LangLit WWW

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

an on-line anthology makes available modern-spelling editions of the more obscure Tudor poems which are usually left out of standard anthologies.

An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World

'Canadian Poetry Online' is an online guide provided by the University of Toronto Library. The site is divided into contemporary and 19th-century Canadian poets.

Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.

a site where artists living in exile in the UK and Europe can perform, publish and have access to training. The site is motivated by the belief that the communication and culture arising out of exile through literature and art can become both a focus for willing integration of ideas and peoples and a force for positive change

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

This Web site, edited by Dr Jan Christoph Meister of Hamburg University, aims to be a focal point for international scholars working in the field of narrative theory. The site is divided into a number of sections: projects - links to narratology projects throughout the world; a contact list of narratology researchers; information about joining the site's mail list; links to various bibliographies relating to the field; an archive of articles; links to other narratology sites.

This Web site contains a doctoral thesis on second-person narrative. Dennis Schofield's text is entitled: 'The Second Person: A Point of View? The Function of the Second-Person Pronoun in Narrative Prose Fiction'. The work explores how analyses of specifically second-person storytelling might challenge the (Cartesian) assumptions of much narrative theory.

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

Sito web del centro di ricerca fondato dallo Arts and Humanities Research Board nel luglio del 2002 ambisce ad essere un punto di riferimento per i progetti di editoria digitale nel campo delle biografie storiche, corrispondenza, diari e altre opere del periodo tra il 1500 e il 1800

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.

a free online bibliographic book by librarian Linnea Hendrickson. Her bibliography is annotated, is focussed on the 20th century, and the content can be accessed by a variety of methods including author, subject or theme

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

The Marxists Internet Archive (MIA, http://www.marxists.org/) is an all-volunteer, non-profit public library, started more than 20 years ago in 1990. In 2006, MIA averaged 1.1 million visitors per month, downloading 15.5 million files per month. This represents a 25% increase in visitors since 2005, and a 380% increase in visitors since 2000.