American Literature: June 2007 Archives
Sara Lin, of the LA Times, recently wrote an article, discussing the evolution of the Eaton Collection, a collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror resources at UC Riverside's Libraries.Some jewels of their collection include: a first edition Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," printed in 1818; an embossed publisher's edition of Jules Verne's "Mirifiques Aventures de Maitre Antifer," printed in 1900; in addition to Batman trading cards from 1966.
The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction is now available online via Oxford Reference Online. The dictionary shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of literature through the words invented and passed along by the genre's most talented writers.
Revealing how many words we consider to be everyday expressions, like ‘space shuttle’, ‘blast off’, and ‘robot‘, have their roots in imaginative literature - and not in hard science - The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction also charts the transfer of science-fiction vocabulary to different subcultures and endeavours, such as neo-paganism, aerospace, computers, and environmentalism.
Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.
In a recent article appearing in LA Weekly, the 87 year-old science fiction author, Ray Bradbury, noted that his iconographic work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a story not about government censorship, but in fact how "television destroys interest in reading literature."
Two of the Libraries' Alexander Street Press databases - Latino Literature and Latin American Women Writers - have a new look!
If you visit the collections today, you will see the original interface, but on your right there is a link to the new interface. The two interfaces will run in tandem for awhile prior to the new one going live, solo. Features of the new interface include:
Latino Literature contains fiction, poetry, and plays of Latin American writers from the Chicano Renaissance to the present, as well as select nineteenth century material. Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States are represented. Texts appear in their original language, English or Spanish.
Latin American Women Writers contains prose, poetry, essays, memoirs, and plays of Latina writers from the Colonial period to the present. Mexican, Central American, and South American writers are represented, as well as leading feminist Latina writers.
If you visit the collections today, you will see the original interface, but on your right there is a link to the new interface. The two interfaces will run in tandem for awhile prior to the new one going live, solo. Features of the new interface include:
- RSS feeds to notify you when new materials are added
- Redesigned Advanced Search tool
- Red highlighting of keywords searched
Latino Literature contains fiction, poetry, and plays of Latin American writers from the Chicano Renaissance to the present, as well as select nineteenth century material. Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States are represented. Texts appear in their original language, English or Spanish. Latin American Women Writers contains prose, poetry, essays, memoirs, and plays of Latina writers from the Colonial period to the present. Mexican, Central American, and South American writers are represented, as well as leading feminist Latina writers.
The following journals in JSTOR now have links to more current issues via other partners:- American Literary History, vols. 14-18 (issue 3), 2002-2006
- Cinema Journal, vols. 43 (issue 2) - 45 (issue 3), 2004-2006
- Critical Inquiry, vols. 28 (issue3) - 33 (issue 1), 2002-2006
- International Journal of American Linguistics, vols. 69-72 (issue 3), 2003-2006
- Journal of British Studies, vols. 41 (issue 3) - 45 (issue 2), 2002-2006
- Modern Philology, vols. 100 (issue 3) - 103, 2003-2006
- SubStance, vols. 34-35, 2005-2006
TU Libraries now has access to The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 via its own search interface! The famed index indexes 45 major 19th century British periodicals on Victorian thought and opinion. Subjects covered include: literature, religion, politics, social science, women's studies, science and the arts.
The Index also identifies authorship of unsigned articles and includes a table of contents for every periodical indexed.
The Wellesley Index is also available online via C19: The Nineteenth Century Index.
Questions or comments can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
TU Libraries now has online access to Black Literature Index, a collection of 70,000 poems, literary reviews and pieces of fiction published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
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