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Kentucky

Actor's Theatre of Louisville

"The Actor's Theatre of Louisville is one of the leading nonprofit regional stage companies in the United States. From this site, you can get information about current and upcoming productions and theatre news."

Renfro Valley

"Renfro Valley is Kentucky's Country Music Capital. At this site, you can get information about current and upcoming performances and events, announcements, audio clips, and more."

Kentucky Writers and Literature

This site is browsable by author's name. It links to writing and biographical information on the author's listed.

KYLIT: A site devoted to Kentucky Writers

"This site is devoted to the study of both native Kentucky writers and those who have chosen Kentucky as their home." It is maintained by the English Department at EKU. It provides biographical information on Kentucky authors and a bibliography of works.

Art

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Art: General

ArtLex

"You will find definitions of more than 2,800 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web." The author got his ` from the University of Chicago and teaches art to elementary school students.

ArtSource

"Welcome to ArtSource, a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc. This site is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive." Included is a guide to electronic exhibitions.

Internet ArtResources

Internet ArtResources provides access to galleries and museums online. In addition, this site contains feature articles and reviews of art and is searchable. This first class site is designed for everyone interested in art.

Digital Archive of American Architecture

At this site, you are able to view images of American architecture from the 17th century through the 20th century. This is an excellent site to see images of American architecture.

Art: Education

ArtsEdge

"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."

ArtsEdNet

"ArtsEdNet, an online service developed by the J. Paul Getty Trust, supports the needs of the K-12 arts education community. It focuses on helping arts educators, general classroom teachers using the arts in their curriculum, museum educators, and university faculty involved in art education." This is an excellent site.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)

AICT contains works documented through the images that have been indexed according to their inclusion in a number of widely used undergraduate art history survey textbooks. "A place of free-exchange of image resources for the educational community."

Art: History

Art History Network

This site is "a one stop resource for Art History, Archaeology and Architecture resources on the web." It covers "Early Eastern Art" (Babylonian and Akkad) and Western art history.

Art History Resources on the Web

This comprehensive site provides global coverage of art history. Those studying art history best use this superior site.

Humanities

Voice of the Shuttle

The mission of the Voice of the Shuttle is "to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media." This is an excellent site for anyone doing research in the Humanities.

Victorian Web

At this site, you will find "anything and everything about the Victorian period. It includes political and social history, gender studies, philosophy, religion, science, technology and more." Anyone doing research in the humanities will find this site rich in resources.

Rhetoric

A Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

This site was created by Robert Harris, Professor of English at Southern California College in Costa Mesa, California and allows you to search either rhetorical devices or literary terms.

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Literature

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Criticism & Interpretations and Reviews

Online Literary Criticism Collection

"The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 2504 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."

Luminarium

This site covers Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th century Western literature. Luminarium is beautifully designed and easy to use.

New York Times Book Reviews

"The Books section contains The New York Times Book Review, daily reviews from The New York Times, and a free archive of over 50,000 book reviews dating back to 1980. In addition, you'll find expanded bestseller lists and specials available only on the Web site, such as audio interviews and features devoted to your favorite authors." This is a great site to find book reviews.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature Online

"A milestone for online publishing, the eighteen-volume collection comprises the largest public reference work of literary criticism and history on the Internet. Bartleby.com's presentation divides this mammoth work by subject into over 5,600 files, which are fulltext searchable, and includes indexes by chapter, bibliography and chapter author."

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

"This site attempts two things:To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet and to present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet." The site has criticism, biography (also addresses the authorship question), information about Elizabethan theatre, as well as the works of Shakespeare.

Literary Resource on the Net

This site provides links to literary criticism, works, and other supporting resources. Organized by literary periods with an emphasis on western literature. Literatures of the world are also covered. Maintained by Jack Lynch, an asst. professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University.

Collected Works

Fiction Collection

This easy to use site is ideal for anyone looking for fiction online. The English Server at Carnegie Mellon brings this service to us. The Fiction Collection has been online for 10 years and provides access to over 27,000 works of fiction.

Victorian Women Writers Project

"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."

Fairy tales/Folklore and Myths

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

This site is a collection of hyperlinks to text and image archives containing English versions of folklore, fairy tales, fables, and mythology. This is a great site for anyone interested in folklore.

AESOP's Fables

"This site includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) translated most into English. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimms Fairy Tales." This site is an excellent resource for anyone looking for fables and fairy tales.

Hans Christian Andersen

This site contains the electronic texts of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales and stories. Anyone looking for information on Hans Christian Andersen and his fairy tales will find the site invaluable.

Poetry

The Academy of American Poets

At this site you will find thematic poetry exhibits that are browsable. This site contains a search engine that allows you to search for poets by name. The Academy of American Poets is great for anyone interested in American Poetry.

The CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse

One of the many collections of the EServer (English Server), The CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse contains "original and classic verse, literary and poetic theory."

American Verse Project

This site is a part of the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative. This site is digitizing volumes of american poetry published prior to 1920. You can browse or search the full trext of the poetry.

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Foreign Languages

A Web of Online Dictionaries

This site provides access to over 1000 links to online foreign language dictionaries in over 190 languages. This outstanding site is for anyone learning a foreign language.

The German Language Page

This site is a collection of resources for learning German. It is a terrific site for both student and teacher.

Foreign Languages for Travelers

This site provides translations on commonly used phrases and also has a recording of the phrase linked so that you can hear how it should sound.

Translators

AltaVista Translations

Use AltaVista Translations to translate text and webpages from English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. The site also provides translations from other languages to English. Use caution when using this site, it is unable to translate idioms or phrases. This site is good for students learning a foreign language.

Welcome to GO Translator

This site provides translations for both text and webpages from English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. As well as translating from a foreign language into English (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish). Use caution when using this site, it is unable to translate idioms or phrases. This site is good for students learning a foreign language.

SYSTRAN Online Translation

SYSTRAN Online Translation is a service that translates text and webpages from English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. In addition, this site provides translations from other languages to English (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish). Use caution when using this site, it is unable to translate idioms or phrases. This site is good for students learning a foreign language.

last updated:6/20/00