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Gas Perm (Apr 25 2004 02:59 GMT) - It’s been a little too Maudlinville Town Crier around here lately. It’s time to talk about something besides that which cannot be written or how shitty the GOP is or how evil this administration has been. The biggest change in... |
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- From my Correspondent, Sue Stewart: Dear Alan, There are many changes going on here that, I think you've not been made aware of...tell your readers that, Miss Norton is building a apartment on to my house..(sue) and she'll be moving... |
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- The History of Love and Marriage is a web site that was designed to accompany a course of the same title at the University of Leiden. The site is essentially a gateway of web links and bibliographies on a number of historical themes concerned with gender and family in European history. The topics covered are women, femininity and gender, men, masculinity and gender, marriage, family, sexuality, and population and demographic behaviour, and for each there is a selection of web links, book titles and journal information. Also on the site are a number of book reviews on pertinent titles, and a selection of suggested online finding aids for further research. (Institute of Historical Research (IHR)) |
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- The Web Site "Lexicologie du français de la Renaissance (French lexicology of the Renaissance)" is by Russon Wooldridge of the Department of French, University of Toronto. It includes online databases of French marine and botanical terminology used within the Renaissance period. The site is entirely in French and is an excellent resource for those interested in the history of the French language, or Renaissance French. A small collection of online articles by Wooldridge is also available and include the following topics: The Latin and French Vitruve in the dictionaries of Robert Estienne; |
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- The Web site "Société François Villon" is published by Dr Robert Peckham at the University of Tennessee, Martin. It is a comprehensive resource on the 15th-century poet, François Villon, including: editions; translations; biography; |
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- "Solitaire et solidaire : Russell Wilkinson talks to Catherine Camus about Albert Camus' The First Man" is an online interview that appeared in 'Spike' magazine about Albert Camus's last and unfinished, work. It is published in both English and French and discusses the nobel-laureate and his work up until his death in a car crash in 1960. The manuscript was recovered from the wreckage. Famous for The Outsider and The Plague, Camus's last work was deeply autobiographical, painting a moving picture of Algeria. |
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- The Web site "French literary analysis @ globe-gate" has been compiled by David Gatwood at the University of Tennessee at Martin. It is part of a project named GlobeGate, which focuses on online language resources in Japanese, German, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It features an article on an organized analytical description of literary work as a text - known in French as "explication de texte". The author has included links to many Web sites on the subject, which are unfortunately not annotated. There is, however, an extremely limited printed bibliography. |
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- The Web Site "Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poémes" is in English and has been published by Beverley Charles Rowe. It provides a full translation into English of Raymond Queneau's (one of the Oulipo group) work, one hundred million milliards of poems. This amazing feat of poetry consists of ten sonnets published in 1961, on card with each line on a separate strip of card, which meant that any line from any sonnet can be combined with the others, as they all use the same rhyme scheme and rhyme sounds. The author has provided a new translation and presents the sonnets in both English and French, with annotations. It is a great resource, exemplifying the type of literature that benefits from the facilities offered by the Internet. |
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- The Web Site "Améliorez votre orthographe (Improve your orthography)" is aimed at helping people to improve their written French and is entirely in French. It is a simple site that really consists of a list of topics and provides links to the relevant paragraphs further down the page. It is not terribly sophisticated but provides a good reference page for all those struggling with their written French. Common problems encountered in French orthography covered here include: accents; |
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- The Web Site "Study questions for Zola's Germinal" is a revision guide written by Professor Paul Brians in the Department of English, Washington State University. The famous works of Emile Zola (1840-1902) in the "Rougon-Macquart" cycle (1871-1893) illustrated the wretched conditions in which the Parisian working-class existed. Novels such as Nana, Germinal, Thérèse Raquin, and L'Assommoir were an exegesis of Naturalism, a literary movement founded by Zola. His prolific output, including the series La Comédie humaine, as well as his innovative exploration of characters who appeared in several books and developed in a non-linear way assured him a position in the pantheon of great French writers. Made infamous by the Dreyfus affair, Zola died in mysterious circumstances. |
