Category: Website of the Week

Website of the Week (WoW) #120: The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)

Website of the Week (WoW) #120: The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)

Languages and maps are a great combination. At WALS, you can see where certain language features and languages are used and even configure the maps to focus on what you’re most interested in.


WALS – The World Atlas of Language Structures
wals.info
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject).

Website of the Week (WoW) #120: The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)

Languages and maps are a great combination. At WALS, you can see where certain language features and languages are used and even configure the maps to focus on what you’re most interested in.


WALS – The World Atlas of Language Structures
wals.info
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject).

Website of the Week (WoW) #119: Melville’s Marginalia

Website of the Week (WoW) #119: Melville’s Marginalia

Have a virtual browse through Herman Melville’s bookshelves. Click on a book spine to see page images showing his annotations. What did Melville read and what did he find interesting enough to make a note about in the margins?

There’s also an introduction to Melville”s Marginalia in The New Testament and The Book of Psalms at http://melvillesmarginalia.org/UserViewFramesetIntro.php?id=14.

Melville’s Marginalia Online
melvillesmarginalia.org

Website of the Week (WoW) #119: Melville’s Marginalia

Have a virtual browse through Herman Melville’s bookshelves. Click on a book spine to see page images showing his annotations. What did Melville read and what did he find interesting enough to make a note about in the margins?

There’s also an introduction to Melville”s Marginalia in The New Testament and The Book of Psalms at http://melvillesmarginalia.org/UserViewFramesetIntro.php?id=14.

Melville’s Marginalia Online
melvillesmarginalia.org

Website of the Week (WoW) #118: Old English Literature

Website of the Week (WoW) #118: Old English Literature The English Faculty at Oxford brings you The Dream of the Rood, selections from Beowulf, and other OE works that include a running glossary and notes, reading lists, translations, contextual info…

Website of the Week (WoW) #118: Old English Literature

The English Faculty at Oxford brings you The Dream of the Rood,
selections from Beowulf, and other OE works that include a running glossary and notes, reading lists, translations, contextual information and sources of the poem. You can even download the entire site to use and modify locally.


Old English Literature
www.english.ox.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #117: The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive

Website of the Week (WoW) #117: The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive

Who were William Sharp and Fiona Macleod? The same person. Scottish author William Sharp decided to write a romance under a female pseudonym and found he had to keep up the fiction that Fiona was a real person in order to write more books under that name. Here’s Sharp’s correspondence under both his own name–with people such as Thomas Hardy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Butler Yeats–and under Fiona’s. Through his Fiona letters, he used his literary skill to create a persona that endured until his death 10 years later.


The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive | Institute of English Studies
www.ies.sas.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #117: The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive

Who were William Sharp and Fiona Macleod? The same person. Scottish author William Sharp decided to write a romance under a female pseudonym and found he had to keep up the fiction that Fiona was a real person in order to write more books under that name. Here’s Sharp’s correspondence under both his own name–with people such as Thomas Hardy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Butler Yeats–and under Fiona’s. Through his Fiona letters, he used his literary skill to create a persona that endured until his death 10 years later.


The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive | Institute of English Studies
www.ies.sas.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #116: AFA: Academic Film Archive of North America

Website of the Week (WoW) #116: AFA: Academic Film Archive of North America

Explore this “hidden corner of North American cinema” and view some of the films. Academic films are educational films made on school subject areas such as history, science, art, and social studies. The AFA is working to preserve this bit of our film legacy.

Do you remember watching films in school? It was more fun than doing worksheets!

Academic Film Archive of North America
www.afana.org
This just in! Read AFA’s interview with the late novelist Elmore Leonard about his years writing screenplays for eductational filmmaker Bill Deneen.

Website of the Week (WoW) #116: AFA: Academic Film Archive of North America

Explore this “hidden corner of North American cinema” and view some of the films. Academic films are educational films made on school subject areas such as history, science, art, and social studies. The AFA is working to preserve this bit of our film legacy.

Do you remember watching films in school? It was more fun than doing worksheets!

