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- Heliotropia is a peer-reviewed online journal which focuses on research and the interpretation of Boccaccio's extensive works. English and Italian languge university students as well as Boccaccio scholars will find this forum extremely useful. The online journal does not require a subscription and is well laid out and easy to navigate. The specific links lead to sections concerning book reviews, new interpretations of Boccaccio's works including feminist readings, bibliographies, theses, past articles and reviews, links to external sites dealing with further research on Boccaccio and many more. Heliotropia has a wide-ranging scope, not limiting itself to classical and traditional ( Italian) views of Boccaccio's works but encouraging postmodern, current, feminist and postcolonial interpretations. |
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- This site, created by the Università di Parma's Language Department is an online resource dedicated to British Gothic drama and its various manifestations between 1768 –the year of composition of the first Gothic tragedy, Horace Walpole's 'The Mysterious Mother'- and the later, pre-Victorian, culture of the 1820s and 30s. The website includes links to critical bibliographies; other internet resources; teaching and study aids; a virtual bookshelf with information in Italian and English; |
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- Carlo Furia provides this online resource for studies of Dante Aleghieri. This site will be of interest to Dante scholars as well as those interested in Italian and English history and the medieval culture. The website is divided into seven main sections: Why Dante which explains Furia's belief that Dante's works are fine examples of 'greatness'; His Time which explores Dante's background and the history of Italy; |
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- Riccardo Scateni provides this online resource for Italian literature. Completely in Italian this page will be of interest to Italian language and Italian literature students. The resource includes links to works by authors such as: Dante, Boccaccio, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Edmondo De Amicis, Grazia Deledda, Ugo Foscolo, Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi, Giovanni Verga, Guido Gozzano, Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni. There are also links to 'narrativa per ragazzi' (narratives for children) like Pinocchio. |
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- New York State University Library's website provides this amazing collection of Italian literature. This will be of interest to both Italian language and Italian literature students. The home-page is divided into chronological order: Origins and Duecento; Trecento, Quattrocento, Cinquecento, Seicento, Settecento, Ottocento and up to the Novecento with each of these times linking to authors of the day and their works. |
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- This is the Web site of the Canadian Journal of Communications, a University of Calgary publication. The journal is available by subscription and features articles on subjects as diverse as: communication theory; TV and identity; information deficit; |
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- This is the Web site of the Electronic Journal of Sociology, an elegant online journal from the Texas Tech University. The site contains full texts of articles, including abstracts, as well as information about submissions, events and other resources. Recent articles include the following: Becoming a Man - The Views and Experiences of Some Second Generation Australian Males; Masculinity and Crime: |
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Snow White (Dec 06 2003 03:45 GMT) - This website is the result of Professor Kay E. Vandergrift's aim to share ideas and information with all levels of students and teachers interested in literature for children and young adults. Vandergrift sees the Snow White web page as an academic resource to all those involved in research and reading of specifially the fairy tale, Snow White. She has designed it as a teaching tool which brings together her important triad of contemporary literary theory, current research and teaching. The website includes a large number of resources ranging from a hypertext version of Snow White with 36 alternative editions, a section to view illustrations from Snow White, another link to examine other media like films, videos and recordings of Snow White, a Context section which leads to information on critical studies of Snow White, the Issue section which examines morality, feminism, Disney adaptions and the nature of goodness portrayed in Snow White to name just a few of the links. |
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- This is a full-text online journal. As the title, Poetics, suggests this site is mainly a guide to contemporary theories of poetry which poetry students at both secondary school and university level will find of interest. The three editors, all Canadian, encourage the focus on diversity of voices, styles, practices and politics. This online journal provides a forum for a dialogue about poetics where users of the site can e-mail the editors with questions, manifestos, conversations and more. Poetics. |
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- This online site which began as Brian Stefans' personal website has grown to focus only on how digital technology has affected the study and research in the field of experimental poetry, providing a good overall background for A-Level students, university students and perhaps even secondary school teachers. The online journal questions whether digital technology has been able to expand poetic techniques. Some of the techniques researched are interactivity, algorithmic processes and digital typefaces. Brian Stefans also wonders whether the internet will ever replace traditional print text, both critical and fictional. Although the links change regularly Stefans keeps a selection of hyperfictions, hyperpoems and criticism as well as links to his own web writing. |
