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Literature and Language Guide

Other Literatures

Selected General Humanities Sites

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research

Choice Outstanding site; the pre-eminent site for Humanities research

Catalog of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

Choice Highly Recommended site

Connie Martinson Talks Books

Choice Highly Recommended site; Claremont College's Digital Library

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Choice Highly Recommended site; University of Iowa

National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture

Reading: Harvard Views of Reading, Readership, and Reading History

Choice Highly Recommended site; Harvard University Library, Open Collections Program

World Oral Literature Project

Cambridge University; a new repository site and clearinghouse for oral literature projects and collections worldwide

Other Literatures - excluding English and Spanish

Aurora

maintained by Athabasca University; Aurora began as a Canadian Literary Journal over 25 years ago. Publication of the print edition ceased in 1991, but Athabasca University began hosting an open-access online version. At the time of this review, the site included archived issues from 1987-2010. The site is easy to navigate and search, but given the comparative smallness of the archive users might prefer to browse through the tables of content of each issue.

Dante Dartmouth Project

Choice Outstanding site; A model for scholarly Web sites that seek to democratize the availability of academic information, the DDP is a perfect union of contemporary technology and hardcore, "old school" academic rigor that provides real assistance to classicists, historians, linguists, and lovers of Dante the world over.

Danteworlds

Project director and site editor Guy Raffa (Univ. of Texas, Austin) provides the sort of multimedia experience that those in the digital humanities strive for. This site successfully combines striking visual art, expert commentary, audio recordings of significant verses, and targeted study questions. Following the structure of the Divine Comedy, Danteworlds (DW) offers a geography of the Commedia and combines the visual representations of Sandro Botticelli, William Blake, Gustave Doré, and others with insightful commentary taken from Raffa's Dante books.

Dutch Studies

WESS--indicates a site sponsored by the West European Studies Section of the Assn of College & Research Libraries

French Studies Web

WESS

German Studies Web

Choice Highly Recommended site; (WESS)--indicates a site sponsored by the West European Studies Section of the Assn of College & Research Libraries

Iberian Studies Web

Choice Highly Recommended site; WESS

Italian Studies Web

WESS

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

A fast-loading, full-text, electronic collection that is international in scope but particularly rich in Nordic/Germanic selections

International Children's Digital Library : A Library for the World's Children

Choice Outstanding site; Before being accepted for the collection, each book is carefully scrutinized. The collection now contains more than 10,000 digitized children's books in 54 languages--including many award-winning books--and boasts users in more than 166 countries with more than a million visits since 2002.

Islamic Heritage Project

Harvard; Choice Highly Recommended site

Japanese Text Initiative

Choice Highly Recommended site; University of Virginia.

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

WESS

Online Text Collections in Western European Literature

WESS

Open Books Page

Choice Outstanding site; University of Pennsylvania Libraries; lists and links over 35,000 free books on the web

Project Runeberg

Nordic Literature

Reading Women Writers and African Literature

Choice Outstanding site; Francophone African women writers

Scandinavian Studies Web

Western European Studies Section

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links

Choice Outstanding site; University of Tennessee - Martin

West European Studies Section (WESS)

Choice Highly Recommended site; ALA; Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Selected Language Sites

Aboriginal Languages of Australia

AcademicInfo: Foreign Language Study

Endangered Languages

Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia UNESCO

Omniglot : Writing Systems & Languages of the World

Foreign Language Videos

This Web site is a collection of short video clips of native speakers of various languages providing samples of their speech related to a variety of topics, especially culture and daily life. This free Web site's stated intent is to serve educational and research purposes; it is intended for use by individuals.

iLoveLanguages: Guide to Languages on the Web

Choice Highly Recommended site; a comprehensive catalogue of more than 2000 language-related web sites

LangMedia

the goal is to "provide materials in languages less-commonly offered by colleges and universities in the United State" and "authentic materials depicting differences in regional dialects and language-usage among speakers of the most commonly taught languages worldwide." Some links are restricted to the participating colleges, but most of the site links are freely accessible.

LanguageGuide.org

A free, evolving language-learning tool offered in 19 languages (at this writing), this Web site is, according to its home page, a nonprofit enterprise that "aims to develop three types of resources: pictorial vocabulary guides, interactive readings, and grammar guides."

 

Classical Languages

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater

Getty; Choice Highly Recommended site
Classics Studies Web
Choice Highly Recommended; West European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries
Classics Unveiled
started in 1997 by Jason Tsang and others and continually maintained; most recent update March 2011
Classical Studies
University of Florida Libraries LibGuide
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
CSL is a gateway to classical texts and translations ranging from antiquity to neo-Latinists active in the 18th century -- and it aspires to include reference works and other secondary resources such as commentaries, articles, and images.
Didaskalia : The Journal for Ancient Performances
In 2011 Randolph College became the hosting and publishing institution of this long-lasting (1994+) online journal
Greek Mythology Link
Choice Outstanding site
The Library of Congress Resources for Greek and Latin Classics
now referred to as the Alcove 9 Virtual library site
Perseus Digital Library
Tufts University
Virgil.org
see especially the Translations category