The "Archive for New Poetry" website is hosted by the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, and contains an extensive research collection of resources relating to American poetry and poetics in the period after 1945. The archive aims to represent experimental writing and alternative approaches to writing in English, and focuses on the "New American" poets, the Black Mountain poets, the Objectivist movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, and the language writers. writers represented in the Archive include Paul Blackburn, Jackson Mac Low, Carl Rakosi, Clayton Eshleman, and Lew Welch.
Dal portale CASA dell'EST, dedicato allo scambio tra cultura spagnola e catalana e culture dell'Est Europa la banca dati bibliografica gratuita WRITERS' VOICES: ENCOUNTERS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE è una risorsa interessante per gli scambi culturali tra Spagna e culture dell'Est Europa. Sul sito una inconsueta selezione di fonti informative sulle traduzioni e traduttori con idee nuove per tesi insolite
The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century
Digital resource of The Schomburg Center, part of The New York Public Library. It consists of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. These include books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text searchable database, subjects written about include family, religion, and slavery. There are additional research resources presented alongside the database.
A database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library. It includes biographies, bibliographies, contemporary reviews and memoirs, images, synopses and keyword descriptions of texts, as well as new criticism and contextual material. CW3 has been created by the Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board of Great Britain. CW3 is also an on-line scholarly journal, with an editorial board of leading specialists.
The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers. The result of a partnership between the New York Public Library and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, in cooperation with Oxford's Bodleian Library, the S-GA also includes key contributions from the Huntington Library, the British Library, and the Houghton Library. In total, these partner libraries contain over 90% of all known relevant manuscripts. The site is currently in Beta release and works best when viewed in Chrome.
This index lists, and links to, articles, essays, conference papers and other material on Scottish literature and language available free on-line. In the index, articles are listed by author, and by subject or title. The names of authors of articles are in CAPITALS. Subjects of articles (including names of writers) are in bold. Bulleted items are written by the same author(s), or about the same subject, as the entries they follow. The first link in an entry is to the text of the paper. The second link is to the journal or conference page where the paper was published or presented. Some links lead to other sites; these will open in a new window.You can search the index using the Find function (under the Edit menu). If you have trouble connecting to any of these papers, or if you would like to recommend a link, please contact ASLS.
RECIT is a network of European literary translation centres offering residencies for translators and organising events bringing together writers & translators.
a cultural theory and media literacy web site maintained by Douglas Bicket. The website will be useful to English studies students specialising in media, modern fiction, feminist studies, theory of literature and narrative, postmodernism, marxism or experimental and internet fiction. This site offers an introduction and indepth information on theorists related to any of the above fields. Some of the well-known writers include: Barthes, Baudrillard, Chomsky, Derrida, Deleuze, Eagleton, Fiske, Foucault, Gibson, Gramsci, Landow, Lyotard, Plato and Turkle to name but a few. This website also provides links to assorted background information ranging in topics from artificial intelligence, Blade Runner, Judith Butler, cyberculture, cyborgs, discourse analysis, existentialism, Fordism, feminist theory, hyperreality and much much more
an independent web resource dedicated to the dissemination of information about literature (fiction, drama and poetry) written by Spanish women. The site is divided into two sections: the first is a 'magazine' that offers regularly updated news of publications by Spanish women, reviews, interviews, events, literary prizes, book fairs and signings. There are links within the magazine to websites of specific publishers and authors where appropriate, and to other websites that may be of interest. The magazine invites and publishes reader comments about its articles, and the user may also access an archive of material. The second section is a unique, extensive index of 20th Century Spanish women writers, offering biographical and bibliographical details.
Banca dati a cura del University of Mississippi English Department copre autori noti e meno noti dal 18° sec. ai giorni nostri, tra cui William Faulkner, John Armistead, Frederick Barthelme, John Grisham, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty
Inspired by the hunger for books on Jewish subjects written in a lively, intelligent, and popular manner, Nextbook Press's Jewish Encounters Series brings together writers of the first rank with people and ideas and events from the Jewish past. The series, under the general editorship of Jonathan Rosen, is a collaboration between Nextbook Inc., devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and ideas, and Schocken, with its storied backlist of Jewish classics. It is a sister organization to Tablet magazine.
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
The Olive Schreiner Letters Project is funded by the ESRC. It will transcribe, analyse and publish the complete extant Olive Schreiner letters presently in archival locations world-wide. Through this, it will also contribute theoretically and methodologically to the use of letters and other epistolary materials in social science and humanities research. The feminist and socialist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was one of the most important - and radical social commentators of her day.
BBC journalist Armando Iannucci presents a personal argument in praise of the genius of Charles Dickens. Through the prism of the author's most autobiographical novel, David Copperfield, Armando looks beyond Dickens - the national institution - and instead explores the qualities of Dickens's work which still make him one of the best British writers.
The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction numbers over a thousand titles. Focusing on English writers and imprints, it is unique in its coverage of minor authors writing in this genre and in its holdings of original and subsequent editions of their works. Although its holdings consist mainly of English imprints issued from 1765 to 1830, it also contains American, French, and German editions dating from this time period.
Transformations is a searchable database of works by contemporary writers who use traditional texts for their subject matter; in particular, the collection focuses on works based on mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, and Shakespeare. This database has been created and is maintained by Professor Elise Earthman of the English Department at San Francisco State University.
A website dedicated to the study of the life and work of the foremost Welsh female poet and hymn-writer, Ann Griffiths (1776-1805). The website contains an introduction to her life and work, the text of her hymns and letters with English translations, and online access to digitised versions of a wide cross-section of printed and manuscript material relating to Ann Griffiths. The website is edited by Dr E Wyn James of the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, an acknowledged expert on Ann Griffiths and Welsh hymnology.