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- This online site is created and maintained by the poet John Cayley. Together with his home page this website is dedicated to exploring current work in 'machine modulated poetry'. This website is an excellent starting point for undergraduate and graduate university students as well as teachers looking for an indepth background to machine modulated poetry as well as strong critical resources. John Cayley has been developing this technique since the late 1970s and hope that this site provides an introduction to poetry and hypermedia students as well as adding to the growing body of literature concerning these studies. John Cayley provides links to all his web writings including some well known articles such as: |
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- Mudlark, the online poetry journal created by university teacher William Slaughter, provides free access to contemporary poetry and theory. Students of contemporary poetry and literature as well as those hoping to learn more about what poets' themselves say of their practices will find this collection of interest. Mudlark's editor enthusiastically pronouces that Mudlark is published frequently but irregularly so readers are encouraged to check the site often. This resource is divided into three major sections, one inludes links to each journal issue (focusing on work by one particular poet like Jeffery Little, R.D. |
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- The Scottish Storytelling Centre is Scotland's national charity for storytelling. This website will be of interest to English literature students in primary, secondary and undergraduate levels. The Scottish Storytelling Centre's main aim is 'inclusion' and offers training and support for professional and volunteer storytellers. The Centre stresses the importance of storytelling saying, 'the art of live storytelling has ancient roots. It has flourished in Scotland over centuries and is enjoying a contemporary renaissance. |
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- Scott Kelinman of California State University (Northridge) provides this online resource which teaches the development of the English Language. Meant primarily for his undergraduate English language students, The History of the English Language website will be of interest to any English Language student. The site, created in 2001, is divided into five sections covering Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English (two sections), and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English. Each section includes four exercises examining translation, understanding of metre, textual transmission, transcription, editorial changes, spelling and punctuation, and dialect. The modern English exercises include examples from Leeds, the Appalachian region of the southern United States, Afro-American (Black idiom), and Cameroonian Pidgin. |
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- This site created by Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price, two long-standing scholars of Whalt Whitman, provides an online resource guide for students, (mainly at the university level), of Whitman. Their aim is to produce a scholarly edition of Whitman's works (and critical sources) on the internet. Folsom and Price both believe Whitman's work 'defies the constraints of the book' and they see it as constantly being revised and 'always in flux'. The editor's goal is to create a dynamic site that will grow and change over the years just as Whitman's work has done. The website provides a plethora of valuable resources for English students ranging from: |
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Hyperizons (Dec 06 2003 03:45 GMT) - Hyperizons is an online site created by fiction writer, Michael Shumate. This website has a substantial amount of information for hypertext scholars. University students and graduate students can find critical resources here and secondary school students can begin their love of hypertext with Shumate's selection of hypertext fiction. Although difficult to define, Shumate sees hypertext fiction as hyperfiction, interactive fiction and nonlinear fiction. He argues that it is a new art form that embraces new possibilities with the advent of computer technologies. |
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- Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine provides new technology students at A-level or undergraduate university stage who are interested in computer mediated communication with an informative resource which also includes research on information technology, knowledge management and e-business. The online magazine began as a monthly online magazine and is now updated on an as-and-when basis ensuring the latest information and rapidly changing subjects is available. Previous articles and reports on people, public policy, culture, practices, human communication and more, are still available in the online archive. The website is arranged in columns, much like a newspaper, with links to: Free-lance work, current affairs such as American senator Tom Carper and his quest to obtain money from customers of the internet, Emerging Technical News like and article on 'Software that waxes sublime and subliminal', Knowledge Management Article and Issues, Security News, Internet Intelligence Report and News and many other links. |
