Tutorial on web search techniques (in Danish)
Search engines:
Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com
Google http://google.com
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Encyclopedia
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy To raise your level of erudition
Electronic text collections:
Bartleby electronic text collection (loads slowly) http://www.bartleby.com
The Online Books Page http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books
Representative Poems Online A large Canadian collection of mostly classical poems, but also some modern (English , American and Canadian)
The Academy of American Poets A quite large collection, including interesting audio files
Favorite Poem Project Videos with people reading aloud and commenting on their favorite poem. Many of the poems are great poems in English and American literature.
Poems of the Underground Nice collection of many of the classical poems.
Hypertext novel: Geoff Ryman, 253. Traces the thoughts and connections between 253 passengers on a London Underground train.
Metasites (collection of resources)
Norton Anthology Topics Online interesting and quite comprehensive collection
Voice of the shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/
American Writing Gateway http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/americanwritinggateway.htm
Twentieth -century authors http://www.ala.org/acrl/resdec99.html
The Scout Project annotated references to quality sites
Multimedieportal med engelskfaglige links, primært audio og video.
American authors on the web http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
Atlantic Monthly poetry site, incl. reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings/
WriteNet American site on poetry and creative writing. Interviews with the best living American poets (Kenneth Koch and John Ashbury a.o.)
Educational site on American literature http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/
American Studies Web http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/lit.html
Wired for Books: Readings and lectures of noted writers,Ohio University
Richard Horwitz, University of Iowa. Collection of links on American Studies, history, literature etc. http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/rhorwitz/
Online Literary Criticism http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
GradeSaver: Extensive site on literary classics
SparkNotes on literary classics made by Harvard graduates
The Modern Word. Extensive site on world literature.
British literature and anglophile resources http://www.britishliterature.com
Material on British authors (classical)
PBS Website on Shakespeare
Multi-cultural America in the West: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/index.htm
Newspapers and Magazines
Meta site with links to newspapers around the world http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
The New York Times
The New York Times books and audio archive. Organized alphabetically after the author. Very extensive and useful collection-
The New York Times book site. Rich source of literary material
The Guardian and the Observer book site (reviews, interviews, links etc.)
Net magazine Salon http://www.salon.com/
Double Take Magazine a literary and photographic quarterly http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/index.html
time magazine http://www.time.com/time/index.html
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/
New York Times http://nytimes.com In their books section e.g. they have special features on various authors, which are often very interesting. You have to register, though. It is not difficult, just follow the directions.
New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html
General sites of interest
Educational site on the history of Jim Crow.
BBC World War I. Lots of really interesting material, both historical and literary
Voices from the Days of Slavery Recordings of former slaves describing their lives as slaves (incl. transcriptions)
Site on lynching photos http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/
Masters of photography http://www.masters-of-photography.com/index.html
The Mississippi Writers Page http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/
Australian Heritage http://www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au/index.html
Documenting a Democracy Australia's story http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/home.htm
British Council site on education in the UK
Individual Authors
Philip Roth - New York times Speical on Philip Roth
Film
The Internet Movie Database Very extensive and useful database
Language
Visl Interactive grammar, quizzes, games
Gregers Friisbergs interaktive grammatik
Bookstores on the net:
Netbookstore amazon.com. Super fast delivery. In addition information about books, authors, and reviews http://www.amazon.co.uk
The Good Book Guide has reviews and articles about books and authors http://www.thegoodbookguide.co.uk/
Waterstone’s http://s1.waterstones.co.uk