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  • ISU Play Concordances

    This project connects to the concordances of ten plays which can be searched, counted, and printed.

  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project

    This website presents "a text and image archive containing several Englishversions of the fairy tale. The Jacks 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. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi."

  • Jacket

    A quarterly review from Australia of new writing, with poetry, creative prose, interviews, reviews, and informative feature articles.

  • Jacques Derrida

    Stanford University website contains overviews of Derrida and deconstruction, and includes a bibliography, excerpts, and links to interviews.

  • James Crawford's Language Policy Website and Emporium

    "This site is designed to encourage discussion of language policy issues follow current developments, such as Colorado's English-only school initiative report on pending language legislation illuminate the policy debates over bilingual education, by publicizing the latest research findings flush out canards about bilingualism track the continuing struggles against Proposition 227, California's anti-bilingual education initiative (1998) and against Proposition 203, Arizona's anti-bilingual education initiative (2000) highlight links to other sources of information. . ."

  • January Magazine

    Online publication featuring literary reviews, interviews, and other features.

  • Japanese Historical Text Initiative

    Searchable full-text documents in Japanese and English translation.

  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    Easy full-text searches and swift navigation for finding the connections between theories, theorists, and ideas.

  • Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

    "The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies has been established to promote the study of Arabic language and literature and Islamic civilization through the publication of research articles, review articles, and occasional communications and shorterreviews." Since 1996, the University of Bergen (Norway) and Charles University of Prague have published this multi-lingual journal. Most articles are available, although there is no search mechanism.

  • Journals Devoted to the Eighteenth Century

    Bibliographic details of all existing journals devoted to eighteenth-century studies.

  • Jouvert: a Journal of Postcolonial Studies

    Jouvert describes itself as "a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal published on the World Wide Web tri-annually. It thus offers a widely accessible--indeed, international--forum for the interrogation of textual, cultural and political postcolonialisms." Each issue features 6-10 essays and articles, perhaps some creative writing, and an annotated list of books received.

  • Juvenile Series and Sequels

    Browsable database of juvenile and young adult series books.

  • Kairos

    An "electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource forteachers, researchers, and tutors of writing, including such areas as composition studies, rhetoric, technicaland professional writing, creative writing, and literary studies. Our goal at Kairos is to offer a progressive and innovative online forum for the exploration of writing, learning, andteaching in hypertextual environments like the World-Wide Web. At the same time, we hope that our balance between the cutting edge of the Web and thetraditional academic need for juried publications will help electronic scholarship earn a stronger and more valued place in our field."

  • Kay E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page

    An excellent, academically-oriented website which, in the author's words, "reflects many of my concerns as a professor of children's literature and grew in response to two divergent but complementary calls heard fairly consistently from colleagues in the field. The first was for more and better theoretical and critical knowledge of children's literature and the second for practical assistance in the teaching of that literature."

  • Kentucky Classics

    University of Kentucky site offers links to many valuable resources--among them, Diotima, a website devoted to the study of women in the ancient world.

  • King's English

    This website provides the full text of the classic 1908 reference work by H. W. Fowler.

  • Kipling, Rudyard

    The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Beginning of the Armadillos, The Elephant's Child...

  • Kirkus Reviews

    A leading choice for reviews of pre-publication fiction and non-fiction adult titles.

  • Labyrinth: a world wide web server for Medieval Studies

    A valuable resource for texts, bibliographies, pedagogical resources, organizations and databases devoted to medievalia.

  • Lambiek Comiclopedia

    This site features "an illustrated compendium of over 4,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork examples."

  • Language Futures Europe

    "This site collects links on the language futures of Europe - on languagepolicy, multilingualism, global language structures, and the dominance of English. It starts with a comment on the structures of languagethen links to texts and essays and then sections on EU policy, national policies, and research sites and finally the 'monolingual movement' in the United States."

  • Language Teaching and Technology

    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 are browseable by author, title, topic and issue while reviews are browseable by author, title and software.

  • Language Varieties

    "This site is about varieties of language that differ from the standard variety that is normally used inthe media and taught in the schools. These include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties."

  • Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech

    Presents the full text of this classic 1921 work by the noted linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir.

  • Latin and Greek Authors on the Web

    Provides "links to relevant on-line resources for individual Latin and Greek authors. Most of the authors belong to the Greek and Roman classical antiquity, but some Christian, medieval and Neo-Latin writers are included as well."

  • Latin Language and Literature

    List of online resources providing links to Latin-English and multilingual dictionaries, study guides, and literature resources.

  • Les Bibliotheques Virtuelles Humanistes

    Provides images and texts from French Renaissance literature.

  • LexicalFreeNet

    Search for relationships between words, concepts, and people in this combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator.

  • lexicool.com

    Directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries. Currently has links to over 100 translation dictionaries and glossaries. Searchable by language, subject, or keyword.

  • LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame

    Profiles of journalists "who inspired us to get into this business by setting an example of telling the truth  whatever the cost and whatever the difficulties."

