congress American Verse Project Research Links to American Women in Literature
LegendsLegends
FilmInternet Movie Data
Base
Calls for PapersUniversity of Pennsylvania Calls for Papers
OthersERIC Online Book Reviews:For reviews of books you’ve heard about and want more information on before buying or borrowing,, Amazon.com is a good place to begin. But here are some good sites that review books and interview authors: BookPage This is a monthly general interest book review which reviews up to 100 books each month, including new fiction, nonfiction, business, children's, audio, and how-to books. Their tone, self-described (and fitting) is “upbeat and literate.” The site has a slick-hip look, and is definitely aimed at a broad reading audience, reviewing John Grisham and Jill Conner Browne alongside Edward Hoagland and Walter Dean Myers. Good interviews, solid reviews. Complete Review
This site, subtitled “A Literary Saloon and Site Review,” currently lists 555 reviews of “ old and new.” Solid information about American and international books with reviews and recommendations, summaries of other media reviews, suggestions for similar books, and links to relevant sites. Online Movie Reviews:ScreenIt: Movie Reviews for
Parents This is one of my favorite sites for movie reviews, because it is for parents to read to try to decided whether a movie is appropriate, and it is REALLY DETAILED. You may not care how many jump scenes, fight scenes, chase scenes or crash scenes are in a movie you are considering, but if you do, this site will tell you. The writers go through each movie scene-by-scene to let you know what kind of language you can expect, how much skin is exposed, what the characters’ attitudes are toward one another and life in general—and that’s just the beginning. My one warning: By the time you finish the review, you’ll almost feel you’ve seen the movie, so read only enough to get a good feel for the things you care about. |
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