English 109 - Cora Agatucci
Survey of Western World Literature: Modern

Western World Literature Links 3The Twentieth Century
The Modern Age and the Emerging World Culture

Mountains of the Moon
Bob Rafelson directed this powerful epic of explorers
John Hanning Speke and Sir Richard Francis Burton’s quest to find the source of the River Nile
during the mid-19th century. Spectacular adventure studs Mountains of the Moon (1990)
based on William Harrison’s novel.

RepresentativeTexts

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, including Heart of Darkness e-text
(Univ. of Texas-Austin course Literary Contexts and Contests)
"Africa and Africans in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
(Essay by Candice Bradley on Heart of Darkness, with useful links)
Heart of Darkness Page created by students, explores the issues of "light vs. dark, or colonized vs. uncolonized;
the superiority of the English and how that relates to other texts written; and Conrad's own racism in the book"
for the course The Development of Empire: Narratives of Colonialism and Resistance in British Literature
(Bret Benjamin, Univ. of Texas-Austin)
Links of Interest to Conradians (Joseph Conrad Society of America,
designed in conjunction with the Cambridge University Press Edition
of the Works of Joseph Conrad, Kent State University Libraries & Media Services)
The Joseph Conrad Society, United Kingdom
http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/conrad.html
(Dr. Linda Dryden, Scottish Centre for the Book,
Dept. of Print Media, Publishing and Communication, Napier Univ., Edinburgh EH10 5HH)
Resources for the Study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
(Martin Irvine, Georgetown Univ.)

Apocalypse Now 1979, dir. Frances Ford Coppola
(Internet Movie Database) based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Battlefield: Vietnam "Search and Destroy"/"Showdown on the Iron Triangle"
OPB TV: Suitable for Middle/High School/College: Friday, May 7, 1999 (9-10:00 pm)
"This series objectively examines the military realities of the Vietnam War. The first segment of this installment analyzes the soldiers, resources and weaponry of the Americans and the Vietcong, including the latter's remarkable tunnel system, while the second segment shows how, in one operation after another, Vietcong tactics frustrate American efforts to defeat them in set-piece battles, forcing the United States to reassess its strategy. (CC, 1 year)
Companion website: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
"access a multimedia timeline of the major battles of the Vietnam War,
trace the evolution of military air power,
experience the siege of Khe Sanh through a Shockwave activity, and much more."

Voice of the Shuttle: Modern General Resources,
including International Modernism resources
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-mod.html
(Alan Liu, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara)
Modernism, "An Interdisciplinary Email Discussion List"
Modernism Timeline, 1890-1940
http://faculty.washington.edu/eckman/timeline.html
(John Eckman, Univ. of Washington)
Web Sites on Modernism
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/Title.html
Web Sites on Modernism. General Resources
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/General.html
(Sean Latham, Malcom S. Forbes Center at Brown University).
The Modernist Explosion: Culture and Ideology in Europe
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/DSHEP/modernist.HTML
(Course LFS.230, American University, Washington, DC)

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
co-production of KCET/Los Angeles & the BBC, with Imperial War Museum of London.

I'LL MAKE ME A WORLD (OPB Online)
"explores African-American literature, visual arts, dance, theater, and music in the twentieth century. "
Lift Every Voice (1900-1924)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm
Bright Like A Sun (1935-1954)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm
Not a Rhyme Time (1963-1986)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm
The Freedom You Will Take (1985-present)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Cora Agatucci, Hum 211)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Study Guide (Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
Chinua Achebe
New York State Writers Institute: Chinua Achebe
(University at Albany's African Student Association and Project Renaissance)
Chinua Achebe http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html
Nigeria: Political and Social Contexts Overview
(Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English, Brown Univ.)
The Role of Women in Things Fall Apart (June Chun '94; English 32, 1990)

