General Resources->Digital Repositories
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English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies

This site, which is a subcategory of the larger BBC site, focuses on providing audio resources to the user through the recordings of various interviews authors had with the broadcasting company.

The voices of well-known U.K. authors, such as Graham Greene, Salman Rushdie, and even Virginia Woolf etc. can be heard via a simple click of the mouse. The authors are listed in alphabetical order, and when you have chosen one, their brief biography is given, along with short audio clippings that were recorded while they were giving their opinions on various issues concerning culture, society, politics, and even their own personal life. Margaret Atwood, for example, talks about the constraints of realism; Nadine Gordimer explains the cross cultural development in South Africa; Vladimir Nabokov expresses his views on contemporary Russia; Agatha Christie tells how she first started writing.

These brief clips, seldom longer than 4 minutes, give the listener the opportunity to experience another side of these brilliant writers. The combination of their actual voices and their truthful opinions turn out to be a great experience to the site-user, especially if that user is a literature student, for it is quite a surreal experience to actually hear the voice of these exalted writers in the flesh.

URL : http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/professions/writers.shtml

Keyword(s) : Interview, Audio resource, Voices from the archive, Fiction, Contemporary British novel

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies

Collecting research material and coherently organizing it is always an amazing and commendable feat. George P. Landow, an English professor at Brown University, has successfully achieved, then, in such a feat for he has created a webspace dedicated to Postcolonial studies that provides such an abundant amount of information material that it renders additional websurfing unnecessary.

The PoCo web, as it is called, is a site that categorizes a vast collection of materials on recent postcolonial and postimperial literature in English so that users can pinpoint what they need and go right to it. It first divides the resources according to respective continents/countries, authors, and main issues concerning the critical theory (politics, religion, gender matters, etc.). These categories are also then divided into subcategories of their own – for instance, the category of “India” is then divided into subcategories such as geography, demography, economics, history, politics, religion, and so on; these subcategories are further divided into smaller ones such as themes and issues, theorists, terms, symbol and image, etc. What the site is trying to do, essentially, is to introduce information on the country as a backdrop to explain postcolonial theory and its argument; only after understanding the various religions and cultures in India can one be able to understand what Rushdie is trying to say in his works.

All in all, this web has a rich amount of information waiting to be found and owned by the user. The difficulty lies in actually finding your way through this enormous maze, for it takes time and patience to guide yourself through the plethora of categories and the sublinks that lie underneath them. The continuous clicks and the complex navigation are worth it though, for you will find yourself more knowledgeable in the end.

URL : http://www.postcolonialweb.org

Keyword(s) : Post-imperialism, Colonial literature, Postcolonialism in literature, Diaspora

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies

The Reading Experience Database (RED) explores the British history of reading experience from 1450 to 1945. Its mission is to accumulate data about recorded engagements with a written or printed text. The site consists of several menus including the tool to browse more than 25,000 records by the name of the authors and readers. The database contains information about what British people read, where and when they read it and what they thought of it, which will form an invaluable resource for researchers of book history, cultural studies, and literary studies such as reader response theories. Contribution from volunteers are welcome, and for those who would like to participate in the development of the site, a list of famous readers whose experiences have not yet been entered into the database is provided. A visitor also can have an access to related websites, online publications, and background articles, which will help extend the scope of studies.

URL : http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/

Keyword(s) : Books and reading, History, Book reviews, Reading in literature

English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)

This site maintained by Larry A. Brown in Nashville University provides some articles about "Mythology and Religion" and "Theater". This site contains very extensive links of materials and works of Greece & Rome and very wide range of resources on the web including interesting images, e-texts, guides in particular.

Larry Brown also explains The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and King Lear (Shakespeare), emphasizing his views in culture of Rome & Greece with links to its philosophies. He offers summary and comment of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Mahabharata (the Great Epic of India) with his four papers on that :
"Sondheim Notes": articles on A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, and Sweeney Todd.
"A History of Christianity": notes for a church class.
"Readings for TH 2423 Introduction to Theater".
"Theater topics": various papers on Greek tragedy, American theater, etc.

URL : http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/

Keyword(s) : mythology,  religion,  theater, Greece,  Rome, John Webster,  Shakespeare, Wagner, Ovid, Ring of Nibelung, Kinh Lear,  Duchess of Malfi, Drama, Dramatists

English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies

This website is operated as a part of the Postcolonial Studies Project by the English department at Emory University, U.S.A. The project began in spring, 1996, with the aim of constructing a resource archive for students of postcolonial literature and theory at this university.

The article written by Jennifer Poulos (Spring 1996) gives brief biographical information on Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) and his three works: Black Skin, White Masks; The Wretched of the Earth; Toward the African Revolution. He was an anti-colonial writer and activist. His famous book, Black Skin White Masks, is cited in many important and postcolonial discussions.

The site contains short description of his works with a couple of quotes. At the end of the article, the name of works by Frantz Fanon and selected criticism are listed. As the site is one of the post-colonial studies websites at Emory University, it is easy to access to other related links under this project; for example, viewers will read the introduction, see the list of post-colonial authors or theorists and find out what the terms and issues are in this field. The site also has links to other remote sites, such as Isaac Julien's Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, An Introduction to Fanon, Fanon and "National Culture", Fanon on the national bourgeoisie and "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness", and Black Skin White Masks--Orality as both Domination and Resistance. However, the links to the listed sites are broken. If you are interested in above mentioned sites, refer to the site reviews in Epasia.org.

URL : http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Fanon.html

Keyword(s) : Postcolonialism, History and criticism Theory, Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, French colony, Martinique