Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities

Digitized images of original documents, transcriptions of those documents, and an elaborate body of introductions, commentaries, and other materials useful in interpreting Whitman's works.

A collection of news and analysis of August Wilson from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

University of Bergen site whose aim is to make the complete writings of Wittgenstein available in the form of electronic facsimile and transcriptions.

Companion to an ITVS television documentary.

Also includes supplementary material prior to 1662 as well as additional material added since.

Online resource useful for study of 17th century literature and gender studies.

Established in 1987, the fair is held at the Royal College, the spiritual home of modern and contemporary British art.

Our mission is to support the expressive use of innovative media tools by providing the access, training and environment needed to create/exhibit works of enduring merit and artistic excellence. We believe everyone can and should have access to the tools of communication.

This Library of Cobress site features a "series of annual pamphlets first started in 1998" which highlight "some of the most important and interesting books published abroad that an American public may have overlooked." Includes fiction and non-fiction.

The library houses over 4,000 photographic books and 80 periodicals from around the world. In addition, the library contains a growing collection of artists books, exhibition catalogues, and biographical files, and audio and/or video documentation of all Photographic Resource Center lectures and gallery talks. The library is open to all six days a week.

"The translation is intended for "oral delivery," that is, to be read or recited aloud. Accordingly this work includes an audio stream in which the translator provides a reading of his version of the poem. This reading is meant to model metrical and rhetorical features of the translation, not to lay down the law about how it should be "performed." It can be listened to uninterruptedly from start to finish--which takes about three hours--or it can be accessed at the beginning of any of the forty-three sections into which it is divided (and which correspond to the numbered sections of the surviving manuscript)."

About.com's page of links and brief essays on all aspects of Hinduism.

Directory of online resources.

Born 1940 in United States

The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia has been the nation's pre-eminent survey of Australian Contemporary art since its inception in 1990. Presented every two years in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the biennial highlights exciting new trends in contemporary visual art and is the festival's premier visual arts event.

A "faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity."

Founded in Paros, Greece in 1966 as an independent, not-for-profit institution, The Aegean Center continues to maintain its autonomous, non-profit status offering small group and individualized study in the visual arts, creative writing and music. Our facilities are located in two of the worlds most compelling locations, the Aegean Islands of Greece and Italy's Tuscany.

Online version of 655+ fables, indexed in table format, with listed morals.

Papers given at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts from August 10-15, 1998.

The Year's Best iTV, Wireless and Broadband Entertainment

Stanford University collection of links to interviews, critical journals, web pages, biographies, and bibliographies.

"As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture."

Part two of an article by Theodore O. Mason Jr. from the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism website.

Large directory of links to online resources, and a selected bibliography. From the James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.

Information on Gods, Timelines, Creation and Flood Myths, Folktales.

Born 1959 in Finland

Born 1968 in United States

Comprehensive site on Islamic religion and culture. Includes a multi-lingual Qur'an (Koran).

Publication of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Searchable site contains articles, texts, images, bibliographies, and links.

Collection of digital documents, including American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. Can read online as Local Copy or download as an ebook.

An interactive site for and by serious romance readers, featuring graded reviews, reading lists and discussionboards.

All the decress available through downloading zipped files.

Convenient gateway to over 25 Bible and religious study resources, searchable by keyword or phrase. Pull-down menus highlight search details.

Site contains biographical and bibliographical information concerning numerous science fiction and fantasy authors. Includes links to other web resources.

American Academy of Religion is an organization which fosters and encourages the study of religion.

"The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) is a nonprofit educational association that is dedicated to the support of people who are interested in or who are studying Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC). This website offers examples, techniques and concepts concerning Electronic Voice Phenomena and Instrumental TransCommunication."

The AATA aims to facilitate communication and cooperation between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics and Arabic literature.

An extensive list of author links, arranged chronologically. Also included are links to General Literature resources. Site maintained since 1996.

This official homepage of the American Baptist Churches.

"Founded in 1889, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it."

"This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, Tall Tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States." Indexed by state, characters, region, ethnicity, tall tales, historical period.

Fourth edition, published in 2000. Includes definitions, etymologies, and sound clips demonstrating proper pronunciation.

Contains links to a variety of web resources arranged by categories such as Indian Captivity Narratives, Gothic Literature/Supernatural and Fantastic Fiction, Naturalism, Postmodernism and others.

Bibliographies of American authors, works, and literary movements.