Academic Film Archive of North America
www.afana.org
This just in! Read AFA’s interview with the late novelist Elmore Leonard about his years writing screenplays for eductational filmmaker Bill Deneen.

Website of the Week (WoW) #115: Craft Revival

Website of the Week (WoW) #115: Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present From the mid-1890s to the 1940s a folk craft revival took place in Western North Carolina. Learn about the crafts and see some of the beautiful handmade obj…

Website of the Week (WoW) #115: Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present

From the mid-1890s to the 1940s a folk craft revival took place in Western North Carolina. Learn about the crafts and see some of the beautiful handmade objects from this period and region.


Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present
www.wcu.edu
Craft Revival: A Project of Hunter Library Digital Programs at Western Carolina University Administered by the State Library of North Carolina and NC ECHO: Exploring Cultural Heritage Online

Website of the Week (WoW) #114: Multilingual Manchester

Website of the Week (WoW) #114: Multilingual Manchester Over 200 languages are spoken in the Greater Manchester (England) Region, and the School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures at the University of Manchester is documenting its multilingual n…

Website of the Week (WoW) #114: Multilingual Manchester

Over 200 languages are spoken in the Greater Manchester (England) Region, and the School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures at the University of Manchester is documenting its multilingual neighborhood.


Multilingual Manchester
mlm.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
Our aims are to document languages and language use in and around Manchester; to study community language needs, language maintenance, and multilingual identities; to examine issues of language policy in the Manchester area and to advise local authorities and services as well as businesses, schools,…

Website of the Week (WoW) #113: Early Modern London Theatres

Website of the Week (WoW) #113: Early Modern London Theatres

This very interesting database includes only information from Primary Sources, that is documents written before 1642, which were subsequently seen and transcribed (copied) by writers in Secondary Sources, that is documents written after 1642. In this way, the database both provides information which was contemporary with the early theatres and also identifies the means by which that information came to be known more widely in the centuries afterwards.

Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT)
www.emlot.kcl.ac.uk
EMLoT is a research database and educational resource that grew out of a collaboration between the Records of Early English Drama (REED) at the University of Toronto, the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s College London, and the Department of English at the University of Southampton.

Website of the Week (WoW) #113: Early Modern London Theatres

This very interesting database includes only information from Primary Sources, that is documents written before 1642, which were subsequently seen and transcribed (copied) by writers in Secondary Sources, that is documents written after 1642. In this way, the database both provides information which was contemporary with the early theatres and also identifies the means by which that information came to be known more widely in the centuries afterwards.

Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT)
www.emlot.kcl.ac.uk
EMLoT is a research database and educational resource that grew out of a collaboration between the Records of Early English Drama (REED) at the University of Toronto, the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s College London, and the Department of English at the University of Southampton.

Website of the Week (WoW) #112: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

Website of the Week (WoW) #112: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

The National Library of Ireland created this extraordinary online exhibition which you navigate as if you were at the in-person exhibit walking from room to room, approaching display cases and seeing how they’re arranged, and finally focusing in on a single object to learn more. Alternatively you can approach the exhibition by using the timeline feature or searching to find particular items of interest without “walking” the entire exhibit.

The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats – Online Exhibition
www.nli.ie

Website of the Week (WoW) #112: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

The National Library of Ireland created this extraordinary online exhibition which you navigate as if you were at the in-person exhibit walking from room to room, approaching display cases and seeing how they’re arranged, and finally focusing in on a single object to learn more. Alternatively you can approach the exhibition by using the timeline feature or searching to find particular items of interest without “walking” the entire exhibit.

The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats – Online Exhibition
www.nli.ie

Website of the Week (WoW) #111: Tristram Shandy Web

Website of the Week (WoW) #111: Tristram Shandy Web

This project from the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne take advantage of digital technology to create an online critical edition of what has been called “the most typical novel in the world.”

The Tristram Shandy Web
www.tristramshandyweb.it

Website of the Week (WoW) #111: Tristram Shandy Web

This project from the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne take advantage of digital technology to create an online critical edition of what has been called “the most typical novel in the world.”

The Tristram Shandy Web
www.tristramshandyweb.it