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- The online site of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia is designed to offer university students and teachers of all things 'hyper' a forum for research assistance. The website provides information on the theories behind hypermedia which includes hypertext, interactive fiction, interactive games and all forms of multimedia. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia is a peer reviewed journal. Although a subscription is needed to access the online version, most university libraries are subscribers. Without a subscription users are free to view the contents of current and archived journals as well as abstracts of individual articles. |
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- The Hypertext Kitchen website vows to 'connect hypertext people. Readers, writers, scientists, developers: everone who needs to stay in touch with the future of writing'. The website's mission statement demonstrates its support to all students of writing. The website is maintained by writer Mark Bernstein and is sponsered by Eastgate, another hypertext publisher. |
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- Jutta Degener, a graduate in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin, provides this online resource for web writing. Degener's site will be of use to beginner hypertext students and those looking for a succint breakdown of the basics of writing online. This guide includes sections dedicated to: problems associated with writing hypertext copy (Degener says it boils down to links and emotions which are the pitfalls); Editing and Publishing (she reminds writers to be accurate and that writing online is really about constant editing as things are always in flux); |
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- Andy Blunden, recently retired from the University of Melbourne, has created this website on Hegel in hopes of helping students 'understand him'. Since this online resource offers a good introduction even beginner students should find this a helpful site. This is a very thorough website which includes links to full-text versions of some of Hegel's works such as 'German Constitution', 'Phenomenology', 'Philosophy of Nature' and more; other links lead to introductions written by Hegel; writing by Engels about Hegel, writing by Marx about Hegel and access to critical reference and analysis about Hegel's beliefs and writings. |
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- The Medieval Bestiary is an attempt by an independent scholar (David Badke) to assemble a database of information about the medieval bestiary, its antecedents, and the medieval view of animals. Whilst much of the site is under construction, useful aspects include a list of manuscripts by institution and shelf-mark (for each there is a brief description and bibliography), and an alphabetical listing of animal names together with a brief description of their attributes and a representative image. The site also offers a small selection of full text (PDF) articles and digital copies of: The Bestiary of Philippe de Thaon (Cotton Nero A V, ff 41r-82v. Edited by Thomas Wright, 1841); |
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- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement is an online collection of digitised primary sources on the late twentieth century feminist movement in the United States. The documents have been taken from Duke University's Special Collections Library and are concerned particularly with the radical origins of the Women's movement. There are over 50 transcribed documents available and these can be searched by keyword or browsed under a number of headings. These are general and theoretical, medical and reproductive rights, music, organisations and activism, sexuality and lesbian feminism, socialist feminism, women of colour, and women's work and roles. (Institute of Historical Research (IHR)) |
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- Documenting a Democracy is an online exhibition that traces the development of Australian democracy through key constitutional documents. Published by the National Archives of Australia in partnership with the country's eight governments, the site offers a comprehensive introduction to Australia's constitutional history, from 1768-1995. The site can be navigated in a number of ways, and probably the best of these is to follow the pathways section, where digitised documents are arranged according to four topics, foundation, building, freedom, and land. Alternatively users can follow links from the timeline, or click on the map of Australia to access documents specific to the individual states. There is also a stylish picture gallery, which links historical photographs with documents. |
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- Nothing about this speaks well for the nation's most unquestionably prominent institution of higher learning. First of all, it would be nice if the article actually told us what the speech was about. Second, some of the students' are silly enough to |
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- Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane has drawn the ire of Bangladeshi leaders for portraying their community as "uneducated." Kwame Kwei-Armah, a black playwright, says minority writers must tell the truth about their communities. Writer Kwame Kwei-Armah told BBC Radio 4's Today that black or Asian writers had a duty to balance their art with a positive view of their communities. "But it is in the telling of truth that you will find it," he said. In a debate with the black novelist Diran Adebayo, Kwame - who is also a castmember of BBC drama Casualty - said: |
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