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ACLAnet
"...an interactive network sponsored by (but not limited to) the American Comparative Literature Association."

Australian Humanities Review
"a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal"

Bartleby.com
A wonderful collection of free Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction works online.

Bollettino '900
Electronic Newsletter of '900 Italian Literature.
Università degli Studi di Bologna

bowerbird hypermedia research engine - (dead link)
"The Bowerbird search engine is a search robot that indexes World Wide Web content related to hypertext theory."

Camelot Project
"...designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information."
- University of Rochester

Classic Book Library
"A large collection of free online eBooks on Mystery, Science Fiction, Romance, and more."

ClassicReader.com
"...where full-length classic stories, poetry, Shakespearean works, and reference works are made available for your reading pleasure."

DBNL (Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren)
"The Digital Library of Dutch Literature is a collection of primary and secondary information on Dutch language and literature in its historical, societal and cultural context."

Dictionary of Sensibility - (dead link)
"This hypertext offers a new approach towards understanding the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language. Rather than attempting strict definitions, this project offers a tool for recognizing the multivalence of such words as "virtue," "enthusiasm," and "community." Our hypertext collects excerpts from primary texts of sensibility and scatters them among twenty four key terms."
By Corey Brady, Virginia Cope, Mike Millner, Ana Mitric, Kent Puckett, and Danny Siegel, Dept. of English, University of Virginia

Electronic Text Collection in Western European Literature
"This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest. Collections are listed more or less in order of size; indivdual [sic] authors are listed alphabetically."
From the Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries

Electronic Literature Directory
"It provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements...The Directory provides easy access to one of the most exciting and fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration."

Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (EESE)
"EESE is a refereed journal archived by the Nieders‰chsische Staats- und Universit‰tsbibliothek Gˆttingen"

The EServer
Accessible Online E-Publishing
"The EServer (founded in 1990 as the English Server) attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work. We offer 42 collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, 18th century literary criticism, internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, gender studies and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, we publish hypertext, audio and even video recordings."

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
"Sponsored by Cornell Universityís Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art. While the site emerges from a comparative literature course on the topic at Skidmore College, it is also intended to open the door to consideration of some of the constant structures and patterns of fantastic literature, and the problems they raise. In this sense, the materials presented here may find a use among students in a variety of disciplines ... Approximately 300 images from over 80 books reside in this database. They may be perused by subject via the links on the homepage and in the navigation bar at the bottom of each page."

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Edited or translated by D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh

Franco-Italian On-Line Archive (FIOLA)
"...will be a database of all texts written in mixed French and Italian language from its earliest examples in the twelfth century to the Renaissance."
Directed by Leslie Zarker Morgan, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, Loyola College of Maryland and David P. BÈnÈteau, Associate Professor of Italian, Seton Hall University.

A Garment Worker's Legacy : The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
An Online Catalogue & Exhibit
"...is considered to be one of the finest private collections of its kind in the world. ."The first section of this web site, the Catalogue, enables the user to search and access the catalogue entries by electronic means. It also includes the scholarly apparatus found in the published catalogue, such as its Introduction, Indices and Table of Name Equivalents. The second section, the virtual Exhibit, consists of the actual exhibit, augmented in content, and strengthened with hyperlinks and enlargement capacities. Photographs and audio-visual material of the 1998 exhibition have been included."
- McGill University [Canada] Digital Collection Program

The Internet Classics Archive

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
"The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world."

The Literary Encyclopedia
"...isa free scholarly reference work. Currentlyit lists some 5500 writers who are read in the English-speaking world and other historical figures who have made a major contribution to global culture."

Literature 2000
"...a collaboration of the public libraries of the European Cities of Culture 2000
"Literature" is a joint project of the public libraries of the European Cities of Culture 2000. Participants include libraries in Bologna, Brussels, Helsinki, Cracow, Prague, Reykjavik and Bergen. The project consists of several components through which the Cities of Culture will acquaint each other with their own city or region's authors and their literature. This will be accomplished through presentations of the authors and their cities on the Internet..."

Literature Post
"...where you can read hundreds of classic books, plays, poems and stories. Our collection currently contains 544 works from 71 authors. New works are being added on a regular basis."

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
By E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil
3rd ed.: Completely Revised and Updated, 2002.
Published 2003 by Bartleby.com

The Online Books Page
"The On-Line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes: An index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet, Pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts, Special exhibits, and more!"
Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - (dead link) (Australian National Library)

• Catalogue of Literary Genres 1501-1929
  "The electronic copy of the Catalogue of Literary Genres 1501-1929 (Literarische Gattungen 1501-1929) lists works that appeared from 1501 to 1929, arranged according to literary genre. Since 1992 all new acquisitions of printed materials (including all prints from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries) are listed only in the Austrian National Union Catalogue."

