Humanities

Information Handouts - General - Art/Architecture - Drama/Theater - French
Language/Literature - Literary Criticism

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Information Handouts

• American Biographical and Literary Criticism
• Literary Criticism
• Short Story Criticism & Explication

Also don't forget the Catalog for Books and Databases for Journal Articles

General

• Museum of the Humanities - Publisher McGraw Hill’s impressive guide to Internet resources in Art, Philosophy, Music, Theater, Film, and other Humanity topics.
• Voice of the Shuttle searches some two-dozen broad topics in the humanities. It is an acclaimed site maintained by Alan Liu, et al., of the University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department.

Art/Architecture

• Art Bridge is a directory of links to art topics.
• Arts and Cultural Resources: Sibelius Academy provides links to a variety of resources.
• ArtSource provides networked resources. It is a directory originally produced by University of Kentucky Libraries
• Bigeye Arts and Music Center has a 15 page directory of art links (in random order).
• Google Directory >Arts >Architecture.
• History of Art Information Sources, University of York Library has dozens of links chosen by the librarians.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet: Arts Topics has 60 subject headings for links to art and architecture Web sites.
• World Wide Arts Resources is "an interactive gateway to exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture." As "the largest gateway for online arts information" it has a search engine and directory.

Drama/Theater

• American Variety Stage "A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings..."
• The Costume Site provides online costuming sources for historical, science fiction, and fantasy costumers." It is a directory of sources.
• Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today. Taken from issues of the magazine by that name published at the University of California - Berkeley.
• European Medieval Drama
• Internet Broadway database- created by the research department of the League of American Theatres and Producers
• International Theatre Design Archive is a collection to several hundred images.
• John Rylands University Library of Manchester Drama: Internet Resources compiled by Ms. S. K. Halkyard. A directory arranged by broad topics covering sites of interest to drama departments.
• Literary Resources: Theatre and Drama
• Stagespecs Online: Resources for Entertainment Professionals includes thousands of theatre links, theatre specs, theatre search engine, etc.
• Virtual Library Theatre and Drama Here you will find pointers to resources in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages. The editors are trying to make the site multi-cultural and multi-lingual.

French

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• French Language Resources Online was compiled by the University of North Carolina Center for Industrial Technology. Rich Dupont, Librarian at Emmanuel College, recommends it.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Littérature Française A selection of 453 Web sites maintained by the Fabula Research Group.

Language/Literature

• Berea College English Department’s required reading list
• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Columbia International University’s Selected Reading Guide (59 great works)
• Internet Resources: Language and Literature gathered by the University of Auckland Library. This is a directory of sites covering a broad range of topics from Beowulf to the present day.
• Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources. It is a descriptive meta-index set into a narrative format.
• Literary Resources on the Net for English and American Literature for academics. It is compiled by Jack Lynch. It covers Classical and Biblical literature and on to the present, plus other national literatures.
• Renaissance Literary Resources, acclaimed and maintained site of Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.
• Writing Links & Links for Writers This excellent site for writers contains links for networking, publishing, conferences, contests, etc. and is apparently developed and maintained by a Canadian author who writes columns on Internet resources.

Literary Criticism

• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection has "4,675 critical and biographical web sites" available by author, title, nationality or literary period. Rich Dupont, Librarian at Emmanuel College, recommends it. Their Online Literary Criticism Guide provides "the best starting places to find online critical writing; other useful starting places; and starting places for particular time periods."
• LSU Libraries Webliography: Literature is an annotated directory of General Guides, Bibliographies, Library Catalogs, Organizations, Periodicals, etc.
• Major Sites for Literary Periods and Individual Authors Links to these literary sites are maintained by Ellen Daugman, Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Reference Department.

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