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LETTERATURA NORDAMERICANA: Risorse internet disciplinari

 
RISORSE GENERALI PER LA LETTERATURA AMERICANA
 

  • Voice of the Shuttle. American Literature

  • The American Literature Association

  • PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide. 


    • Organizzato per periodi storici il sito fornisce una competente guida di supporto alla ricerca di informazioni in rete sugli autori americani.

  • American literary studies 


    • a guide to the resources in American literature held by Stanford University Libraries

  • American writers


    • Sito web parallelo alla serie televisva omonima del canale statunitense via cavo C-Span trasmessa durante il 2002. Il sito contiene brevi biografie e bibliografie di autori americani classici e moderni tra cui William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Neil Shehan

  • American literature on the web 


    • 'American literature on the web' is maintained by Akihito Ishikawa of the Department of English at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies in Japan. It consists of an extensive collection of links to other internet sites dealing with American literature and its social and culture contexts .

  • Gonzaga University Donna M. Campbell's Homepage

  • Timeline of major critical theories in the US


    • The Timeline of Major Critical Theories in the US, authored by Warren Hedges of South Oregon University, is an extremely useful guide to methodological fashions in literary studies. Hedges divides literary theory in America into three main tendencies - formalism (1945-65), deep structure models (1965-1980), and post-structuralism (1980-).

  • American comparative literature association 
RISORSE SU SETTORI STORICI E GENERI (USA)
 
  • Wright American Fiction.

    • una collezione di fiction americana del 19° secolo dalla Lyle Wright's Bibliography of American Fiction, 1851-1875. Quasi 2000 testi, inclusi testi inediti di quasi mille autori del periodo.
  • Studies in the novel : realism, regionalism, and naturalism

    • The web site, 'Studies in the novel : realism, regionalism, and naturalism', looks at these schools of writing as they are applicable to nineteenth and twentieth-century American novels. The site was developed to provide information for a course run at Gonzaga University. It includes some undergraduate work, along with bibliographies, extracts from primary texts, and introductions to the various approaches.   
  • Scribbling Women, a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women. The Scribbling Women project provides an opportunity for teachers, students, library patrons, visually impaired listeners, and a general audience to learn about and enjoy an often neglected part of our cultural heritage. By providing highly produced thirty-minute dramatizations of short stories by these writers, together with related curriculum and lesson plans, the site offers teachers the opportunity to include both the listening experience and a discussion of the story and dramatization within a standard class period.

    • Selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for inclusion in its own web site, EDSITEment, as one of the best online resources for education in the humanities.
     
  • The Internet public library : native american authors 
  • Native American women playwrights archive This is a specialised bibliographic source about Native American Women playwrights providing a directory listing the work that is kept in the archives of the Miami University libraries. Information is provided about playwrights such as Annette Arkeketa, Shirley Cheechoo, Martha Kreipe De Montano, Vera Manuel, Janet Rogers and Elizabeth Theobald
  • The Mississippi writers page 

    • Banca dati a cura del University of Mississippi English Department copre autori noti e meno noti dal 18° sec. ai giorni nostri, tra cui William Faulkner, John Armistead, Frederick Barthelme, John Grisham, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty
  • KYLIT : a site devoted to Kentucky writers
  • Minnesota Author Biographies Project 

    • The Minnesota Author Biographies Project pilot database was compiled and is maintained by the Minnesota Historical Society. At this stage the project covers selected authors, past and present, including major writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Bly, Garrison Keillor and Sinclair Lewis. Each entry contains a short biography, a list of selected works (each item being linked to entries in the Minnesota Statewide Project for Automated Library Systems), a section of 'Additional resouces' and a list of sources (including many online) used to compile the entry

 

  • 17th century colonial New England (with special emphasis on the Essex county witch-hunt of 1692) : Literature Inspired by this Period

    • Information about various authors and their literary works which were inspired by events and people in colonial New England -- among them, Arthur Miller (The Crucible) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlett Letter and "Young Goodman Brown"). The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.
  • American Cultural History: The 19th Century Travels through the 19th century, decade by decade, discussing such issues as social movements, literature, and immigration. Includes links to other sites on the Web and to informative essays.
  • The online archive of nineteenth-century U.S. women's writings
  • The Beat page 

    • a 'personal project'intended to provide access to 'all things Beat' and serves as a useful introduction to the group of American writers who flourished in the 1950s and 60s. The site includes features on most of the Beat writers, from Kenneth Rexroth through Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, to lesser figures such as Bob Kaufman and Lew Welch – each one giving a brief introduction and a selection from their writings.
  • Literary Kicks is a site devoted to experimental literary movements. 

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  • The museum of American poetics
  • The Academy of American Poets

    • The website of The Academy of American Poets contains biographies and electronic texts of poems by over 200 poets writing in English (not just Americans). It also provides a news service for American poets, prizes and awards, poetry discussion forums, and poetry 'exhibits' (essays with hypertext links to information, images, and related materials). 
  • Modern American Poetry 

    • An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson
  • The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church 

    • The Poetry Project was founded in 1966 and is based in St. Mark's Church in the centre of New York City's East Village. It describes itself as one of the 'premier forums for innovative poetry in the United States' and organises readings and workshops, publishes a bi–monthly newsletter, an annual literary magazine entitled 'The World', and a series of 'Project papers'. It provides general support for poets and a resource centre for small publishers.
  • Contemporary American Poetry Archive

RISORSE SU AUTORI (USA)
 
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a cura di Marina Usbertiinvia posta ultimo agg. di Anna Ferrari 24/04/2009