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- “There was never a woman like Gilda!” Because I was off from work last night (and believe me, if my employers could find a loophole that would allow them to work me seven days a week without having to pay overtime, they would) I grabbed the opportunity to get caught up with a few outside projects that I had been putting off for some time now. Having finished those, I decided to reward myself with some DVD time, so I selected a couple of movies from the oeuvre of actor Glenn Ford. |
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- Just once. Seeing them in july though m/ |
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- This website is an excellent, monolingual Portuguese dictionary. It holds over 95,000 entries and numerous other features that will assist the student of Portuguese. These include: the conjugation of over 13,000 verbs; a good guide to the essentials of Portuguese grammar; |
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- This website, by Brazilian Portuguese teacher, Sonia Celagatti Althoff, is a useful resource for those beginning to study Portuguese since it acts as a reference guide for the essentials of the language. It explains Portuguese pronunciation in detail , taking into account the alphabet, regional variations, and accents in Portuguese writing; sounds files are available for the alphabet. Basic grammar is covered in some detail, with examples to illustrate each point and common areas of difficulty highlighted. For the beginner, there is a list of common phrases useful when travelling to a lusophone country, and a list of proverbs. |
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- The website, Memória Viva, is devoted to Brazilian arts and culture, and provides information on some of Brazil's best-known figures from across the centuries. For each figure, famous for their work in, for example, music, literature, art, and the theatre, the user may access pages which contain combinations of the following: a biography, a chronology, interviews, and samples of their work (for example, anthologies of poetry or sound files of their music, accessible with RealPlayer). Some of the artists, poets, actors, musicians, and politicians who appear on Memória Viva include: Gregório de Matos; |
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- This is the website for the Projeto Memória de Leitura, an interdisciplinary project to investigate different aspects of reading, with particular emphasis on the history of reading in Brazil. It makes available online various documents and literary works (poems or prose extracts) related to this theme from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. These texts examine such areas as: aspects of teaching and learning learning in general; censorship; |
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- This website aims to make available to both university students and lecturers quality material in Portuguese for learning and teaching. Although compiled with the Brazilian student in mind, there is a wealth of material on this site which will interest those studying and teaching Portuguese in the UK, and who have a particular interest in Brazil. Available on the site is a small selection of audio books (RealPlayer is required), including titles by Machado de Assis and José de Alencar. Additionally, the full-text of a much wider selection of classic novels is available electronically (in PDF or HTML format) on the site. More audio material is provided in the 'Vozoteca': |
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- This is the website of the digital National Library of Portugal, which makes available online a good selection of classic texts in Portuguese. Original works, created by the Biblioteca Nacional, and converted into digital form are categorised as 'authors and personalities' and 'other themes'. The former includes vast documentation related to, amongst others, Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós, Vitorino Nemésio, and Pedro Nunes. This documentation comprises biographies, electronic versions of works, chronologies, and other curiosities. 'Other themes' features individual web pages devoted to, for example, journeys of Portuguese explorers, the new Lusitania (a cartography of Brazil), and 'the Science of Design' which presents the Library's collection of codices. |
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- The database, MedDB, is designed to assist all students and researchers of medieval Iberian literature. It is the online version of the two-volume publication, 'Lírica Profana Galego-Portuguesa', containing a complete corpus of medieval 'cantigas', together with biographical study, rhetorical analysis and bibliography. The database is divided into two sections: the full-text of the cantigas and biographical study of the troubadours. User registration (but no fee) is required to access the database. |
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- This is the website for the Academia Brasileira de Letras, which will be of interest to students and researchers involved in Luso-Brazilian studies. The site is vast and contains a range of material of note. As well as a detailed history about the Academy and its foundation, users may search a database of information about all past and present patrons, founders and members of the academy. Consultation information for the Academy's library and 'Centro de Memória' is available, as are details for purchasing Academy publications (at the time of cataloguing, these services were not available). This site features various sub-sites devoted entirely to: |
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Periférica (Jun 04 2004 02:57 GMT) - This is the online version of the Portuguese language cultural magazine, Periférica (ISSN 1656-3964). It publishes original poetry and narrative in Portuguese, as well as critical articles on all aspects of global culture, although Lusophone issues do take precedence. Unfortunately, the full-text of all published articles are not available online (for each issue, the editorial is usually the only full-text piece): users may read, however, extracts from all the contents and view facsimiles of the printed versions pages. Details of how to order the magazine are available. |
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- This is the website for the Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project which brings together a number of databases containing essential materials for students and researchers of Pan-Hispanic Balladry, or the Romancero. At the time of cataloguing, two databases were available on the site. The first is a bibliographic database, containing details of published books, journal articles, essays, dissertations, and musical recordings related to the field. This database is reliant on contributions from users and is constantly growing. Searches may be carried out author, date, ballad title, geography, genre and so on. |