San Francisco Public Library

Selected Bibliography of Studies on the Theories, Methods, and History of Comparative Literature

A Selected Bibliography of Work in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

Short Stories at East of the Web
Sections include: fiction ; horror ; non-fiction ; sci-fi & fantasy ; romance ; crime ; hyperfiction ; humour ; children

Smarandache Notions Journal - E-Library of Literature
E-books of Essays, Poetry, Dramas, Translations
Languages include: English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Multi-Languages.

The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
"...the project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights. The authors recorded so far represent more than fifteen of the languages of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh."
- Library of Congress New Delhi Office

The Tale of Genji
"This site aims to promote a wider understanding and appreciation of The Tale of Genji - the 11th Century Japanese classic written by a Heian court lady known as Murasaki Shikibu. It also serves as a kind of travel guide to the world of Genji."
By Craig Emmott.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story
  "Between the ages of 13 and 15, Anne Frank wrote short stories, fairy tales, essays, and the beginnings of a novel. Five notebooks and more than 300 loose pages, meticulously handwritten during her two years in hiding, survived the war. Launch the exhibition 'An Unfinished Story' to reveal the original writings; through sound and images of a young woman who had great ambition to be a writer and was exploring her craft."
  Sections include: Original Writings ; Interviews ; Web Links ; Share Your Thoughts.

University of Michigan - Humanities Text Initiative - (dead link)
"...The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the creation, delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the library community's capabilities in the area of online text. The collections on this site are freely available to the Internet community."

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
"Provides humanities-related electronic texts and images on the Internet, and supports their creation and use. Provides equipment to manipulate texts, and access to texts unavailable on-line as well as a wide variety of scholastic texts in the Center's holdings."

Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
The tutorials are based on primary documents and original
poems relating the experience of World War I
Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University

World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
"The Library of Congress international gallery starts with 'Beginnings,' an exploration of how world cultures have dealt with the creation of the universe and explained the heavens and the earth."
Sections include: Introduction ; Creating ; Explaining and Ordering ; Recording the Experience.

Online Journals - (dead link) Ancient Narrative
Electronic Journal
"...Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions, including novels proper, the "fringe", as well as the fragments; narrative texts of the Byzantine age, early Christian narrative texts - and the reception of these works in modern literature, film and music."

Applied Semiotics/SÈmiotique AppliquÈe

Arachne @ Rutgers (ejournal)
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies

Arob@se
Journal des lettres & sceinces humaines

CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal
(ISSN 1481-4374)

Context; Internetforum for Literature, Art, and Social Affairs - (dead link)

CTheory: Theory, Technology, Culture

Currents in Electronic Literacy
"...is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education. We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, as well as in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies."

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies
"The journal is an integral part of the Center's mission to promote and disseminate research and communication related to Celtic cultures, past and present, in the academic arena as well as for the general public... The journal will provide free access to cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles solicited to address specific themes from a range of cross-disciplinary and international perspectives."
Published by the University of Wisconsin Center for Celtic Studies

Early Modern Literary Studies
A Journal of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Literature

Encyclopedia Mythologica
An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, and Legend

Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life

Imperium Journal
An International Journal of Media and Postcolonial Studies
"...an online journal dedicated to the study of the postcolonial experience within a diverse range of contexts related to media and postcolonial studies. The rise of the two disciplines in the context of internationalisation and globalisation in the post-war cultural milieu provides the intellectual impulse for the development of the journal."

Journal E: Real Stories From Planet Earth

The Kenyon Review

Kritika Kultura
An Electronic Journal of Literary and Language Studies
Published by the English Department, Ateneo de Manila University

MC-link: Letteratua - La biblioteca telematica

The Medieval Review - (dead link)
"The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews."

MotsPluriels

Other Voices
The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
"...regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, lecture transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities; covering philosophy, literature, visual art, music, and theory in a variety of traditional and non-traditional forms."
Published by the University of Pennsylvania

PopMatters

Postmodern culture
Current issue only

The Red Critique: Marxist Theory and Critique of the Contemporary
Spring 2001-
"...aims at red-ing social and cultural theory for new revolutionary praxis. THE RED CRITIQUE will publish theoretical essays engaging issues from labor to sexuality; from (cyber)colonialism to emerging forms of fascism; from health care and the welfare-state to 'globalization';..."

Renaissance Forum

Simply Australia
"the e-zine on Australian folklore"

Slayage: The On-Line International Journal of Buffy Studies
"...where you will find critical and scholarly essays about the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Maintained by Mike Madin.
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