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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.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation.

an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors or the java navigation page. All of the sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work

BookSpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. From the site, quickly and easily find bestseller lists, book awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and much more.

This Web site created by the Institute of the Russian Language (Russian Academy of Sciences) is a unique primary source for all those involved in Russian language studies. It contains interactive dictionaries and reference literature

RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources in Ireland. You can use this web-site to search and browse information about the wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives across the region. The Directory consists of comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences recording details of content, location, format, and access. Links to institutions' on-line catalogues and other digital resources are provided where appropriate

An introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites

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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.

a Web site devoted to research into the linguistics of European languages, with particular emphasis on linguistics and cultural history; language systems; sociology of language; language politics; and international communication

The Germanic Lexicon Project (formerly the Indo-European Language resources page) is an online collection of lexicons of the early Germanic languages. The Web site provides free access to an impressive number of copyright-expired language reference publications related to these language, either as digitized texts (encoded using HTML or XML) or as scanned page images. The project is ongoing, and the site's author invites users to participate in the digitization process by correcting individual pages (full instructions on how to participate are provided): consequently, the project is developing into an important international collaboration. The grammars, dictionaries, glossaries and readers available at the time of cataloguing, in various forms, covered the following languages: Gothic; Anglo-Saxon; Old and Middle High German; Old Saxon, Old Frisian; and Old Norse. Resources for the linguistic study of Latin, Old Irish and Tocharian are also available. Background information for each publ

The Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen's own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections. Unlike the famous printed novels, all published in a short span between 1811 and 1818, these manuscripts trace Jane Austen's development as a writer from childhood to the year of her death; that is, from 1787 (aged 11 or 12) to 1817 (aged 41). Not only do they provide a unique visual record of her imagination from her teenage experiments to her last unfinished writings, these pages represent one of the earliest collections of creative writings in the author's hand to survive for a British novelist.

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La banca dati è disponibile via web da tutti i pc appartenenti al dominio dell'Università di Parma per un unico utente simultaneo. E' il più completo repertorio bibliografico elettronico sulla letteratura spagnola con un indice di riferimenti bibliografici delle opere uscite su monografie e periodici pubblicate in Spagna e all'estero a partire dal 1980.

This Web site, from the Trésor de la langue française au Québec, provides a freely accessible, online database of the linguistic differences throughout the francophone world. Countries and regions featured here include Belgium; Burundi; Louisiana; Morocco; Quebec; and Switzerland. Users may conduct simple or complex searches for particular words, or browse through the region-specific 'dictionaries'.

The oldest slang dictionary on the web, more than 23,000 real definitions for over 16,000 slang words and phrases from TV shows, movies, news publications, and other sources

Intute is a free online service that helps you to find web resources for your studies and research. With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. We have reviewed and evaluated thousands of resources to help you choose key websites in your subject. The Virtual Training Suite can also help you develop your Internet research skills through tutorials written by lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK.

Scott W. Williams is a Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Under the name 'Big Mouff', he provides links to a number of his web pages relating to black American writers of novels, poetry, and science fiction. These include substantial individual sites on Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker and Chester Himes, and more limited pages on other writers such as Lucille Clifton and Audre Lorde