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- The Web Site "Early modern French women writers : a women's studies digitization initiative" is published by the University of Minnesota. The site provides information on the project and its aims, which are primarily for the endeavour "to serve as a research and teaching tool, rather than a major preservation effort". Coverage begins at the start of the fifteenth century and ends with the dawn of the eighteenth century, discussing ten or so writers. Among those featured and afforded biographies are the following: |
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- This Web site offers a detailed introduction to the chanson de geste, the genre of epic narrative poetry from medieval France. The site clearly defines the genre, summaries its origins (written from the 11th to the 13th century), and outlines the transition of the 'chanson' from oral narrative (sung by jongleurs) to written text. The site lists what it claims to be 'all' the known chansons de geste (in alphabetical order), providing additional information (on where the manuscript is held, publication details of different editions, and so on) where possible. The oldest chanson, 'La chanson de Roland', is explored in much greater detail, with history and some textual analysis. A huge bibliography of primary and secondary material related to the chansons de gestre is available, as is a useful glossary of vocabulary common to this epic narrative. |
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- This Web site is designed to support Cambridge University's undergraduate course in French literature, history and thought since 1890. However, all students and teachers of this era will find material of interest on the site. It acts as a good reference guide to French writers and thinkers of this period, offering a bio-bibliographical index of key figures. This index does not pretend to be exhaustive: it represents, moreover, a selection of writers and texts that the site's compilers consider useful for research into 20th Century French thought. |
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- The web site 'aka Kurdistan : a place for collective memory and cultural exchange' is maintained by the photographer Susan Meiselas, and based on her 1997 book about the region: 'Kurdistan, In the Shadow of History'. Kurdistan is the homeland of the Kurdish people of Northern Iraq, although it overlaps national borders, with Kurds also living in parts of Turkey and Iran. The web site is an attempt to document the history of the Kurds, as no official archives or central library exist to perform such a function. |
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- The Ancient India and Iran Trust is based in Cambridge and maintains a library for the benefit of scholars researching the archaeology, architecture, early history, and languages of the Indian Sub-Continent, Iran, and Central Asia. The Trust also houses several photographic archives and is involved in various preservation and digitisation projects. The Trust's web site details the various library collections held at Brooklands House, and provides an online catalogue. The site introduces the Trust's photographic archives, with sample images, and reports on the progress of their digitisation. There are links to major online projects relating to ancient India, Persia, and China, and details of the Trust's publications. |
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- The Armenian Electronic Library is an online collection of writings by Armenians past and present. The site aims to provide information on Armenian history, culture, and religion, with a special section devoted to the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1919, in which over a million Armenians are estimated to have been killed by the government of the 'Young Turks'. At present, most of the content of the site is in Russian, although the emphasis is now on adding texts in Armenian. Users will need to have the appropriate fonts installed to read some of the Armenian pages. The site is divided into several sections. |
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- George Percival Scriven (1854-1940) was an American Army Signal Corps Officer in the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1900, he kept a journal of his experiences during the invasion and occupation of the Philippine island of Bohol. The journal was intended partly as a personal memoir and partly as a draft or notes for a book that he was planning on writing. This web site presents a transcript of Scriven's 100-page notebook, accompanied by images of some of the pages from the original manuscript. The text is illustrated with photographs from other collections held at Duke University. |
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- The Web Site "Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia" is an excellent and extremely comprehensive guide to links to organisations, newspapers, research, governmental resources and other works on the subject of the area of East Europe, Central Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. The site has been compiled by Dr Erik Herron of the University of Kansas, predominantly for use by his undergraduates and for postgraduates. It is an very useful reference site with links organised in tables, under country headings, a brief comment on the site and then an indication as to which langauges are used on the site in question. Of interest to those carrying out research on the countries of these areas. (Wanda Wyporska) |
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- The Digital South Asia Library project (DSAL) assembles information for scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users requiring reference materials about South Asia. It is an international project based at the Association of Research Libraries in Chicago. Featured resources include: dictionaries; historical gazetteers; |
