10. Selected Internet Resources
Portals and Specialized Sites
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology (11th edition, 2006)
Created by José Angel Garcia Landa, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza, this site is described by its author as a "bibliography of literary studies, criticism and philology, listing ...books, book chapters, articles, films, etc., with a main focus on English-speaking authors and criticism or literary theory written in English, although there are many listings on linguistics, cultural studies, discourse analysis and other philological subjects." The site includes "bibliographical information on several thousand authors, critical schools, literary and linguistic concepts, and other subjects." The databses is searchable and browsable by author, school and subject.
Contemporary Literary Theory
Developed by John Lye, Department of English, Brock University, in connection with his course offerings, this site lists links to pages related to General Theory, Structuralism, Reader-Response, Poststructuralism including Deconstruction, Critical Theories, Psychoanalytic Theory, Miscellany and other theory pages. Papers, essays, synopses and other sites included.
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
A portal containing links arranged by theorist (author sites, profiles, articles, some bibliographies) and links to related resources, readings, research guides, e-journals.
E-server: Accessible Writing
The e-server based at Iowa State University lists a variety of links, scholarly and non-scholarly, to collections on over 50 subjects, including cultural theory, feminism, philosophy and rhetoric. The Calls for Papers link is a useful connection to listings of scholarly conferences, anthologies and journals seeking contributions. Browsable by field or searchable by keyword(s). Comparative Literature, Literature and Literary Criticism included.
ECLAT!: The “Essential” Comparative Literature and Theory Site
Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, this site includes information on academic programs, publications, literary theory sites, text archives, journals, professional news, etc.
Fabula
A large Francophone portal of sites related to literary theory, housing the online journal, Acta Fabula, online colloques and "L'Atelier de la théorie littéraire de Fabula," a "mobile encyclopedia" of collaborative texts.
Germanic Research Web
Germanic Research Web is an interactive research guide for Germanic Studies at Harvard University created by librarians in the Harvard College Library in collaboration with faculty and departments.
Glossary of Literary Theory
An introductory glossary with brief definitions for key terms--some cross-references.
Inter Libros
Inter Libros is an interactive research guide for classics and medieval studies research, created by Harvard College librarians in collaboration with Harvard faculty and departments.
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
A basic introduction to concepts in literary theory, with short definitions and reading lists and links to related websites.
Intute
Search or browse the database of Comparative Literature resources which have been selected, evaluated and described by subject specialists. Intute's target audience is lecturers, researchers and students within UK higher and further education but this is useful for an American audience as well.
Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a World Wide Web server at Georgetown and provides
free, organized
access to electronic resources in medieval studies. It is easy-to-use
with menus and hypertext links to texts, bibliographies, pedagogical resources,
text, image, and archival databases, and professional information, publications,
and organizations.
Some broad topic classifications-theory, women's literature and feminism, ethnicities and nationalities, hypertext-reflect the changing contours of the discipline as well.
Rinascimento
Rinascimento is an interactive research guide for Renaissance Studies at Harvard University created by Harvard College librarians in collaboration with faculty and departments.
RLL-Research: Research Guide for Romance Studies
RLL-Research is a research portal for Romance Languages and Literatures created by Harvard College librarians in collaboration with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Voice of the Shuttle
VOS's mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. (See such pages as Cultural Studies, Sci-Tech and Culture, Cyberculture, and Technology of Writing.) VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors).
WESSWEB: German Studies Web
Developed by the Western Europe Studies Section (WESS) of the Association
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this website provides well organized
links to scholarly resources in German Studies, including all German-speaking
countries.
Organizations and Associations
(For many more listings, see thr British Comparative Literature Association's "Organizations and Projects" link.
American Comparative Literature Association
Association Internationale
de Littérature Comparée=International Comparative Literature
Association
Association
of Literary Scholars and Critics
Associazione per gli studi di teoria e storia comparata della letterature, Università di Firenze
British Comparative Literature Association
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Nordic Society
for Comparative Literature
Scholarly
Societies Project
Society for
Critical Exchange
Society for the History
of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Selected Web-based Journals
(See also the portal sites above for more extensive listings).
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
"A peer-reviewed, full-text, and public-access journal of scholarship in comparative culture and literature published quarterly by Purdue University Press. CLCWeb publishes new work in a wide range of fields in comparative humanities including (comparative) literature and culture, literary and culture theory, audience studies, translation studies, (comparative) media and communication studies, feminist and gender studies, intercultural studies, postcolonial and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, etc. In addition, the journal maintains a Library with extensive bibliographies in a number of fields, course syllabi, lists with addresses of and links to journals (where available) in comparative culture and literature & media studies, an international directory of scholars in the field, a page for calls for papers, a moderated listserv with news, information, and calls for papers in the humanities and social sciences, links to other online resources, etc." --The Editor
Stanford Humanities Review
(Ceased publication with vol. 8, no. 1 (2000), but most issues are online).