Chocolat Dir. Clare Denis.
Perf. Giulia Boschi, Isaach de Bankole, François Cluzet, Cecile Ducasse, Mireille Perrier.
Prod. Alain Belmondo et Gerard Crosnier/Marin Karmitz, MK2, 1988. [Home Video:] Orion Classics, 1990.
[105 min, French with English subtitles. Rated: PG-13.]
Director Claire Denis’ award-winning autobiographical film traces a white woman’s return to her youth in pre-independence French Cameroon, haunted by wounding memories of her mother & her friend black African Protee.
Chocolat is a stirring & subtle examination of the human damage exacted on both the colonized and colonizer.
[COCC Library: Video 620]
Co-producers, Cinemanuel, MK2 Productions, Cerito Films, La S.E.P.T., Caroline Productions, Le F.O.D.I.C. Cameroun, Wim Wenders Produktion Berlin, TFI Films Production. Wr. Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau.

People's Century
"Relive the events that shaped the 20th century
through the eyes of the people who witnessed them"

Modernist Texts

William Butler Yeats, Poems, (Project Bartleby E-text, Ed. Steven van Leeuwen, Columbia Univ.)

Work in Progress: A Website Devoted to the Writings of James Joyce
(R.L. Callahan of Temple University)
Dubliners e-text (Bibliomania)
In the Brothel of Modernism: Picasso and Joyce, by Robert Scholes
(from Online Literary Criticism Collection, Internet Public Library)

Virginia Woolf Web (VWW), a "Comprehensive collection of links to web resources on Woolf," including
links to"Book Reviews, Essays, and Others" (Hiroko Fukushima), with links to:
Virginia Woolf Chronology
(Rpt. from Virginia Woolf ed. by Harold Bloom , Chelsea House Publishers, 1986)
Virginia Woolf & the Bloomsbury Group
http://www.lm.com/~kaydee/Bloomsbury.html
(Kathleen V. Donnelly, Dublin City Univ.)
Virginia Woolf's Psychiatric History: Summary & Site Guide (Malcolm Ingram)
Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction - A Distance Learning Project
(Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson, Univ. of Chicago), including
About A Room of One's Own, a lecture by Joel Rich
(University of Chicago First Friday series, February 1992)

Lost Poets of the Great War [World War I]
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/
(Harry Rusche, Emory Univ.)
Web tutorials on WWI poetry
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/
JTAP Virtual Seminars Project: Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
(Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford Univ.)
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
"Trace the events of the Great War through interviews
with nearly 20 historians, an interactive timeline and
a look at the changing face of Europe through the war."
The Surrealism Server
http://pharmdec.wustl.edu/juju/surr/surrealism.html
"on the Surrealist movement and the artists associated with it"

Anna Akhmatova
http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/aakhmfst.htm
(from A Celebration of Women Writers)

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova , 1914, by Nathan Altman
Portrait of Anna Akhmatov, 1922, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Study Guide for Anna Akhmatova and Elie Wiesel
English 252-01 - Survey of World Literature II, Spring 2000
Prof. Victoria Poulakis, English Coordinator,
Northern Virginia Community College - Loudoun
http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/vpoulakis/akhmatovawiesel.htm

Study Guide for Kafka's The Metamorphosis
English 252-01 - Survey of World Literature II, Spring 2000
Prof. Victoria Poulakis, English Coordinator,
Northern Virginia Community College - Loudoun
http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/vpoulakis/Kafka.htm

Study Guide for Hiroko Takenishi's "The Rite"
English 252-01 - Survey of World Literature II, Spring 2000
Prof. Victoria Poulakis, English Coordinator,
Northern Virginia Community College - Loudoun
http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/vpoulakis/Takenishi.htm