  • Library of Congress Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources

    Offers access to the Library's resources in the field [holdings, exhibits, etc.] as well as links to other useful sites.

  • Light and Dust Anthology of Poerty

    International anthology of contemporary poetry.

  • Linquist List

    " The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. LINGUIST maintains a web-site with over 2000 pages and runs a mailing list with over 17,000 subscribers worldwide. LINGUIST also hosts searchable archives of over 100 other linguistic mailing lists and runs research projects which develop tools for the field, e.g., a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information, and recommendations of best practice for digitizing endangered languages data."

  • Literary Criticism Online

    Critical reviews of literary works from the Internet Public Library

  • Literary Gothic

    A browsable site from Southern Illinois University which serves as a "guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic novels and gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-c20."

  • Literary History

    "LiteraryHistory is an index to full-text internet published articles covering more than 250 major American and British writers. Our links take you directly to thousands of thought-provoking articles by scholars, critics and poets, all screened by a literary scholar."

  • Literary Resources-Theory

    Provides links to numberous web resources.

  • Literary Women of the Left Bank

    Online magazine on early modernism, dealing especially with women in Paris, 1900-1940.

  • Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora

    Gateway to online resources, in French and English.

  • Literature and Culture of the American 1950s

    Large, searchable collection of interdisciplinary links, articles, illustrations, and assorted web resources.

  • Literature Collection

    A "multilayered grouping of works in literature and the humanities. From medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical, there is something for everyone. Diversity rules: there are texts translated from Nordic languages, and texts left untranslated from Spanish poetry old and new and a rich vein of information about the writer James Joyce."

  • Literature for Children

    "Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950." Currently contains 564 works.

  • Literature of the Victorian Period

    Provides links to resources on major Victorian period authors.

  • Lithuanian Classic Literature Anthology

    Sponsored by UNESCO, this site offers of a virtual library (in English and Lithuanian) of key texts by Lithuanian authors. It includes bibliographic descriptions, short biographical notes on the authors, and links to Lithuanian literature resources on the web.

  • Little Red Riding Hood Project

    This site offers "a text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale. TheLittle Red Riding Hoods 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. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children'sLiterature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi."

  • Locus Online

    Online publication featuring news, reviews, resources, and perspectivesof Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

  • Loeb Classical Library

    Online catalog of the Loeb Classical Library, which publishes the work of classical Greek and Latin authors. Browse the listings by author, subject, or series number.

  • London Review of Books

    Website of the bimonthly London Review of Books features an extensive, full-text archive.

  • Louise Erdrich

    Contains biographical information, criticism, an interview, a bibliography, and links to related sources.

  • Lyrical Legacy: 400 Years of American Song and Poetry

    This site "helps teachers explore eighteen American songs and poems from the digital collections of the Library of Congress. Each song and poem is represented by an original primary source document, along with historical background information and, in many cases, sound recordings and alternate versions."

  • Mahabharata

    Introductory essay and commentary on the longest work in world literature. Includes synopsis.

  • Marxist Media Theory

    In Britain and Europe, neo-Marxist approaches were common among media theorists from the late '60s until the early '80s, and Marxist influences, though less dominant, remain widespread. . . These notes are intended to provide a guide to some key concepts.

  • Marxist Theory

    A brief online seminar from Illinois State University.

  • Marxists Internet Archive

    Contains the texts of books and pamphlets by Mark, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and others.

  • MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture) Resource Center

    Contains bibliographies and other resources of mostly English-language material on Chinese literature, film, art, and culture.

  • Media, Gender, and Identity Resources

    Resources on a variety of theorists and schools of theory. Includes articles, bibliographies, and links ot other resources.

  • Medieval Drama Links

    A comprehensive collection of links covering all facets of medieval performance.

  • Medieval Drama Links from Sydney Higgins

    A well-organized and categorized set of links to reliable sites on various facets of medieval drama, dance and song.

  • Medieval Resources

    Digital library of full-text resources.

  • Medieval Sites on the Web

    Sources included are primarily for Western Medieval subjects, with a few Late Antique and Byzantine sites.

  • Medieval Studies

    Research guide to print and online sources.

  • Medieval Writing

    Site includes an introduction to paleography, medieval scribes and authors, manuscripts, decorations, tools, and a variety of links to additional resources.

  • Merriam-Websters Collegiate Thesaurus

    Searchable online thesaurus.

  • Michican State Univesities Libraries: Comic Art Collection

    MSU's "Comic Art Collection holds over 150,000 items. Most of these items are comic books, but also included are nearly 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, and several thousand books and periodicals about comics. Although some archival material and a few dozen pieces of original comic book and comic strip art are held, the focus of the collection is on published work, in an effort to present a complete picture of what the audience has seen over the years of the twentieth century. Local students and advanced scholars from around the world find this collection to be the primary library resource for the study of U.S. comic book publications."

  • Michigan Quarterly Review

    Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is the University of Michigan's flagship journal, publishing each season a collection of essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews.

