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Kay Cunningham's List: Literature
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Jun 30, 10
'This site gives you access to rare poetry recordings from the last five decades of UK poetry performances.
You can listen online to many of Britain's most important poets reading their work, and compare for the first time the range of styles, voices and idioms of poetry performance that have developed since the 1960s.' -
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Mar 24, 10
"The Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV) contains detailed information about individual items of English poetry contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts from the Brotherton Collection. The database indexes over 6600 poems from more than 160 manuscripts."
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Oct 12, 09
'The befuddled tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot are a poetic personification of paralysis. But new research suggests the act of watching them actually does get us somewhere.'
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Jul 23, 09
Website devoted to African American Women writers
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Apr 13, 09
"Perhaps more surprisingly, many Ph.D. candidates who were notspecializing in Shakespeare said that they were nonetheless betting on the Bard. One young woman said that although her dissertation bore only a nominal relationship to Shakespeare, her committee had advised her to "play it safe" in job interviews by spinning that connection to the best of her ability. They believed, she added, that the economic circumstances made it imperative for her to sell herself as someone who could teach Shakespeare, regardless of her personal \ninterests."
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Dec 14, 08
The British Library's tool for comparing different Shakespeare texts
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Dec 12, 08
"Shakespeare’s work, in her opinion, is so constantly mutable that it always exists in the present, whatever that present might be. The ways in which Shakespeare is interpreted in different eras say as much about those time periods as they do about the wr
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May 15, 09
"These authors were culled from the list in favor of those writers who are trying to carry on a conversation with their followers and present information they might find valuable, whether it directly benefits them or not."
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Apr 22, 09
"Litterbox Magazine is the result of a facebook status conversation between two graduate student friends living on opposite sides of the country. In such a world ripe with technology, the idea was immediate: to create an online receptacle for bold, fresh voices in the literary world."
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Mar 16, 09
"a short chronology of events in American history and literature. It is linked to course pages and bibliographies as well as to a set of more general linked resources: pages on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites."
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Mar 15, 09
By Quintard Taylor. online reference guide to African-American history.
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Mar 15, 09
"a collection of about 21,000 public domain and open access documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
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Mar 11, 09
"While many community colleges teach classic works of literature, full programs and online programs in the field are uncommon."
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Feb 24, 09
"Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!
Books <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores"
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