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This is the Web site of Literature Compass, a new literature resource from Blackwell Publishing. The site is designed to give students and teachers access to the bewildering range of perspectives on literature from the Medieval period to the present. The site, therefore, carries short, sometimes polemical, articles that attempt to both analyse a specific text and provide readers with an insight into new developments in the field.The site is subscription-based, but a generous sample of what is available can be browsed.

a site is devoted to photography in literature. It is likely to be of interest to researchers in history and media studies, as well as literature. It does not feature only photographs related to literature, but also reference to photography in literature

Wales Literature Exchange works to facilitate the translation of Wales' literature. Translation grants are available to publishers. We participate in international book fairs, and work with translators, publishers and festivals abroad to promote the literature and writers of Wales internationally

A website devoted to the study of children's literature in Italy hosted by the Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere - Sezione di Anglistica. This website stems from the work of a group of Italian scholars and friends who have been addressing the subject of children's literature from within the field of English Studies, albeit from a wide range of methodological perspectives (cultural and gender studies, visual studies, film studies...). First launched in 2007 under the aegis of the British Consulate-General, Milan, the British Council and the International Research Society on Children's Literature, nowadays the website is active once again thanks to the cooperation of the Universities of Foggia, Padua, Salerno, Venice and Milan.

BLLDB ist die Onlineversion der "Bibliography of Linguistic Literature / Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur (BLL)". Damit steht eine der wichtigsten bibliographischen Informationsquellen für die allgemeine Linguistik mit ihren verschiedenen Teilbereichen und Nachbardisziplinen sowie der anglistischen, germanistischen und romanistischen Sprachwissenschaft im Internet zur Verfügung. In geringerem Umfang werden außerdem Veröffentlichungen zu anderen Sprachen behandelt. BLLDB verzeichnet Monographien, Dissertationen, Manuskripte, Aufsätze aus Zeitschriften, Rezensionen in Auswahl, Beiträge aus Sammelwerken, Festschriften, Kongress- und Institutsberichten etc.

The Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center (MCLC) is a vast online resource guide listing English and Chinese language Web-based and printed material dealing with literature, film, art, and media culture in recent Chinese history.

AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. It is the culmination of over forty years of Africana research. The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Africana Periodical Literature) and African Women's literature (African Women). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa). In June 2012 two bibliographies were added, one on Islam in Africa, compiled by Paul Schrijver, the other on the Kenya Coast, compiled by Jan Hoorweg. In July 2014 Water and Africa was added. Followed in September 2017 by Education in Africa.

a free full-text ebook, originally published by The University of Georgia Press in 1986. This 190-page book has been placed online by the author, Zohar Shavit of Tel Aviv University. The book explores the historical emergence of our contemporary frameworks of childhood, the adult investments that were then made in these, and the ways in which this complex process might be understood through examining the emergence and development of children's literature in relation to adult literature

This is the website of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, a cultural studies journal that covers media, literature, and visual and material cultures from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The website offers users a text-based introduction to the aims and policies of the journal, displays a catalogue of back issues, and provides information on contributing to future issues.

an online bibliographical resource of secondary works on children's literature. It has been compiled by Alan Rauch, an academic at the University of North Carolina. The bibliography includes books and specialist journals, and is not annotated. Most of the entries deal with the historical aspects of children's books, although some deal with theoretical issues. This site will be of interest primarily to researchers of children's literature.

This project brings together transitory pieces of popular literature: portable, forgettable, ephemeral and tossable. These objects have been undervalued for too long, and should be regarded as markers of both literary and popular culture. The website provides a taxonomy of the genres of popular literature, and investigates what makes each genre what it is. By navigating through the categories presented, we can recognize and come to understand what ordinary people are reading as they move through their daily lives.

A Web Companion to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8 th Edition. Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for The Norton Anthology of English Literature offers twenty-seven topics for study and discussion.

The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL) was founded in 1962 to acquaint foreign readers with the best of modern Hebrew literature.

Three Percent launched in the summer of 2007 with the lofty goal of becoming a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature. The motivating force behind the website is the view that reading literature from other countries is vital to maintaining a vibrant book culture and to increasing the exchange of ideas among cultures

The Chinese Text Initiative was set up by The University of Virginia Library in order to make Chinese literature available and easily accessible online. From a series of links on the main page of the website, users can navigate to a series of 'mini-sites' (some more extensive than others), including: 300 Tang poems; Gao Yao Yan; poetry of Yu Xuanji; Shi Jing (Book of Odes); Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber); Lienu Zhuan (Tales of Exemplary Women); and Chinese Literature in Translation

The Web Site "Scottish Bibliographies Online Catalogue" presents information on and links to the following bibliographies: Bibliography of Scotland (BOS); Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG); Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT); Bibliography of the Scots Language (BOSLAN); Union Catalogue of Art Books in Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS); US and Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Scottish Libraries; Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI); and Scottish Books 1505-1640. As such this is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying Scots language, Scottish history, literature, and culture. It is useful for international scholars wishing to locate particular works or editions of works. The databases can be searched by subject, author or keyword, and there is a facility for a cross search.

eine Serviceeinrichtung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Sammeln und Aufbereiten von Literatur zur Frauen-, feministischen und Geschlechterforschung, Sichtbarmachen des historischen Bestandes, Erstellen einer Datenbank über unselbständige Literatur, Beraten bei und Durchführen von Recherchen

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature. The journal, which began publication as Romanticism on the Net in February 1996, is published four times a year. It expanded its scope in August 2007 to include Victorian literature

Anemi is primarily a bibliographic database about Greek Modern literature. However, this website also contains full-text editions of some books and periodicals (about 600 at the time of review) and the collections included in the database include many works regarding Greek and Byzantine culture. The available collections are: Neoellinistis; the Greek Digital Bibliography 1476-1900; rare collections from the Library of University of Crete (including travel literature); the Markos Mousouros collection; the Library of the Educational Association of Adrianoupolis; the Goettinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum collection; the University of Ioannina collection; Gallica; Hellinomnimon; and works digitised by Google. Most works in the database are in Greek, but other languages (primarily French, Italian and German) are also represented

Anglistik Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant Internet resources on Anglo-American language and literature. The guide is part of the Literature section in the Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture (VLib-AAC