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Digitized texts which are "related to the subject of textual transmission, the reception of Icelandic culture, and the cultural links between Iceland and Britain."

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.

Database provides a "descriptive guide to 2130 works, 1097 authors, and 161 publishers." Entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction in electronic format.

Links to resources in the following categories: Comprehensive Sites Shakespeare's Work on the WWW Shakespeare's Life on the WWW Shakespeare's Theatre(s) on the WWW Scholarly Sites, Criticism and Bibliography Authorship Debate, Teaching Shakespeare Shakespearein Performance Miscellaneous Shakespeare Sites.

This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest.

This site features "more than 350 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the late third and early second millennia BCE. The corpus comprises Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website." Based at the University of Oxford.

Provides a series of illustrated essays.

The site is an "NEH-fundedproject designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels withaccess to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions.. . . ERIC comprises two separate but integrated units: a set of tutorials on some of Shakespeare's plays and on the making and selling of books during theEarly Modern period and a database of scanned texts (thanks to the work ofSCETI) from Penn's Furness Shakespeare Library. When used in combination, these two units can provide students with a rich introduction to English Renaissance literature in its historical and artifactual context." detail from frontispiece to Foxe's Actes and Monuments, Book 2 (1610) Tutorials

This site offers works of and about fiction collected from its members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.

An online exhibition from the E. J. Pratt Library, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Directory of resources on works on language, linguistic theory and structural linguistics.

Site revives the magazine in electronic form from issue 100 (Summer/Fall 1998.

An online quarterly that publishes original works of fiction, poetry and art.

Index "covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages."

Full text of numerous novels and stories, arranged by author.

Provides listings of public events, library resources including the library's catalog HAMNET, information about publications such as Shakespeare Quarterly, and about educational programs for teachers and students.

Overview of Francophone women writers. Mainly in French, with a modified English version available.

This Staford University website provides an introduction to the life and work of the poststructural Marxist critic.

Contains questions (and answers)posted to the sci.lang newsgroup.

Exhibit on the development of science fiction literature.

Selected scanned resources from the library's collection of primary and secondary sources.

From the Stanford University Presidental lectures series, an introduction to the work, and links to other resources.

German studies resources from the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Resources (mainly in German) for the study of German literature, language, culture, history, and philosophy.

A compendium of glossaries on various subjects, searchable by keyword or browsed in over 130 categories.

Devoted to the study of Gothic Literature from 1764 to 1834. Provides students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of resources available on the web.

Searches title, publisher, year, book, or story and finds the work of a particular artist, writer, letterer.

Links to ancient Greek theatre resources.

A well-done home page containing reading lists and essays on great mysteries, mainly of the pre 1960 era.

"This on-line exhibit showcases a representative sample of the Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection at Duke Univerity. . .the collection consists of pamphlets, newspapers, programs, catalogs, and small volumes dating from the 16th through 20th centuries. It includes periodicals, political satire, Italian and French dramas, ballets, librettos, eulogies, epithalamia, materials from both World Wars, many collections of poetry, and many pamphlets relating to the Unification of Italy."

An international, interdisciplinary consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks in order to advance teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Site contains peer-reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussions aimed at colleagues and the interested public.

This database "contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices."

A collection of links to French-related web resources of interest to university-level teachers and students. Covers many aspects of French history and culture, including language, literary criticism and theory, Literature in e-text, and other literature databases.

A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number.

Site provides recordings of extracts from ancient Greek and Latin texts. This recital site was created for (and by) the classics teaching staff at Harvard to help students grasp the vital performative aspect of ancient literature. Selections were chosen because of their inclusion in various Harvard introductory-level language courses, as an aid to pronunciation and meter."

"The Humanities Text Intitiative, a unitof the University of Michigan's DigitalLibrary Production Service, has providedonline access to full text resources since 1994." The extensive range of searchable online texts inludes such subjects as English literature, philosophy, theology, history, and linguistics.

Resources for "writing and researching and thinking about hypertext fiction."

Gateway to resources on Francophone arts and culture, with a vast assortment of site devoted to literature.

A "comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries,native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs."

A site dedicated to the study of Literature, Imperialism, Postcolonialism.

Links to Native American languages, art, documents, speeches, quotes, prayers, poetry, stories, and more.

This site features an extensive collection of links related to postcolonialism.

"The bibliography contains 30.100 titles of academic literature and 3.100 abstracts see abstracts of the years 1998-1999.It focuses on modern sign language research. Beyond that, the bibliography records text related to Deaf culture, sign language interpreting as well as education of the deaf. The bibliography does not only refer to monographic books and readers, but also to articles in readers and journals. Being an adequate medium in sign language research, videos as well as digital media are also recorded."

The IGA (founded in 1991) has developed this site to provide a wide and up-to-date range of helpful information on the study of the Gothic. One of the Association's main goals is to disseminate information and research/teaching prospects on theGothic as widely and usefully as possible. Contains an excellent list of Gothic web links.

Select from a list of over 400 works of classical literature, mainly Greco-Roman (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.Search by work and author, as well as from the entire archive.

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

This site is "an effort to catalog works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazinecontent listings, anthology and collection content listings, yearly fiction indexes, and forthcoming books."

Brief essays on literary theorys and trends, references for further reading, and suggested websites.