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- The Web site, Novos Livros, is devoted to new publications in the Portuguese language. It serves, first and foremost, as a magazine that reviews new fiction, poetry, essays, dictionaries, cultural and technical books, and more, published in Portuguese. While the majority of these are by Lusophone writers, the site does review publications that have been translated into Portuguese. Also available on the site are a good number of interviews with diverse Lusophone, such as Paulo Moreiras and Manuel Arouca. A further section asks a series of notable figures three specific questions related to their work. |
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- Danebury, an Iron Age Hill Fort situated in the county of Hampshire in southern England, has been the subject of a major programme of excavation directed by Professor Barry Cunliffe that began in 1969 and ended in 1988. The Danebury Excavations Digital Archive aims to provide a number of original datasets and images from these excavations in order to facilitate new research and interpretation. The excavation programme at Danebury has been written up in a number of volumes. Four of these are concerned with the site and the material remains from it and are also available online through the ADS Library. The digital datasets can be used in conjunction with these publications and, in the preface to the excavations volume, Cunliffe described the potential use of the excavation archive, "A data-set of the kind derived from Danebury will continue to be reworked by students for the foreseeable future asking new and increasingly sophisticated questions". |
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Galego.org (Jun 04 2004 02:57 GMT) - This website, available in English, Spanish and Galician, acts as an introduction to the Galician language and culture, and will be of interest to anyone beginning to learn Galician. It offers a good historical overview of the language's development, from its origins and the effects of the Roman arrival in Galicia (I BC), through the centuries, up until the present day. Interesting facts and features appear throughout this overview, including a map of the Romance languages, examples of some of Galicia's greatest writers, and illustrations, paintings and lithographs of various notable Galician figures. The site also provides detailed information regarding Galician today, including: the results from the 1991 census compiled to draw up a Sociolinguistic map of Galicia; |
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- This website offers Spanish language practice for students of beginner and intermediate levels, with some more advanced activities as well. An interactive resource, students may complete and self-check the activities online, or teachers may check students' work for them: this requires free registration and the entering of appropriate email addresses to which the completed work will be sent. The site's aim is not to be fully comprehensive but to offer a selection of activities that tackle the most common areas of difficulty for students of Spanish. Most of the activities are multiple choice, but as well as covering those problematic grammar areas (including object and relative pronouns, por and para, and the subjunctive), the site also features literature based activities (such as quizzes on Lazarillo de Tormes), art related activities (including describing paintings as part of a gap-fill exercise), listening comprehensions based upon video clips, and games to broaden vocabulary. |
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El cultural (Jun 04 2004 02:57 GMT) - This is the online version of the Spanish arts magazine, El Cultural, which offers information, news and critical reviews from the fields of literature, art, theatre, cinema, and music. This site is an essential resource for anyone who wishes to keep up-to-date with contemporary Spanish culture. New publications, cinema releases, and theatrical/musical performances are reviewed (these reviews are kept brief and to the point, but informative nonetheless), prominent figures are interviewed, and information is provided on, for example, the week's best-sellers, related cultural publications (online and print), prizes and festivals, addresses of arthouse cinemas, and exhibitions and gallery guides. The site's search facility allows users to locate information of interest in the magazine's archive. There is also a daily agenda, which lists a selection of cultural events across Spain in all the fields covered by the magazine. |
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- This is a simple but clear online guide to the basics of Spanish grammar, covering the essentials that any student of Spanish needs to know, illustrated with examples throughout. Grammatical areas covered by the site include: the very basics (accents, and how to type them, plurals, articles, pronouns and gender); conjugation of verbs; tenses; |
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- The website, French Revision, is an excellent, comprehensive resource for students (aged 11-18) and teachers of French, offering an impressive selection of interactive language activities designed to practice reading, writing and listening. Activities are divided into beginners, intermediate and advanced. For beginners, there are simple theme-related activities to practise the basics of the French language. For intermediate students, there are GCSE past exam papers, exam vocab, and new specimen papers. The former two must be ordered online, but the specimen papers may be worked through on the site. |
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- This is a simple, easy-to-use and fast online English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionary that will assist students of any level. The dictionary holds over 56,508 entries and 10,369 audio pronunciations, and is still growing. Searches may be made for both English and Spanish words: one result is usually returned, together with alternative suggestions for searching in the native language. The sound files of a select number of entries (in both English and Spanish) will help the user with pronunciation: |
