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'He describes, with quite fetching enthusiasm, how he intends to turn all 6,438 sentences of the great Herman Melville opus into Japanese Emoji, rather picturesque emoticons that are on most handsets in Japan.'

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'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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'With entries on the porn star Linda Lovelace, the indie film “Wild Style” and Hurricane Katrina, it is clear that “A New Literary History of America” is not your typical Harvard University Press anthology. Although it has many features of an academic compendium — page numbers that reach into four digits and scores of scholarly contributors — this new collection of essays, being released on Wednesday, roams far beyond any standard definition of literature. Aside from compositions that contain the written word, its subjects include war memorials, jazz, museums, comic strips, film, radio, musicals, skyscrapers, cybernetics and photography.'

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This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place...

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Links to numerous blogs about books, comics, and reading

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"Graphic Classics is a series of books presenting great fiction in comics and illustration for contemporary readers ages 12 to adult."

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Website devoted to African American Women writers

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MARSBest annotation: "This resource for advanced research in the humanities indexes works published in the British Isles and North America between 1473 and 1800. Basic and advanced search options are available, as well as a browsing feature. Bibliographic data includes imprints and physical descriptions of each item. Because many of these works can be found in the Early English Books Online and the 18th Century Collection Online, this site also lists libraries holding physical copies and gives microfilm collection reel numbers. Finally, the site supplies information if the resources are available electronically or on the web." \nAuthor/Publisher: British Library\nFree/Fee-based: Free\nDate reviewed: February 22, 2009

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Portal to websites on children's literature. Annotated.

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By Terry Pratchett: "I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book. Then Tolkien changed everything..."

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"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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Educational material in government agencies' collections: primary sources, animations, photos, videos--history, literature, science, etc.

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"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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By Quintard Taylor. online reference guide to African-American history.

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"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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"While many community colleges teach classic works of literature, full programs and online programs in the field are uncommon."

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Search for plays by author, title, and source

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"Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!
Books <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores"

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"The Folger is a world-renowned research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. Its conservation lab is a leading innovator in the preservation of rare materials."

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"fun with NPR host Peter Sagal's idea of coming up with Twitter versions of classic novels"

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