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The Central Libraries > Mid-Manhattan Library > Language & Literature UNRESTRICTED ONLINE LITERARY CRITICISM & LANGUAGE JOURNALSBelow, arranged by subject, are portions of the increasing body of unrestricted electronic language and literary criticism journals. We aim to choose only the most reliable journals, i.e., associated with a university or college and which are peer-reviewed. They must also be maintained regularly and show some signs of being around for a while longer. We have avoided personal pages and commercial sites, and have not listed any of the numerous periodicals that publish works of the imagination. Arabic Literature Arabic LiteratureJournal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (0806-198x) Since
1996, the University of Bergen (Norway) and Charles University of
Prague have published this multi-lingual journal. Most articles
are available, though there is no search mechanism. ClassicsElectronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics is sponsored
by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, this
magazine is accessible from volume 1, June 1993. There are tables
of contents to the various issues, but no search mechanism. Each
issue contains 1 to 3 articles, book reviews and a forum for scholars
in the field. Classics Ireland (0791-9417) is the journal of the Classical
Association of Ireland. An annual from University College
Dublin, it goes back online volume 1, 1994. Each issue contains
8-12 articles. No search mechanism. Didaskalia "is a web-site and journal dedicated to the study
of ancient Greek and Roman theatre in performance, and to the legacy
of ancient theatre." Issues beginning with volume 1 number 1, March
1994, are available, though the index and search mechanisms are
under construction. Comparative LiteratureCLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal
(ISSN 1481-4374) is from Purdue University Press. Since 1999
it has published quarterly scholarship, book reviews, bibliographies
and thematic issues, in the widest definition of the discipline
of comparative literature and culture. It combines traditional comparative
literature with comparative cultural studies. Each article is preceded
by an abstract. The journal has an internal search engine. English Literature - RenaissanceRenaissance Forum (ISSN 1362-1149) is a twice-yearly interdisciplinary
journal in early-modern English literary and historical scholarship,
from March 1996 to the present. Each issue contains 3-4 articles,
5-6 book reviews. The journal is keyword searchable, with indexes.
Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century
English Literature (ISSN 1201-2459) is published three times
a year for the on-line academic community by agreement with, and
with the support of, the Department of Cultural Studies, Sheffield
Hallam University. EMLS examines English literature, literary culture,
and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and
is committed to gathering and to maintaining links to the most useful
and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including
archives, electronic texts, discussion groups, and beyond. Full
index and search capabilities. see also our Shakespeare Criticism Online page English Literature - RomanticismRomanticism On the Net (ISSN 1467-1255) is an international
electronic journal devoted to Romantic studies. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text (ISSN 1471-5988)
is sponsored by Cardiff University, Wales, and appears on a twice-yearly
basis. Articles include those addressing Romantic literary studies
with a special slant on book history, textual and bibliographical
studies, the literary marketplace and the publishing world. From
1997, volume 1, forward. GenderGenders publishes essays about gender and sexuality in relation
to social, political, artistic and economic concerns. Diotima has focused since 1995 on patterns of gender around
the ancient Mediterranean. Language - SemioticsApplied Semiotics (ISSN 1204-6140) is from the Department
of French Studies at the University of Toronto. Its mission is to
"advance concrete investigation, rather than purely abstract, theoretical
or subjective efforts; for... applied semiotics is considered here
to encompass research on communicative structures and processes
observable in actual literary (or other) texts." Language - TeachingLanguage Learning and Technology (1094-3501) is a refereed
journal that began publication in July 1997. The thrice-yearly journal
seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators
in the U.S. and around the world on issues related to technology
and language education. It is also a fully-refereed journal
with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language
acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of
the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related
to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected
or enhanced by the use of technologies. Each article is preceded
by an abstract. The issues can be browsed by author, title,
topic and issue while reviews can be browsed by author, title and
software. Kairos (1521-2300) "is an electronic journal designed to
serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and
tutors of writing at the college and university level, including
Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication,
Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature. Our goal at Kairos
is to offer a progressive and innovative online forum for the exploration
of writing, learning, and teaching in hypertextual environments
like the World-Wide Web." Currents in Electronic Literacy (1524-6493) "is an electronic
journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic
literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the
use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching,
and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature
(in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages
(English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education.
We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the
hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication
format, as well as in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic
technologies." Old English (Norse)The Heroic Age (1526-1867) Since 1998, has been "a free
online journal dedicated to the study of Northwestern Europe from
the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire. This journal
is intended to be for the use of professionals, students, and amateurs
alike and will consider submissions from all of the above. It is
our intent to publish twice a year. The Heroic Age is a peer reviewed,
academic journal. Postcolonial StudiesJouvert: a Journal of Postcolonial Studies (1098-6944),
published since 1997 by North Carolina State University, is a "refereed,
multi-disciplinary journal published on the WWW tri-annually. It
offers a forum for the interrogation of textual, cultural and political
postcolonialisms. Our title, the Trinidadian Creole word for the
opening morning of Carnival, was chosen to suggest such trajectories,
as well as the possibilities of a second- and third-generation postcolonialism
addressing the material and discursive realities of the twenty-first
century". Each issue features 6-10 essays and articles, perhaps
some creative writing, and an annotated list of books received. Pre-Twentieth Century JournalsInternet Library of Early Journals. Sponsored by the Universities
of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, this site offers browsing
and searching for portions of 20 year runs of 6 important 18th and
19th century English periodicals: the Annual Register, Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society, and The Builder. In PDF files.
The Spectator Project. Sponsored by Rutgers University,
this site offers searchable transcribed texts of the March-Auguest
1711 issues of the famous magazine of Addison and Steele. ProverbsDe Proverbio. An international site for proverb studies, from 1995 to the present. Title: De proverbio [electronic resource] : an electronic journal of international proverb studies / University of Tasmania, Australia. Author: University of Tasmania. Dept. of Modern Langauges (Italian). ISSN: 1323-4633 PsychologyPSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the
Arts (ISSN 1088-5870) is an archived journal from the University
of Florida, 1997 forward, and specializes in the psychoanalytic
study of literature. It contains keywords, and the authors' abstracts,
which link to the article. Janus Head since 1998 (volume 1 number 1) has covered literature,
art, continental philosophy and phenomenological psychology and
"strives to foster understanding through meditative thinking, narrative
structure, and poetic imagination." Not searchable, this is a subscription
magazine that offers complete contents of back issues. WomenWomen in Literature and Life Assembly is an annual sponsored
by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and The
National Council of Teachers of English, accessible from Volume
1, Fall 1992. The emphasis is teacher development, but among them
are articles about Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Bishop and Sandra
Cisneros, etc. JB 4-27-01 |