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- This site is devoted to the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington (REECAS). REECAS offers Master's degree and undergraduate major programmes in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. Information on courses from relevant courses in the following fields are listed: Art History ; Comparative Literature ; |
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- Language and Popular Culture in Africa is a web-based project set up by Johannes Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. The main aim of LPCA is to document and further the study of expressions of popular language and culture in Africa. This is accomplished in two ways. First of all, by making available, via the LPCA Text Archives and the Archives of Popular Swahili, texts that express and mediate forms of African popular culture; secondly, by publishing the Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa, which accepts studies of African popular texts. |
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- The Web site, Autores africanos, is a large anthology of work by Lusophone African writers, comprising digital versions of poetry for the most part, but also short stories and extracts from novels written in Portuguese. The site also features a database of concise bio-bibliographical details for the writers featured in the anthology. Both indexes are alphabetically making searching easier. Although limited in terms of the information offered, this site will no doubt be of interest to researched in the field seeking to discover the work of new Lusophone writers. (Shoshannah Holdom) |
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- Safundi, an online journal which aims to publish and distribute comparative pieces of scholarship on South Africa and the United States, was established in 1999 by Andrew Offenburger, an independent scholar. Explaining the aims and history of the journal, Offenburger mentions Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, and states that Safundi was conceived in response to Nelson Mandela's visit to the United States in 1998. Safundi is peer-reviewed, and this online journal publishes quarterly issues and newsletters that may be of interest to scholars of Southern African and North American literature and history. (Lucy Valerie Graham) |
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- This is the African National Congress (ANC) Web page for Nelson Mandela (1918- ), former President of South Africa. The page gives a brief profile, biographical details and also has links to the ANC's Freedom Charter, adopted by the Congress of the People in 1955, and to Mandela's famous address in his defense during the Rivonia Trial of 1964. Imprisoned since 1962 for leaving the country illegally and for inciting protests against the apartheid government, Mandela's sentence was extended to life imprisonment after the Rivonia Trial. He was released from imprisonment on Robben Island in 1990, and became the first democratically elected President of South Africa in 1994. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. |
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- The web site for the Anglo Boer War Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa, catalogues the Boer perspective of the South African War of 1899-1902. The site contains information relating to Boer heros such as General Louis Botha, President Paul Kruger and Emily Hobhouse, the English social worker who travelled to South Africa and became an outspoken critic of the concentration camps used by the British. Given that the Museum is located in Bloemfontein, the heartland of Afrikaner nationalism, the pro-Boer content of the web site is to be expected, but there are some other content-related problems. The content-providers acknowledge that many casualities were not English or Boer and that there were substantial black casualties, but they do not question whether the term "Anglo-Boer War" is adequately representative of the events that took place in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. Furthermore, while the site lists writings about the war, there is no reference to Sol T. |
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- The Africana Digitization Project has made publicly available several rare texts relating to pre-colonial West Africa. The texts may be browsed by title and chapter, or searched via a free-text search engine. The texts are displayed as scalable digital images of each book page. Four of the works included were written before 1700, and have been translated into English by the late Paul Hair. These consist of: |
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- The Web Site "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" is an online version of the account of Olive Gilbert, based on information given by Sojourner Truth and recorded in writing in 1850. The Web site is easy to navigate and is arranged in a linear text form with chapter or section headings differentiated for ease of navigation. The account tells of the famous Sojourner, christened Isabella, daughter of slaves, born between 1797 and 1800. Her story has become one of the most famous accounts of slavery in the USA. Freed in 1828, she had run away, and endured many trials which were common to African and Carribean slaves in the USA and elsewhere. |
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- This History of Ghana is published on the Ghana.co.uk site, which provides a social and cultural forum for the Ghanaian community online. The section on history is narrative, and covers Ghana from ancient times, through colonial rule, to independence in the twentieth century. The chapters featured are Ancient Ghana, Land and People, Tribes, Religion, Pre-Colonial Period, Slave Trade, The Gold Coast, Colonial Rule in Ghana, Indepedence, Ghana 1960-71, Ghana 72-79, and Ghana 1982-87. |
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