April 2008 Archives

In his Times article, Gyles Brandreth points out that, because of his myth-making personality and behaviors, Oscar Wilde is "like Shakespeare and Coca-Cola - he is a brand, with brand values we respond to."

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Alice Walker has placed her personal archive with Emory University. 

Included in the archive are journals Walker had kept over the years, drafts of many of her early works of fiction, and correspondence between her and the editors of her books.  Rudolph Byrd, professor of American studies at Emory, said at the time of the acquisition that Walker's papers "give you a sense of the process for creating fiction, creating poetry."

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

View all new books added in the past month by topic, too!

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics is now available online via Oxford Reference Online.

The encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to concepts in semiotics, sign theory, and cultural studies, including hundreds of entries by leading scholars in a variety of fields—from anthropology and literary theory to linguistics and philosophy—surveying the study of signs and symbols in human culture.