Academic Info:Holocaust Studies http://www.academicinfo.net/histholo.html
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
"Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994...Dedicated to videotaping and
archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world."
Holocaust/Shoah
(David M. Dickerson, 1995-1998).
Frontline: Memory of the Camps (OPB Online)
"This documentary on the liberation of the German concentration camps in 1945
was assembled in London that year, but never shown
until FRONTLINE first broadcast it - 40 years later - in May of 1985."
The film was made to "document unflinchingly the conditions of the
death camps [of World War II] and show this to the German population."
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (OPB Online)
"Turn your computer into CourtPC
with this compelling companion site that takes you inside the
courtroom for the 1961 trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann."
America and the Holocaust (OPB Online)
[OPB Broadcast Date: Monday, April 12, 1999]
www.pbs.org/amex/ Themes: WWII, Roosevelt, and the Holocaust
"Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust"
Frontline: Shtetl (OPB Online)- "Discover how the watershed events of the
Holocaust continue to shape the lives of Jewish survivors."
Voices of the Children (OPB Online)
This film tells the story of three people who were imprisoned as children in
Terezin, the small Czech town that the Nazis converted into a concentration
camp for Jews.
A Letter Without Words (OPB Online)
"Follow one woman's journey to reclaim her Jewish heritage."
Meet Lisa Lewenz, director and producer of "A Letter Without Words," in this month's forum.

Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
(George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University)
"Postcolonial Literature": Problems with the Term
(Paul Brians, Washington State Univ., 1998)

Literary Resources -- Twentieth-Century British and Irish
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html
(Prof. Jack Lynch, Rutgers Univ.)

Contemporary Texts

Doris Lessing: A Retrospective, including Doris Lessing Reads: "The Old Chief Mshlanga"
from African Stories (Jan Hanford)

Macondo: Gabriel García Márquez, including Images & García Márquez's Nobel Prize lecture,
"The Solitude of Latin America," delivered on December 8, 1982 (Allen B. Ruch)

Milan Kundera

Vietnam Stories Since the War
Explore individual perspectives on the Vietnam War"

Seamus Heaney (Internet Poetry Archive)
http://metalab.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney-cov.html
Nobel lecture: "Crediting Poetry," 1995
http://svenska.gu.se/SvenskaAkademien/nobel/heaney_eng.html

Il Postino (The Postman, 1994 ) from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Dir. Michael Radford; Wr. Anna Pavignano & Michael Radford
Film Synopsis, with images

Before the Rain (Pred dozhdot, 1994)
Dir. & Wr. Milcho Manchevski
Reviews (from the Internet Movie Database - IMDb)

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21. Macedonia Fighting Threatens Balkan Peace

"Macedonia fighting intensifies" -- BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1224000/1224974.stm

"Refugees flee Macedonia clashes" -- CNN [RealPlayer, QuickTime,

Window Media Player]

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/16/macedonia.attacks/index.html

Crisis in The Balkans -- _Guardian_

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/

Macedonian Information Agency

http://www.mia.com.mk/webang.asp

Government of the Republic of Macedonia

http://www.gov.mk/English/index.htm

B92 [RealPlayer]

http://www.b92.net/

MAKFAX News Agency

http://www.makedonija.com/

BETA News Agency

http://www.beta.co.yu/indexeng.asp

Tiker News Agency

http://www.tiker.co.yu/index1.htm

United Nations Kosovo Page

http://www.un.org/peace/kosovo/pages/kosovo1.htm

KFOR Online

http://www.kforonline.com/

Macedonian troops fought ethnic Albanian rebels on the edges of the

country's second-largest city, Tetovo, for the third day in a row

today, while flare-ups were reported in several other locations. The

rebels, known as the National Liberation Army (UCK), began their

insurgency about a month ago, claiming that they were fighting only

for increased civil rights for Macedonia's Albanian population, who

account for about one-quarter of Macedonia's two million people. The

government has denounced the UCK as terrorists and separatists and on

Thursday lifted restrictions which prevented the army from operating

in populated areas. As a result, today's fighting involved heavy

artillery, machine guns, and mortars for the first time. Eager to be

considered in future European Union expansion plans, the Macedonian

government has consistently downplayed the activities of the small

group of rebels. With fighting so close to the nation's

second-largest city, however, the government has been spurred to

consider more decisive, and more public, action. Measures under

consideration by a closed session of the Macedonian parliament

reportedly include restructuring the budget to provide more money for

security forces, curfews, and a general mobilization. Many analysts

fear that either a widespread crackdown or allowing the rebels to

continue unhindered may destabilize the region. It had been hoped

that the recent decision by NATO to allow Yugoslav troops in the

buffer region between Serbia and Kosovo would choke off the supply

root to Albanian rebels in Macedonia, but it seems this has only

pushed the rebels out of the border area and into Macedonia,

intensifying the unrest there.