  • Middle English Compendium

    Offers an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and an associatedcollection of links.

  • Mirrorshades Postmodern Archive

    A collection of links about cyberpunk as both a science-fiction subgenre and a reflection of the evolving digital culture.

  • Mississippi Review

    "Mississippi Review is a national literary magazine published twice yearly in print, and quarterly on the web. Among the writers MR has published in recent years are Jamaica Kinkaid, Derek Wolcott, Tom Drury, John Barth, Rick Bass, Padgett Powell,Barry Hannah, Martin Amis, Roddy Doyle, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Robert Olen Butler, Susan Minot, Thom Jones, Paul Auster, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tomaz Salamun, William Gibson, and hundreds of others."

  • MIT Shakespeare Homepage

    "Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993."

  • MLA Language Map

    The Language map "uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States."

  • Modern American Poetry

    A multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000). This massive site devoted to critical information and resources on American poets contains analyses of poems, biographical information on poets, relevant illustrations, drafts of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews, mini-essays on important issues pertinent to the poet, book reviews, archival resources, and study questions.

  • Modern American Poetry: Louise Erdrich

    Contains biographical information, criticism, an interview, a bibliography, and links to related resources.

  • Modern American Poetry: N. Scott Momaday

    Contains biographical information, criticism, a bibliography, and links to related resources.

  • Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

    Provides links and related background material.

  • Modern British Literature Index

    Biographies and bibliographies of writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Modern English Collection

    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.

  • Modern English Collection: African American

    Searchable and browseable collection of full text works by African American authors. From the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.

  • Moore Collection: Underground Comix

    Database features bibliograpic records of over 1,000 "underground" comic books.

  • Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary Reader's Services: Fiction_L

    An electronic mailing list devoted to reader's advisory topics including collection development issues,bibliographies and book discussions.

  • Mother Goose Society

    "The Mother Goose Society was founded in 1987 to encourage a love for the warm tradition of Mother Goose rhymes and Mother Goose's comforting embrace and to promote the annual celebration of Mother Goose Day (May 1st)."

  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

    The foremost gateway to Shakespeare on the Internet. The sitemap reveals paths to e-texts of the plays, criticism, biographical and historical info, original source material, pop culture uses of Shakespeare, & more. Also includes: " Shakespeare Timeline " A Shakespeare genealogy " Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare " Prefatory materials from the First Folio.

  • Mudlark

    Full-text electronic journal of poetry from the University of North Florida. Complete archive.

  • Mystery Ink

    Called the "booklover's guide to mysteries and thriller," this site offers features in the following categories: Mystery Authors & Books,Suspense & Thrillers, Crime & Noir,Book Reviews, Author Interviews,Reference & Recommendations,Awards & Top 10 Lists, Books Into Movies, Links.

  • Mystery One Bookstore

    Site of an Milwaukee bookstore which features numerous informal interviews with contemporary mystery and suspense authors.

  • Mystery Readers International (MRI)

    This organization, "the largest mystery fan/reader organization in the world, is open to all readers, fans, critics,editors, publishers, and writers."

  • MysteryNet.Com
  • Mythopoeic Society

    The homepage of "a non-profit international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. Members of the Mythopoeic Society include scholars, writers, and readers of mythic and fantasy literature. The Society sponsors anannual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon), Discussion and Special InterestGroups, the Mythopoeic Awards, and three periodical publications."

  • N. Scott Momaday

    Contains biographical information, criticism, an interview, a bibliography, and links to related sources.From the Modem American Poetry site.

  • Naropa Audio Archives

    This site provides access to over 3500 recordings of literary figures who have participated in Naropa University's Writing Programs since 1974. Includes Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Diane DiPrima and more.

  • Narrative Magazine

    Online fiction, nonfiction, and interviews. Requires free subscription.

  • Narratology: a Guide to the Theory of the Narrative

    A survey from Poems, Plays, and Prose: a Guide to Literary Theory by Manfred Jahn, University of Cologne.

  • National Archives Paleography Tutorial: Reading Old Handwriting

    "Palaeography is the study of old handwriting. This web tutorial will help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. . . . At first glance, many documents written at this time look illegible to the modern reader. By reading the practical tips and working through the documents in the Tutorial in order of difficulty, you will find that it becomes much easier to read old handwriting. You can find more documents on which to practice your skills in the further practice section."

  • National Center for the Study of Children's Literature

    Childreen's book reviews 2003 - present.

  • NationMaster.com

    Graphically compares the nations of the world.

  • Native American Authors

    This website provides information on Native American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currentlythe website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors...

  • Native American Sign Languages

    Directory of resources.

  • Native Languages of the Americas

    This site provides "a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them."

  • NetSerf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

    Directory of Links dealing with all caspects of medieval life, literature, and culture.

  • New York Review of Books

    Contains select full-text articles.

  • New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre

    Site promotes New Zealand poets and poetry and serves as a gateway to poetry in the Pacific region.

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