Languages
"Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents"
http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/
A searchable list of over 3,000 Spanish books in print for children and adolescents (and adults who are learning the language) selected for quality of the art and writing, presentation of material, and appeal and compiled by the California State University at San Marcos. All information is available in both English and Spanish and the list is updated, with recommendations, weekly. Searchable by title, author, publisher, age and other criteria this is a good site for tracking down the publisher of translations from Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer to La muerte de Kurt Cobain as well as books written originally in Spanish. What's missing are more detailed reviews and, of course, a convenient link to an online bookstore where the works can be purchased. But these are minor qualms for a site that fills a growing and so far overlooked need.
"VCU Trail Guide to International Sites and Language Resources"
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/
This map to foreign language resources on the Web has been created by Virginia Commonwealth University. It is a useful guide for locating materials on Asian, French, German, Italian, Latin American/Spanish and Russian/East European language studies on the Web. The site also features links to literature, news and radio programs in the respective languages. (Vol. 2 No. 1, Fall '97)
"World Citizen Project"
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/wcp/
This site is meant to represent a global village on the Web, but if that is so, something has happened to the village. A few links are present, including a recording of someone saying "Welcome to the World Citizen Project." Unfortunately, it's another haunted house experience--nobody home--behind a promising banner. Hopefully, this village is still under construction, although, if that were the case, some mention of it would have been helpful.(Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
Latin American Studies
"Latino National Policy Survey, 1989-1990"
http://www.iprnet.org/IPR/library.html
This survey was the largest privately-funded household survey ever conducted concerning U.S. Latino political attitudes and behavior. It is made available, in English and Spanish, in a variety of downloadable formats on the website of the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy, Inc. (IPRNet). Other resources available on the site include selected articles and features of the monthly journal of Puerto Rican policy and politics, CRITICA, and the 90-page National Puerto Rican Policy Agenda. The latter was created in 1996 when over 4,000 Puerto Ricans converged on Washington, D.C., in a call for greater responsiveness to their community's need by the U.S. government.
(Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring '98)
Law
"Avalon Project"
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government have been made available online by The Yale Law School. Many of the documents are controversial and might even be difficult to find outside of a law library. An example would be the selections from the Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, a recent addition with hyperlinks to supporting documents enhancing the static text. An AltaVista search engine provides easy access to the various collections with items ranging from pre-18th century--such as the Athenian Constitution of Aristotle--to the U.S. Presidential papers of the 20th century. Documents may also be listed alphabetically by author/title.
Literature
"American Literature"
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html
The site was developed as part of an American Literature class. Visitors may
access online texts, student comments and analysis, transcripts of discussions,
and student projects. Four units respectively focus on 'American Stories'
(e.g. by Melville, Hawthorne), Naturalism/Realism, Drama (Lorraine Hansberry's
"A Raisin in the Sun") and 20th century American poetry. Most of this
site has a hierarchical rather than a network structure: the literary texts aren't
directly linked to commentary. An exception is "Legend of Sleepy Hollow,"
where buttons throughout the text allow you to read or make comments on the
respective passage. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"American Verse Project"
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
The American Verse Project--a collaboration between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press--provides access to an archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. So far, the archive features more than 30 books, including poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson and William Cullen Bryant. The texts may be copied freely by individuals for personal use, research, and teaching, and may be linked to in Internet editions of all kinds, including for-profit works. Scholars interested in adding to these texts are asked to seek the permission of the University of Michigan Press.
(Vol. 1 No. 3, June '96)
"Conjunctions: The Web Forum for Innovative Writing"
http://www.conjunctions.com
Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, publishes the print version of "Conjunctions" twice-a-year as a forum for writers and artists whose work is experimental and challenges accepted forms and modes of expression. Contributors have included Paul Auster, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, Dale Peck and John Sayles. The elegantly simple Web version offers samples from the current print edition, an archive of past issues, and a number of audio works and web-only texts. This is one of the better migrations from print to digital and would be even more valuable if it had some sort of forum for questions and interviews.
(Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring '98)
"Contemporary American Poetry Archive"
http://camel.conncoll.edu/library/CAPA/capa.html
This is a site containing the entire contents of ten books of poetry that are out of print. It is an extremely modest site given the possible scope referred to by its title. The user is given no additional information about each author beyond his or her name, the particulars regarding the book's publication, and, of course, the poems. If widely expanded and appropriately arranged, the site could really begin to hold out the promise of providing visitors with a valuable resource; as it stands, it resembles a lonely message in a bottle floating randomly on the sea of cyberspace.(Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
"Digital Dante"
http://daemon.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/commedia/frontispiece.html
The Digital Dante project, sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies and edited by Jennifer A. Hogan, "translates" Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy into cyberspace, combining the literary text with images and criticism. The site features the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso in the original Italian text and in the English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The text is effectively laid out in three columns: the Italian original is displayed in the left-hand column and the English translation in the center one, while the third column contains links to notes, annotations and images referring to the respective passage. (Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
"Literature of the Holocaust"
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html
This is an extensive collection of links culled from the Internet and other resources by Alan Filreis, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, for his class on "The Literature of the Holocaust." The theme of holocaust is taken in its broadest context--from African slave trade to recent controversies over Gay and Lesbian rights--so a simple but useful word search engine aids visitors to locate material that may be of particular interest to them. A helpful "News" section highlights the most recent additions, and a visit to Prof. Filreis' homepage explains his interesting ideas about using the Internet as an educational tool.
(Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring '98)
"Virtual Henry V"
http://sec-look.uiowa.edu/henry/preface.html
This multimedia annotated text of Shakespeare's play was created by
John Huntley, William Dix, Amy Bess, Joan Huntley
and Matt Bevers. From the main table of contents, listing Acts and Scenes,
you may access the text of the play which is hyperlinked to glossary-like
commentary, exhibits and still photos. Further links lead to QuickTime clips from
Kenneth Branagh's film version of the play as well as Laurence Olivier's
performance. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"Zembla"
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
Zembla--the Nabokov Butterfly Net--is devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. Created and maintained by the University Libraries of the Pennsylvania State University, it is a good source for Nabokov fans and scholars. Zembla contains a "Nabokronology" and bibliography as well as sections devoted to "The Lolita Effect," scholarly resources and criticism. The Lolita section features materials on Adrian Lyne's film version of the book--including an interview with the screenwriter--and on Lolita in cyberspace and popular culture. Visitors will find original articles as well as electronic versions of previously published ones. (Vol. 2 No. 1, Fall '97)