LangLit WWW

This is the website of a research project based at Lancaster University and St Martin's College, Lancaster, which explores the fifteenth-century York Mystery Plays and their various social, intellectual, religious, and theatrical contexts using multimedia technology.

This site contains resources for students of Old English at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, including texts and exercises, information about Introduction to Old English, the new textbook by the creator of this web site (with a link to the free on-line version), and links to a selection of on-line resources. Students everywhere are invited to make free use of these pages.

Militant esthetix Website is written and edited by Dr Kristi Siegel of Mary Mount College. The site aims to introduce undergraduates to the key terms and ideas of the literary theories that have revolutionised literary studies, particularly in the last 30 years. The site contains entries on every major theory: deconstruction; New Historicism; Lacanian psychoanalysis; New Criticism; Russian Formalism etc. Siegel provides a sketch of the theory - including basic concepts and main thinkers. She then lists the basic texts in the field, as well as providing a bibliography of secondary reading. Links to relevant sites are also provided. This text-based site is fast loading and easy to navigate.

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

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.

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.

arab literature in english translation

This is a bibliography of literary studies, criticism and philology. It consists of c. 5,000 text files (290 Mb of text) listing over 250,000 items (books, book chapters, articles, films, websites, etc.), with a main focus on English-speaking authors and criticism or literary theory written in English, although there are many listings on linguistics, cultural studies, discourse analysis, and other philological subjects. It includes basic bibliographical information on several thousand authors, critical schools, literary and linguistic concepts, and other subjects.

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.