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- This website is an online, monolingual dictionary of the Catalan language. Straightforward in design and usage, this dictionary is a valuable electronic tool for all students of Catalan at any level. The dictionary features one simple search box where words may be entered: if the word entered is in the dictionary, a definition in Catalan will be provided. If the word is not featured, or indeed has been misspelt, the site offers a number of close alternatives for searching. |
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- This is a simple but effective English to Spanish online dictionary, which contains approximately 60,000 entries. It acts as a useful reference tool for students of Spanish at any level, seeking quick translation from English. Users simply enter a word into the search box, and most commonly, a number of Spanish equivalents (or near equivalents) will be offered. Clicking on these Spanish words will provide an English translation so users are able to ascertain which result will be most appropriate for the context of their use. The site features a number of other sections of interest, which offer various phrases and real examples of speech suitable for different contexts. |
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- This website is authored by the Spanish novelist, Marina Mayoral (1942-), and acts as a basic introduction to the writer and her work. A lecturer in Spanish literature at the Complutense University in Madrid, Mayoral has published a significant number of novels, short stories, and general prose, and has won various literary prizes for novels such as 'Cándida, otra vez' (1979), 'Al otro lado' (1980), and 'Chamámabase Lluís' (1989). On this site, users are able to read both summaries of and extracts from some of her works, and access a short biography, which lists briefly some of Mayoral's literary and academic achievements. Extracts from various press reviews of her works are also available, as is a series of Mayoral quotations. A short list of links directs the user to further web resources containing reviews of Mayoral's works, biographical information, or references to Mayoral's scholarly publications. |
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- Established by a group of eminant literary scholars in 1976, the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) has been held at Cornell University since 1997. (Previously it was hosted by the University of California, Irvine; Northwestern University; and Dartmouth College). The School offers a number of seminars and lectures over a six-week period in June/July of each year. |
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- The Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS) is a subscription journal publishing peer-reviewed academic research relating to the region of southern Africa. Published by Carfax, of the Taylor and Francis Group, JSAS is edited by Deborah Gaitskell (University of London, UK), Lyn Schmaker (University of Manchester), and David Simon (Royal Holloway, London). There are four issues per year, and usually two of these are on special issues. While early issues focussed on social history, the journal has broadened its scope to include articles on anthropology, politics and health, gender studies, ecological change and the politics of conservation, political violence, contemporary politics, urban studies, South African literature, as well as democracy and popular culture. The Web site provides an online sample copy of JSAS, instructions for authors, table of contents information from Volume 22 onwards, and abstracts from Volume 25 onwards. |
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- This French-language website is devoted to the 19th century writer and poet, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), and offers a number of resources other than the standard biography and chronology. A collection of Baudelaire's correspondance between 1832 and 1864 is available, as are interesting but brief overviews of Baudelaire's contemporaries including his family and friends, and influential writers and artists such as Eugène Delacroix and Victor Hugo (this section features illustrations of each of the characters featured). Baudelaire also worked as a critic, and some of his critical articles are available here: the site's authors aim to problematize the notion that Baudelaire published criticism simply to pay off debts, and that these pieces merit closer attention. Commentary of the texts is provided. |
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- The Web Site "Witches in Flanders/Hexsen in Vlaanderen" is an excellent site in both Dutch and English. It has been published online by Professor Jos Monballyu of the Faculty of Law, Catholic University Leuven, and is part of the larger site "Low Countries Law (Recht Uit de Lage Landen)". This is an extremely useful site for those carrying out research on Flanders, or comparative witchcraft. The site covers the period from 1450 to 1700. It provides a chronological list of those accused of witchcraft who were burnt, and a bibliography on the subject of witchcraft in Flanders. |
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- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is immortalized by his 168 fairy tales. They have influenced film, novels, poetry and music since their publishing during the nineteenth century. Based upon traditional folklore and children's tales, the stories are simple and eloquent, and like Aesop's Fables, contain moral lessons. This website contains e-text copies of 140 of Andersen's fairy tales organized chronologically, many with original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen. For more advanced research a cross-reference option is available. |
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- George Barbanis' web page gives online access to 56 poems by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863 - 1933). English translations by Barbarnis, and the original Greek versions of the poems are available. There are also audio links to Cavafy reading, in Greek, two of his poems: "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Ithaca". A few editions of Cavafy's work, including The Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalvern (which Barbanis has consulted for his own translations), are referenced at the bottom of the page. |
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- The Web Site "The Northern Lights Route" has been produced by the University Library of Tromsø, Norway, as part of The Council of Europe Cultural Routes. The aim of the site is to introduce users to the northern regions of Europe and its early and contemporary culture and traditions. Sections include: descriptions; nature; |
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