The BBC's report on the fighting offers a host of related features,

including key stories, background, analysis, several in-depth

features, archived stories, and related links. CNN's piece includes

archived stories, in-depth features, and audio and video clips. The

_Guardian_'s special report contains numerous stories, an interactive

guide, and background pieces. Breaking news on events in Macedonia

can be found at the Macedonian Information Agency, the official news

agency of the Republic of Macedonia. Additional official information

can be found at the government's homepage. More news from the region

is provided by radio B92 and the MAKFAX, BETA, and Tiker news

agencies. Information on the activities of the UN and KFOR in Kosovo

and the border region is available at their respective homepages. [MD]

SOCIAL STUDIES

PBS TeacherSource: From the Field -- Global Kids

Profdev> PBSOL>

Middle/High School

Global Kids gives young people the opportunity to learn first-hand

about world issues. Learn how this New York City program propels teens

into international travel and community leadership.

http://pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/social/thismonth_social.shtm

11. Holocaust Denial on Trial

http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org/

Sponsored by Emory University, this handsome site chronicles the

recent Holocaust libel trial of David Irving vs. Deborah Lipstadt and

Penguin UK (see the April 14, 2000 _Scout

Report_--http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/2000/scout-000414.html#7})

. Early this year, Irving sued Lipstadt and her publisher for her

characterization of him as "one of the most dangerous spokespersons

for Holocaust denial" in a 1994 book. The trial concluded in April

with a scathing judgment against Irving in which Judge Gray described

him as "a racist, an anti-Semite and an active Holocaust denier."

This site is simply a treasure trove of information for scholars,

students, or anyone interested in the trial and Holocaust denial.

Included are the complete trial transcripts, the full text of the

judgment, and a number of the book-length works submitted on

Lipstadt's behalf by prominent historians of Germany and the

Holocaust (including a 700+ page examination of Irving's entire body

of works by Richard Evans). Also on-site are background information,

a FAQ, timelines, and links to more information. [MD]

 

14. Holocaust Era in Croatia, 1941-1945 [RealPlayer, Javascript]

http://www.ushmm.org/jasenovac/

This new exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

focuses on the years following the German invasion of Yugoslavia, when the

Ustasa regime founded the Independent State of Croatia and set up

concentration camps there. Jasenovac was the largest of the camps, and the

USHMM site features artifacts from the Jasenovac Memorial Area Collection.

There are three main sections of the exhibit: memorial, history, and

collection. The first is a sort of art piece, a sobering screen with

shifting pictures and voices. The latter two offer images of artifacts,

explication of events, oral histories, video, photographs, and more. The

site is available in both low and high bandwidth versions. Note that Mac

users with Netscape may have some trouble with some of the site's multimedia

features. [TK]

 

8. "Young People in Changing Societies" -- UNICEF [.pdf]

http://www.unicef-icdc.org/monee7/index.html

"Young Voices in Changing Societies"

http://www.unicef-icdc.org/monee7/youth/index.html

Released earlier this month, this report from UNICEF Innocenti

Research Centre offers an initial comprehensive look at the first

generation of youth to come to maturity since the fall of the Berlin

Wall. Topics covered include health, education, employment, crime,

and young adult participation in government. The report suggests

numerous ways to improve the situation of young people across the

region. Also on-site is "Young Voices in Changing Societies," a

report based on "the views of young people gathered during focus

group discussion and individual interviews in six transition

countries: the Czech Republic, Latvia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and

Uzbekistan." The full text of both reports may be downloaded by

chapter in .pdf format. The text of the main report is also available

in Russian, and a summary may be downloaded in English, Russian, or

Italian. [MD]

