September 2007 Archives
Author Bob Perelman will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Bob Perelman has published over 15 volumes of poetry, most recently IFLIFE, The Future of Memory, Ten to One: Selected Poems, and Playing Bodies (a collaboration with painter Francie Shaw). His critical books include The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky. He has also edited Writing/Talks, a collection of talks by poets. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
The event is free, open to the public, and will take place on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 8:00pm, Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), 1515 Market Street, room 222.
Author A. Myrna Nurse will read from and discuss her book, Unheard Voices: The Rise of Steelband and Calypso in the Caribbean and North America on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 in the Lecture Hall of Paley Library, 1:00-2:30pm. Nurse's book traces the steelband movement's history from its inception in the Caribbean to its growth in North America.
A reception will immediately follow the reading.
How We Talk: American Regional English Today is now available online via Credo Reference. How We Talk discussed the origins of American regional dialects, explaining why different parts of the country use different words to mean the same things (carry versus tote, for example) or why the same words are pronounced differently in the South as opposed to the North.
A new edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is now available online via Credo Reference.Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers meanings and origins of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags. The new edition includes 1500 new articles, such as words and phrases (Al-Qaeda, 9/ll), characters, places (and monsters) from fantasy literature (including The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter), famous political and sporting nicknames (Butcher of Baghdad, Goldenballs).
Misattributed quotations, first lines of novels, 'etymologies of group names and French/Spanish/German/Italian idioms are also included.
Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work is now available online via Credo Reference, formerly xreferplus.Holocaust Literature presents a broad spectrum of voices remembering, interpreting, and reinterpreting one of the twentieth century's most politically and emotionally charged events. The encyclopedia features 300+ bio-critical essays on all of the key authors who have written about the Holocaust.
Six new literary titles have recently been added to the Cambridge Collections Online Companions collection. The new titles include:
Author Caroline Seebohm will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Caroline Seebohm writes in many genres, and her novels include: The Last Romantics, plus her recently published The Time of Their Lives.
Her illustrated nonfiction books include: English Country (with photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes), Private Landscapes, At Home with Books, At Home with Art, Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Houses of the Old South, Great Houses and Gardens of New Jersey and Cottages and Mansions of the Jersey Shore.
Her biographies include: The Man who Was Vogue: The Life and Times of Conde Nast, No Regrets: The Life of Marietta Tree, and Boca Rococo – How Addison Mizner Invented
The event is free, open to the public, and will take place on Thursday. September 20th at 8:00pm, Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), 1515 Market Street, room 222.
Periodicals Archive Online now has full-text access to 16 additional journals, including Journal of Narrative Theory (1971-2000) and Literature/Film Quarterly (1973-1993; 1995).For a complete list of the journals, see What's New.
Literature Online (LION) now offers six new titles to its collection of full-text journals: Browning Society Notes, New Formations, George Herbert Journal, Fifteenth-Century Studies, Goethe Yearbook, and Renaissance Drama. Also, with the addition of 25 new or revised biographies, covering authors such as Steven Berkoff, Kiran Desai, Lawrence Durrell, John Galsworthy, Mike Leigh, Wyndham Lewis, Grace Paley and Rebecca West, Literature Online, now contains over 4,100 biographies.
TU Libraries now has access to Theatre in Video, a database that offers streaming video of entire plays. More than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays are currently offered, including BBC productions of Shakespeare.
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
An online Milton Bibliography, is currently available via the research database ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
An invaluable resource for Milton scholars, as well as literary and history scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the bibliography brings together the manuscripts and editions of Milton's works, plus studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, allusions and quotations, in addition to all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799.
The Journal, Early Theatre & Records of Early English Drama is also available.
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