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General Resources->Libraries

This website is for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. CSW is an internationally recognized center for research on gender, sexuality, and women's issues and the first organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. CSW website includes a newsletter, a weekly email digest, databases, and videocasts. CSW Update is our monthly PDF newsletter featuring research articles, faculty profiles, and field reports. It is also available from the CSW site at the eScholarship Repository of the California Digital Library. Videocasts of many CSW events are available on UCLA's YouTube channel. Subscribers to our listserv get weekly emails on upcoming UCLA and community events, job opportunities, calls for papers, exhibits, and conferences. Our fans on Facebook and followers on Twitter also get regular updates.

URL : http://www.csw.ucla.edu/

Keyword(s) : Women

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data analysis and biostatistics software and resources
Since 1984, GraphPad Software has been dedicated to creating software exclusively for the international scientific community. Created by scientists for scientists, these intuitive programs provide researchers worldwide with some tools they need to simplify data analysis, statistics and graphing for free
This data analysis program is especially useful for students who are study corpus linguistics which has to analyze data much more accurately.

URL : http://www.graphpad.com

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English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This website was created by Lee Jaffe and focuses mainly on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The subcategories are listed on the left side:

1. Gulliver’s Travels: The electronic version of the text.
2. Dictionary: Provides annotations for the material in the text.
3. Bibliography: Very detailed listing of various print sources.
4. Links: Additional online sources are provided as links.
5. Timeline: A chronology of events in the text, Swift’s life, and his times.
6. Quotations: Selection of quotes from the book, from letters of Swift, from Swift’s own mouth, and from the mouth of others commenting on Swift.
7. Firsts: Terms and concepts Swift invented which have come to be commonly used today.
8. Images: Visual illustrations from various editions of the book, and other related pictures.
9. Info: Details concerning this Internet project, FAQs, how to navigate the website, and future plans, etc.

The award-winning site was cited by various well-known webpages, such as BBC Education Web Guide and Voice of the Shuttle. Its extensive and comprehensive information helps anyone who is interested in Swift’s novel to understand and enjoy the text more deeply. It is well designed and meticulously organized, and its continuous updates make it a website that should be bookmarked and visited on a regular basis.

URL : http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

Keyword(s) : Jonathan Swift , Gullivers Travels , 18c British novel , satire

English Literature->Literary History
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
General Resources->Course Syllabi

This is the digitized version of a lecture delivered in 1998 by Professor Ian Johnston, a Research Associate at Vancouver Island University. It first introduces the historical context in which the style of satire was able to develop in Part A. Then, in Part B, it defines what satire really is and its literary significance. In Part C, Johnston explains some key terms that come up often when explaining the stylistic techniques of satire. The range of tones that satire can take is explored in Part D, which is followed by the examining of some basic techniques and strategies that are implemented when writing satire in Part E. Finally, in Part F, the issue of whether or not satire works, whether it is effective in influencing the audience to react in a certain way, is discussed.

This electronic document is an easy-to-read introduction to the genre of satire, and will surely be helpful to those studying literature who are specifically interested in how satiric irony was used in British writing during the 18th century. Furthermore, the straightforward and concise writing style, along with the clean and simple format makes the content accessible to any user, even if he/she has no background knowledge of English literature.

URL : http://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/Eng200/satire3.htm

Keyword(s) : satire , genre of satire , 18c British writing

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English Literature->Literary History

This link is connected to the virtual Encyclopedia Britannica’s entry for “satire.” The entry is given in detail, starting with the main definition of the literary genre, followed by categories such as “The nature of satire” (again, divided into: Historical definitions--Influence of Horace and Juvenal--Structure of verse satire--The satiric spirit), “Satirical media” (:Literature--Drama--Motion pictures and television--Festivals--Visual arts), and “The Satirist, the law, and society.” Each heading is self-explanatory, and the entry tries to examine the genre of satire and how it developed, why it is significant, and where it is used, etc. Categories such as “Additional Reading,” “Related Links,” and “External Web sites” give additional resources where you can go to for further research.

URL : http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/524958/satire#

Keyword(s) : satire , definition of satire , verse satire , 18c British writing