14. Yad Vashem [.pdf]

http://www.yadvashem.org.il/

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and archive, has recently

relaunched its official Website. At the site, users will find

information on Yad Vashem and its mission and activities as well as

its library and archives (including a listing of record groups), and

other services. In addition, the site hosts a revolving collection of

special features, online exhibitions, full-text publications and

teaching materials, and a list of publications available for

purchase. Also at the site are a partial list of the Righteous Among

Nations, information on remembrance, and the Yad Vashem online

magazine. [MD]

13. LIGHT!/LICHT! Exhibition

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/light/

Light! presented by the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) and the Carnegie

Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), invites users to trace developments in

lighting technology from the 1700s to the present by looking at the

effects of light in several areas: science, economics, street, home,

art, and entertainment. The exhibition combines images of objects and

paintings with text arrayed on a background of bands of spectral

colors. The home section begins with a pair of gilt candlesticks from

1807. Accompanying text points out that these golden candlesticks are

not just prettier because they are shiny; they light better as well.

This section concludes with an electric Tiffany lamp from 1907, and

in between, includes the Van Gogh painting "The Potato Eaters,"

showing a peasant family eating potatoes in an interior lit by a

meager kerosene lamp. Other objects of note are an Argand lamp in the

economics section, the first lamp to exploit the discovery that

flames burn brighter when fed by oxygen, and my favorite, a group of

filament lightbulbs from the 1880s on a rack described in the caption

as "various nationalities." The art section includes a live Webcam of

the Statue of Liberty, and both the entertainment and science

sections point out that many innovations in lighting originated in

the theater. [DS]

7. New Document Releases of MI5 material relating to WWII -- PRO

http://www.pro.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/MI5/mi5_intro.htm

Images

http://www.pro.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/MI5WW2/MI5_1.htm

The UK Public Record Office has recently announced the release of MI5

(Security Service) records related to World War II. The bulk of the

release is mainly personal files of British traitors, double agents,

and Nazi spies. These include William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw") and his

wife Margaret; other individuals connected with the British Union of

Fascists; double agents HAMLET, PUPPET, and MULLET; and some leading

Nazi intelligence officers and agents. A link at the bottom of the

first URL will lead visitors to brief summaries of the individuals

covered, along with their file numbers. These will probably be most

interesting to scholars, but the collection of images should appeal

to anyone with an interest in the Second World War, traitors, and

secret agents. [MD]

PBS TeacherSource: Visual Arts Lessons/Activities (PBSOL, Middle/High School)
http://pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit/middle_visual.shtm
Access a variety of lesson plans and online student activities on topics ranging from the use of color imagery in Shakespeare's Othello to creating frescos.

EurasiaNet (Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute)
http://www.eurasianet.org/ 
Daily news and analysis covering Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as elated developments in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.  Today's Wires, Eurasia Insight, Environment, Business & Economics, a regional datebook, country resource pages, book reviews, human rights articles, interviews, elections, and a discussion forum offered.  Users can also sign up for a weekly email bulletin.  

TransHub - The Encyclopedia of Terminology (Michael Molin)
  http://transhub.cjb.net/ 
Aimed at translators but also useful for others, this metasite offers indexes many glossaries, dictionaries, and encyclopedias in a wide variety of disciplines. Indexed categories include General, Legal, Business, Computer, Technical, Science, Medical, and Social--as well as topics and individual resources--use the pull-down menu at the bottom of the browser window. Major search engines are also lined, and a mailing list archives new additions to the site monthly.

Zooba.com
 http://www.zooba.com/ 
 Users who sign on to the Zooba's service--so far it's free--receive weekly emails on their choice of 46 topics, such as Biography, subdivided into Entertainers, Great Minds, Leaders, or Literature, which is broken into Authors, Playwrights & Poets, Bestsellers, Classics. 

PBS TeacherSource: World Literature Lessons/Activities (PBSOL: Middle/High School)
http://pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit/high_worldlit.shtm
Access to a variety of lesson plans and online student activities on topics ranging from Russian culture to the works of Sophocles.

