August 2007 Archives
TU Libraries is currently trialing Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.
Orlando is devoted to six centuries of women's writing in the British Isles. Biographical and critical accounts for over 1,000 women are provided. Select non-British or international women writers, and British and international men, whose writing was an important, sometimes a shaping, element in a particular writing climate are also included.
In addition, the database offers "entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, internal links and bibliographies. Entries are tagged, enabling searchers to focus not only on author, date and place but also on such issues as genre, intertextuality, and relations with publishers."
The trial will last through September.
Available through Cambridge Collections Online, Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published annually since 1948. All issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, are available online.
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
The trial lasts through September.
American author Cormac McCarthy was recently awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize, the UK's oldest and most literary of book awards, for his bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic America, The Road.See The Guardian article for more details.
In his NY Times article, Brian Stelter points out that "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams and CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric have agreed to play along with Stephen Colbert's "WristStrong" campaign, wearing red wrist bands to promote wrist-health awareness. Colbert is the uber truthiness anchor of "The Colbert Report." NBC News' "Today" anchor Matt Lauer also has been spotted wearing the wristband.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy recently released Issue 12.1, focusing on digital scholarship.Kairos is a "refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy," publishing webtexts that focus on "large-scale issues related to special topics, individual and collaborative reviews of books and media", in addition to news and announcements.
One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. Other findings included:- People from the West and Midwest are more likely to have read at least one book in the past year.
- Southerners tend to read more religious books and romance novels than people from other regions.
The 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush, will be held on Saturday, September 29 from 10:00am to 5:00pm on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (rain or shine). The festival is free and open to the public.About 70 well-known authors, illustrators, and poets will talk about their books, including: Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Simic, Terry Pratchett, and many more.
Additional information about the event is available from National Book Festival website.
American poet Charles Simic was recently named as the United States' 15th poet laureate by the Library of Congress which described his poetry as accessible with some flashes of ironic humor.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet succeeds Donald Hall and joins a list of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Ted Kooser, Louise Gluck, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Robert Penn Warren.
The Libraries collection of Simic's works are available via Diamond: The Libraries Catalog.
Additional resources on Charles Simic are available from the following sources:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet succeeds Donald Hall and joins a list of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Ted Kooser, Louise Gluck, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Robert Penn Warren.
The Libraries collection of Simic's works are available via Diamond: The Libraries Catalog.
Additional resources on Charles Simic are available from the following sources:
- Charles Simic - biographies and literary criticisms from Literature Resource Center
- Charles Simic - texts and literary criticisms from Literature Online (LION)
- Charles Simic - biography and poems from Academy of American Poets
ARTstor now includes over 4,000 high quality images of manuscripts and early printed books from the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. The collection includes virtually all of the illuminated manuscript leaves from Bodleian manuscripts through the 16th century, as well as selected 19th and 20th- century manuscripts in the medieval tradition.
Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.New American Literature Materials
New English Literature Materials
New Film & Media Arts Materials
Anastasia Gooodstein of Ypulse recently interviewed James F. Broderick and Darren W. Miller, authors of the new book, Consider the Source: A Critical Guide to 100 Prominent News and Information Sites on the Web.
CompPile has a (slightly) new look and three new features: (1) a blog, (2) a section devoted to New/Recent Books, and (3) a section for “CompReviews.”
Lexis-Nexis Academic has a redesigned interface, in addition to more content, including more company and country information, as well as greater searching capabilities for legal research. Highlights of the new interface are available, as well as a handy tutorial.
Dana L. Walker's article in the Washington Post yesterday highlighted an assignment she gave to American University students in her "Understanding Mass Media" class: go without electronic media -- television, computers, iPods, or other MP3 devices, radio, video games, CD players, records or cellphones (or land lines) -- for 24 hours.Said one student after completing the media fast: "we can't deal with silence anymore. We always have to have at least two things going on, whether it's the TV or the computer or iPod or cellphone."
The June/July issue of American Journalism Review included an article focused on the impact comedian John Stewart's fake news program, "The Daily Show" has had on mainstream media.
The winner of the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Jim Gleeson, a 47-year-old media technician from Madison, Wisconsin, who penned the following for the international literary parody contest:
Sponsored by the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Jose State University and begun in 1982, the department asks writers to submit the worst opening sentence of the worst imaginary novel they can, well, imagine.
The contest is named after the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who penned a novel with the immortal opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Gerald began -- but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash -- to pee.
Sponsored by the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Jose State University and begun in 1982, the department asks writers to submit the worst opening sentence of the worst imaginary novel they can, well, imagine.
The contest is named after the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who penned a novel with the immortal opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night."
TU Libraries is currently trialing Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers & Periodicals, 1685-1815.The Eighteenth Century Journals portal offers seamless access to Sections I and II of the Eighteenth Century Journals collection. The collection itself brings together rare journals printed between 1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years.
Much of the material included in this collection is rare and also not found in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Early English Newspapers, or Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and coffee house gossip and discussion.
The trial lasts until August 22nd.
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