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University of Rochester site featuring Arthurian texts,images, bibliographies, and basic information.

Bilingual journal of criticism and reviews for children and young adults.

Poems, biographies, bibliographies, and selected resources featuring Canadian poets.

Site features essays, a digital manuscript gallery, and resources for Canadian writers such as Marie-Clair Blais, Roger Lemelin, Carol Shields, and Michael Tremblay.

A selected annotated bibliography.

Works by women writers and an extensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information. Browse by author, century, country, or ethnicity.

Features resources for children's librarians. Includes lists of best books, reviews, and programming resources.

Annotated directory of relevant resources.

"The Princeton Charrette Project is a complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript traditionthat of Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180)."

Browsable site includes historical discussions and book-cover images. Exhibition from McGill University Libraries, Canada.

This website "is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided byothers: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world."

Bibliography of children's literature criticism.

"The sampler of Chinese texts collected here is intended as a resource for students of written Chinese from the advanced beginner level onward. The selections represent a wide range of periods and genres, but all are well known in modern-day China and worth reading in their own right."

This website presents "a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Materials to construct this archive were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University ofSouthern Mississippi."

A home page containing reviews and articles about comic strips and comic books, and articles on their writers andartists.

Homepage of the sub-faculties of Classical Languages and Literature and Ancient History at the University of Oxford.

University of Florida site collects links related to Classics. Includes Local Resources, Subject Guides/Indices, Databases, Bibliographies, Directories/Associations, Etexts, journals and more.

Links to a broad range of resources including Greek and Latin Languages, Greek and Latin authors, Maps and sites of the Ancient World, Classics E-Journals, Medieval Latin Language and Culture, Classics Publishers, Classics Associations, and more.

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 culturalstudies. Each article is preceded by an abstract.

Extensive coverage of the world of mystery fiction.

Reviews "Canadiana of interest to children and young adults, including publications produced in Canada, or published elsewhere but of special interest or significance to Canada, such as those having a Canadian writer, illustrator or subject."

"The Collaborative Bibliographies were generated from discussion and query threads on T-AMLIT (the "Teaching the American Literatures" discussion list). All of the bibliographies are comprised of the initial query by a member of the discussion list, and subsequent responses to those queries. The responses come in all sizes, ranging from a single line with an author and title suggestion to several paragraphs."

Website of the Special Collections and Archives of the James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, which houses "nearly 10,000 comic books dating primarily from the 1970s-1990s the papers and drawings of two Richmond political cartoonists and several other related manuscriptcollections an extensive collection of reference journals donated by Dr. M. Thomas Inge, an expert on popular culture and the history of the comic arts and a growing collection of reference books supporting the study of all areas of the comic arts."

This "site is designed to introduce librarians (as well as teachers and parents) to the rich, diverseofferings from today's comics book publishers, and to encourage the acquisition of comic books and graphic novels in libraries serving young adults."

"The Comics Journal is a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective. We are owned and operated by Fantagraphics Books, a leading publisher of alternative comic books ."

The official journal of the American Literature Association (ACLA). The website contains table of contents and article abstracts for the current issue and article abstracts for recent issues.

Electronic texts of old-english poetry.

This Connecticut College site "is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. The books are stored as individual text-only files accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet." Arranged alphabetically by author. In some instances, limited biographical information about the poets is provided.

Articles on relevant writers, culture and theory. Based at the National University of Singapore.

"This collection of Middle English texts was assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan facultyand from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, as well as works created specifically for the Corpus by theHTI. . . . The Humanities Text Initiative intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts, either by converting the texts ourselves or bynegotiating access to other collections produced to specified high standards of accuracy. At present, sixty-onetexts are available several others will be added soon. HTI wants to include in the corpus all editions of MiddleEnglish texts used in the MED, and the more recent scholarly editions which in some cases may have superseded them. Large scale expansion of the Corpus will not take place until the MED and theHyperBibliography are further advanced, but text conversion continues at a modest rate as time and moneypermit. The Corpus is provided with a full array of search mechanisms, and texts may be searched individually,in user designated groups. or collectively."

Established in 1997, this online journal includes poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews Audio is provided for all poetry and fiction in real audio format. Audio is also occasionally provided for interviews and other special projects.

"An archive of crime and mystery fiction reviewed by Marilyn Stasio since January 1997, arranged by author." From the New York Times. Registration required.

Online British crime, mystery, suspense publication.

An academic site designed to "explore different critical approaches to the study of crime literature/film."

This site "represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 B.C., until the end of the pre-Christian era."

Searchable database provides a wealth of information about classic and modern Danish writers and literary history. In Danish and English.

Directory of websites featuring many full-text stories of horror and hte supernatural.

One of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. Although the Collection has many strengths, the main focus is onchildren's literature, historical and contemporary. Founded in 1966 by Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, the Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1200 authors and illustrators, as well as 70,000+ published books dating from 1530 to the present. Part of Special Collections at The University of Southern Mississippi, the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is housed in the McCain Library and Archives.

An interactive, hypermedia project providing the text of the Decameron, various interpretations of it, and information about Giovanni Boccaccio and the culture of fourteenth-century Italy.

An essay extracted from The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.

Slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom.

A well-designed website and electronic journal on Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music. The website provides historical background (including descriptions of staging and plans of Greek & Roman theatres), while the journal explores contemporary performance of classical works.

Texts to view, print, or download.

Interdisciplinary research tool for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.

An "online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays. Use the navigation bar to the left or the quick search alphabet above to begin searching for information on Plays, Playwrights, Literary Agents or Publishers."

Provides full Italian texts of 2,400 poems by 200 authors written in and around the 13th century.

Full-text articles which "examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."