Kiosk: Journal of Geo-Politics (Fowler's Internet Library since September 1999)
 http://FowlerLibrary.com/Kiosk/ 
A solid reference resource with a large number of country listings, including maps, national flags, background information
from the CIA World Factbook, links to newspapers as well as other resources for general information, history and culture, language and translations, geography, government and politics, economy, and in-country sources.

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (PBSOL: Middle/High School)
http://pbs.org/greatwar/
This companion website to the PBS series offers new perspectives on World War I--the "war to end all wars"-- through interviews with renowned historians, as well as an interactive timeline on the war and its battles, a virtual slideshow, and related links and materials.

FindArticles.com (LookSmart and the Gale Group, publisher of library research and reference materials)
 http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml 
This site offers free access to the full-text of articles published in over 350 magazines and journals from 1998, with searchable database by keyword or nine subject categories.  Links to full-text articles are displayed at the FindArticles site, and links to periodical listings include a brief description.

OnlineNewspapers.com (Web Wombat)
 http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ 
This metasite indexes and links to the homepages of 10,000 online newspapers from around the world, by country, province or state.

Voices of the Holocaust (Illinois Institute of Technology - IIT)
 http://voices.iit.edu/ 
In 1998, the ILT library staff uncovered typescripts of 70 heart-wrenching interviews with Holocaust survivors, conducted in 1946, one year after liberation when these victims were still in displaced persons camps throughout Europe.  Some 200 hours of interviews were recorded by ILT Professor David Pablo Boder, who travelled to Europe for the interviews and later transcribed them into English. A profile, summary, and in some cases the audio recording accompanies the full text of these interviews, which may be browsed or searched by keyword.  

CIA World Factbook 2000 (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ 
One of the finest online resources on country information, this annual reference book offers maps, flags, and information on geography, population, government, economic, communication, literacy rates, transportation, military for more than 260 countries, as well as transnational issues.  Browsable  by field and topic.

britfilms.com

http://www.britfilms.com/

This site, produced by the Film and Television Department of the

British Council, features online versions of two useful publications

aimed at both film enthusiasts and film makers. Both publications are

offered in an easy-to-use database format; the data can be browsed,

searched, or sorted with relative ease. The first database is an

online version of _The British Films Catalogue_, an annual

publication that provides information about new and recent films

produced in Great Britain. It offers brief synopses of dozens of

feature films, shorts, and documentaries that are either in

production or are being released in 2000. In addition to a synopsis,

each film's entry supplies information about the cast, crew,

production company, and sales agent, and most entries include a still

taken from the film. Previous editions of the guide (dating back to

1998) are also contained in the database. The second offering at

britfilms.com is an online version of _The Directory of International

Film and Video Festivals_, which "lists over 500 international film,

television and video festivals, giving details on how and when to

enter these events." The list of festivals may be browsed in its

entirety, searched on several fields, or sorted by country. Paper

copies of both publications can also be ordered at the site. [SW]

16. DW3: Classical Music Resources

http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html

Billing itself "the most comprehensive collection of classical music

resources on the Web," DW3 (Duke World Wide Web) Classical Music

Resources boasts nearly 2,000 links to non-commercial pages and sites

in over a dozen languages. The metasite is divided into seven

principle sections, which break down into 118 subject-specific pages.

Most of the sections are prefaced with a short introduction, and all

are very well-organized. Many, but not all, of the links are

annotated, and very few (if any) of the resources listed are

commercial sites. An internal keyword search engine is also provided.

Jewish American Literature Research Homepage
http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/LangLit/dproyal/jewish.htm
Derek Royal's Home Page: Assistant Professor of English, Language and Literature Dept., North Georgia College and State Univ. [No Date]: http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/LangLit/dproyal/derek.htm
..Featured authors: Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth, Woody Allen, E.M. Broner, Art Spiegelman, Joseph Heller, Grace Paley, E.L. Doctorow...
...and Cynthia Ozick, the author that I am writing an article on this summer: http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/LangLit/dproyal/ozick.htm
Selected Bibliography of Texts on Jewish American Literature & Culture:
http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/LangLit/dproyal/jewtext.htm
Links to Sites on Literature and Literary Studies:
http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/LangLit/dproyal/literary.htm

