LIBRARY

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Language

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World
  Describes over 6,700 living languages. Covers population, dialects, immigrant languages, bilingualism, ecological setting, and availability of the Bible. Search by country, language family or language name for demographic and linguistic information.
  http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/
• iLoveLanguages
  Catalog of language related Internet sites. Subject and categorical listings include Languages & Literature, Schools & Institutions, Linguistics Resources, Dictionaries and Language Lessons.
  http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
  Foreign language dictionaries, multilanguage dictionaries, translation services, online language classes, and more.
  http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
• Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues
  Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.
  http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm#The
• The Purdue University Writing Lab's ESL-Related Resources
  Offers links for both teachers and students. Teacher resources include online journals and lists of other online resources. Student resources include online handouts and courses.
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/
• A Web of On-line Grammars
  Links to online grammar resources in "as many languages as can be found on the Web." Each grammar or language lesson is linked to additional resources, including dictionaries. Additional links include Online Dictionaries, Multilingual Dictionaries, Foreign Language Dictionaries, Language Identifiers and Guessers, Thesauri and Other Vocabulary Aids, and Specialty Dictionaries.
  http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

Literature

• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
  Links to critical and biographical sites regarding authors and their works. Browse by author, title, or literary period.
  http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
• Library of Congress Poetry Website
  Features a number of contemporary poets and their work. Visitors can also learn about the current poet laureate and take in a few webcasts from the “Poet Vision” series. Of special interest to students and educators is the “For Teachers & Students” area which highlights resources designed to bring poetry into the classroom in an experiential fashion.
  http://www.loc.gov/poetry/
• Literature Resources
  Searchable site maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University. Select categories to view annotated links to internet sites dealing with American and English literature. Limited to collections of information useful to academics.
  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
• The Paris Review
  This site provides access to digitized versions of issues from an important journal of literature and creative writing. It is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Includes both print and audio interviews with most of the major writers of the last 50 years.
  http://www.parisreview.org/literature.php/prmAlpha/A-E
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  A collection of more than 73,000 historical and critical citations about the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Coverage extends to the present and encompasses both scholarly and fan writing.
  http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/
• Scholars Lab
  Created and maintained by the University of Virginia Library, this site contains digitized texts of primary sources in the humanities. Highlights include strong collections in English and American literature and American Civil War history. Some collections are only available to University of Virginia students, faculty and staff.
  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/resources/text/
• Turning the Pages
  This project features 15 digitized books from the British Library, including works by William Blake (Notebook) and Leonardo da Vinci (Sketches). Turning the pages electronically truly mimics the way a researcher would examine a book. One can magnify the images, moving the magnifier around the page at will. The site offers helpful notes, in written form and in audio format, which describe the page one is seeing. Additionally, clicking on a button provides general background notes on the book. For non Microsoft Vista users, this tool requires the Adobe Shockwave plug-in.
  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
• Twentieth Century Poetry in English
  Information on poets and texts of their works, links to other poetry sites, and tips on searching for electronic texts of poems.
  http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm
• The Victorian Web
  Created as a resource for Victorian literature courses taught at Brown. Offers informed secondary interpretation of Victorian period. Sections include Genre & Technique, Authors, Victorian Web Books, Bibliography, and Related WWW Resources. Searchable site.
  http://www.victorianweb.org/
• The Victorian Women Writers Project
  Site for scholars, researchers, and students of Victorian studies.
  http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
• The Willa Cather Archive
  This collection includes digital transcriptions of five Cather books, all of her short fiction from before 1912, the complete run of "Cather Studies", multiple biographies, and several virtual tours of Cather-related locales. These materials can be located by using the search engine offered here or by clicking around sections that include "Writings", "Letters", "Life", "Gallery", and "Multimedia".
  http://cather.unl.edu/
• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  These essays on the print culture of American women over two centuries offer an exceptional overview of the important role women played in establishing and contributing to the US book trade. The content is relevant for students researching women's studies, US history, and library science.
  http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/print-culture/women-in-print.shtml
• Women Writers
  Developed and maintained by a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M, this site offers articles and many links to other sites about women writers from Early Modern times to the 20th century.
  http://www.womenwriters.net/

Prize-Winning Literature

• The Man Booker Prize for Fiction
  The prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. This site gives more information about the prize and lists current and previous winners of the prize.
  http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
• The Nobel Prize in Literature
  The prize recognizes the whole spectrum of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches. The site provides a list of current and previous winners as well as articles written about the prize winners.
  http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/literature/
• The Pulitzer Prize
  This site lists the Pulitzer Prize winners in fiction, drama and poetry from 1917 to the present. It gives information about the board overseeing the prize and lists the finalists for the prize.
  http://www.pulitzer.org/