The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is an on-line, searchable compilation and extension of Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1878-1985, Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1985-1991, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1992-1995, including material located since publication of the last printed volume. Most material was obtained and examined by the compiler; the remainder was verified in a reliable secondary source.
This Web page gives access to a comprehensive, year-by-year bibliography of the works of postcolonial critic and public intellectual, Edward Said (1935-2003). Said established his reputation as an groundbreaking critic of Western attitudes to the Orient with his book "Orientalism" (1979). The site references reviews of Said's works, books and special issues of journals about Said, and critical references to Said and his work, from 1964 until 2000.
Il blog di Laura Testoni (Università di Gemova). Refkit sta per "Reference Kit", arnesi da lavoro per i bibliotecari che si occupano del servizio di informazioni bibliografiche, e più in generale dei servizi informativi all'utenza. Ma su Refkit ci occupiamo anche di segnalazioni e memo su biblioteche, archivi e cultura digitale.
VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words.
Anytime you find yourself reading a webpage with words you wish to look-up, try running the page through VoyCabulary and just click on the words
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
Adam Smyth's on-line 'Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682' catalogues 41 poetical miscellanies published during the Civil War and Restoration. Verses are searchable alphabetically by title, first line, last line and author. Description fields also include titles, dates and page references of the miscellanies. The resource compensates for the lack of indices in many of these collections of seventeenth-century verse and provides the opportunity to establish quickly a sense of the predominant themes, topics and verse forms employed by some of the lesser known poets of this period
he Afterlife of Alice in Wonderland was an exhibit of various editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other Alice-related material. The exhibit included the first American edition of the text (D. Appleton, 1866) and other editions of the original text, including a facsimile edition of the original manuscript, Adventures Underground, which includes Lewis Carroll's own illustrations. Other items on display included later editions and illustrated versions of the book, texts that reference Alice, and material, such as an Alice chess set, teacups, album covers, play scripts and dolls, from popular culture. This classic of children's literature shows the popularity of the Alice story as it reverberates through American culture and as it contributes to ideas of American childhood.
Presents biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940. It includes titles of publications and references to archival resources. Directed by Dr. Carole Gerson, this project was supported by SSHRC, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, with substantial research and editing by Carol McIver, Marjory Lang, Deborah Blacklock, Sandra Even, and Katrina Harack. Copyright is held by Carole Gerson.
The Virtual Classroom is intended to introduce A-Level English Literature students to practical criticism. The site was written by Colin Burrow, a member of the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. As well as describing the methods and aims of practical criticism, Burrow offers two practical examples for students to work through, along with a reference section and a literary quiz
Since 1989 Panorama of Russia, an American company, has specialized in non-fiction, predominantly reference and academic publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). These include books, periodicals, CDs, videos, manuscripts, maps, posters, signs, and albums, electronic and other products from academic and commercial publishers. Many of our titles are printed in small amount. The fields we cover are philosophy and religion, government and politics, military and legal affairs, humanities, literary history and criticism, history, social sciences, and much more.
This Web site was founded with the support of the Russian Ministry for Print, Radio and Television, and Mass Communication to serve the needs of anyone who uses the Russian language. It includes several online dictionaries, official documents relating to the Russian language, news, an online journal, discussions, links, and a reference service
This website is a biographical guide to the world of Victorian film. It features 300 biographies of those who, behind and in front of the camera, played a significant part in creating the phenomenon of moving pictures. It is based on the book Who's Who of Victorian Cinema, published by the British Film Institute in 1996. It has been revised throughout, and new entries and background features added, to make the website serve as a reference source to the world of Victorian film and the world as seen through the eyes of the Victorian filmmakers. Victorian film we define as filmmaking in its broadest sense, from the first glimmerings in the 1870s and 80s to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.
hypertext version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768). The text itself is taken from the third and first editions of the book, and laid out as it was in the original print versions. It includes links to secondary and reference materials, placing the text in a non-linear environment in which the user may explore various issues and themes. The web site includes a number of categorised subsections via which the user may broaden his appreciation of the text. These include pages devoted specifically to art, fashion, history, structure, Irishness, language and rhetoric, music, the novel, poetry, and science.
This is the homepage of Dichtung Digital (Digital Fiction), an online newsletter in German devoted to "contributions on digital aesthetics." The site contains annotated links to and commentary on a broad range of electronic literature; hyperfiction; Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature; canonized hypertexts; trans-medial narrative theory; and digital poetry that references prehistoric texts and symbols.
This website provides links and references for the use of corpora, corpus linguistics and corpus analysis in the context of language learning and teaching. It also links to two ongoing research and development projects in which I am involved, the EU MINERVA project SACODEYL (development and pedagogical exploitation of youth language corpora) and the ELISA corpus, which I started to develop at the University of Tübingen (Applied English Linguistics) as a resource for language learning and teaching.
Gideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.