Library of Congress [LOC] Home Page: http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Links to LOC Online Catalog - Entry Page: http://www.loc.gov/catalog/
"The Library of Congress Online Catalog ( http://catalog.loc.gov/ ) is a database of approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections. The Online Catalog also provides references, notes, circulation status, and information about materials still in the acquisitions stage."
LOC Online Catalog Search Page: http://catalog.loc.gov/
[My initial search using Keywords "Ozick, Cynthia" yielded 4,687 records, but the results are "relevance ranked."]

University of Oregon Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/ 
University of Oregon's History and Geography departments produced this visually
rich site. Users with Shockwave capability may enjoy over 50 interactive maps
representing American and world history; several dozen images related to world
history and culture are also included. 

World History

Ancient Roots, Modern Holidays
http://m2.aol.com/Donnpages/Holidays.html 
Discover the history of many modern holidays with the lesson plans at this site.
Holidays from many cultures are represented here, everything from President's day
to Kwanzaa. You'll also find calendars from around the world, recipes, clip art, and
Webcards. 

Anne Frank House
http://www.annefrank.nl/ 
This site provides photos of the house and annex in which the Franks hid from 1942
-1944, biographies of those who lived with and helped the Frank family, information
about Ann's diary, and descriptions of fleeing the Nazis and life in hiding and in the
concentration camps. Be patient, some of the photographs and photo
reconstructions take time to load. 

Art Safari
http://artsafari.moma.org/ 
This interactive adventure in looking will be fun for children, who will learn to analyze
famous works of art and write about them. Plus, they can make their own pictures
online and view the art work of other students. 

ARTSEDGE
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ 
The mission of ArtsEdge is to help artists, teachers and students gain access to and/or
share information, resources and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in
the K-12 curriculum. Teachers will find thorough information on current issues in arts
education, curriculum resources and even an online arts community. ArtsEdge is
developed under a cooperative agreement between the Kennedy Center and the
National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
http://www.carts.org/index.html 
This site offers a range of online resources related to traditional arts, folklore,
anthropology, and oral history, including RealAudio interviews. 

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/ 
What's not to like about 70,000 digital images of famous artwork available free on this
Web site? What's more, the images are available at various sizes and resolutions,
searchable by keyword, artist, country, or period, and browseable by medium/genre.
Teachers guides are also included. 

Modern Masterworks
http://hyperion.advanced.org/17142/home.shtml 
Created by a ThinkQuest team, the Modern Masterworks site gives a retrospective look
at the art of the 20th century. For teachers having trouble finding a "one-stop-shop" site
dealing with all of the major movements of the 20th century, from impressionism to
expressionism, they've got it all covered here! Take a virtual gallery tour, browse through
biographies of this century's greats, take a quiz and receive a monthly newsletter. 

Online Picasso Project
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/intro.html 
Texas A&M University brings you the life and works of Pablo Picasso in sixteen
periods, covering the years 1881-1973. Click on a year and read what happened and
what he did. Then click a margin photo and see where Picasso lived and worked or
click a thumbnail painting to view an enlargement. The site links to museums around
the world, some with photos of his work on exhibit. 

The Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/ 
This incredible site assembled by David Brooks of Toronto, Canada contains more than
2,830 pages and 2,775 graphics, 100% of Vincent van Gogh's works (2,211 paintings,
sketches, letter sketches, watercolors), a complete, online catalogue raisonn`e of Van
Gogh's oeuvre! Provides a site overview, a chronological and thematic index to his
works, biographical and other resources, links to recent news stories from around the
world, and free downloads. 

Web Gallery of Art
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html 
The Web Gallery of Art contains over 6,000 digital reproductions of European paintings
and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750. Many of the pictures are
discussed and biographies of the significant artists are given. A site search engine
allows you to find pictures in the collection using various search criteria. Seven guided
tours are presented, including the Sistine Chapel, Art of Spain, and Overview of Italian
Painters from 1200 to 1750. 

Worlds of Art
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ 
Explore the world of art with the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the Los
Angeles Culture Net. K-12 teachers will discover an innovative, interdisciplinary
approach to making use of the Internet to help bring Los Angeles's worlds of art into the
classroom. Teachers outside of Los Angeles can also use the lesson plans and
resources to build connections between art learning and the art worlds of their own
communities. 

World Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/ 
This site offers the definitive, interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts
information and culture on the Internet. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts
education, antiques, performing arts, classified ads, resume postings and more can be
can be accessed here. 

Humanities Through the Arts

KET -- Lexington, Kentucky

WWW> Station>

Middle/High School

Gain a deeper understanding of the connections between the arts and

their historical and cultural contexts with this site from Kentucky

Educational Television that was originally created as a distance

learning class. Visit online galleries for music, sculpture,

architecture and painting, peruse visual or audio samples of artwork

with concise descriptions, link to related resources and much more.

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/index.htm

5. Geography Hub

Geographers.com

http://www.geographers.com/

Biogeography.com

http://www.Biogeography.com/

CulturalGeography.com

http://www.culturalgeography.com/

UrbanGeography.com

http://www.urbangeography.com/

Though still very much under development, the Geography Hub will

likely become a major resource and online community for geography

students and professionals. The core of the present offerings is the

directory of geographers offered on Geographers.com. The directory is

divided into three categories: Physical Geographers, Human

Geographers, and Technical Geographers. Each is searchable by keyword

or name, and full search results include name, school, Website (when

applicable), field notes, and publications. A prototype search

engine, scheduled for release in October, will allow searching by

name, with modifiers for country, research field, region studied, and

level of education. All geographers are welcome to add themselves to

the directory. An additional feature at Geographers.com is Geography

Times, designed to be an online professional news services for

geographers. At present, the Times offers related headlines (last

updated August 31) and conference announcements (last updated August

13). Future plans for the site include online forums. Content

available at the other three sites in the Geography Hub is primarily

limited to (fairly detailed) collections of organized links. Anyone

interested in geography should bookmark one or more of these sites

and trace their development. [MD]

9. Concerns in Europe: January - June 2000 -- Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/2000/EUR/40100300.htm

This recently released and detailed bulletin from Amnesty

International contains information about the human rights

organization's main concerns in Europe between January and June 2000.

These are listed by country with one or more paragraph summaries. An

index is at the end of the report, which is available in HTML format

only (a .pdf version would have been an excellent addition). A useful

resource for anyone following human rights issues in Europe or those

interested in the work of Amnesty International. [MD]

 

10. SchoolHistory.co.uk [.pdf]

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/

Created and maintained by Andrew Field, a history teacher from

Cambridgeshire, England, this site features links and teaching and

learning aids for UK instructors and students. The primary content at

the site is organized into five year groups (Years 7-9, GSCE,

A-Level), each with related links, well-crafted .pdf worksheets, and

quizzes (some off-site). Some links to related education and history

sites round out the site. A nice example of a history site for

secondary students that can be used by teachers anywhere for its

content or as a model of effective Web design. [MD]

Daring to Resist

TV> PBSOL>

Middle/High School

Monday, September 25, 2000 (10:30-11:30 pm)

This special presents a portrait of three Jewish teenage girls who

fought Nazi genocide during WWII and how, despite losing their families

to the Nazis, these young women chose resistance rather than submission

and helped keep others alive. (CC, Stereo, 1 year)

At the companion site, view film clips and photos, read biographies on

the women, peruse a timeline of events, link to related resources,

access a transcript of the film as well as a teacher's guide.

http://pbs.org/daringtoresist/

 

Additional Links for some authors treated in Eng 109:
ENG 104 (Introduction to Literature - Fiction)
Links: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/authors2.htm

ENGLISH 109: Western World Literature (late 18th-20th c.)
ENG 109 Syllabus (Home Page):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/index.htm
ENG 109 Site Map:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/sitemap.htm

URL of this webpage: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/links3.htm

 

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