Das DFG-geförderte Sondersammelgebiet "Allgemeine u. Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft" (SSG 7.12) versteht sich als zentrale deutsche Anlaufstelle für die komparatistische Informationsversorgung.
Primärquellen zur US-Amerikanischen Geschichte von 1859 bis 1877. Ca. 5000 Bände sind mit OCR digitalisiert. MOA ist seit 1995 ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen der Cornell University und der University of Michigan. Die Hauptauswahl der Sekundärliteratur umfasst die Erscheinungsjahre 1840 bis 1900.
Although one could argue that the genre dates back millennia, Samuel Smiles coined a new term when he published Self-Help in 1859 consequently opening the floodgates to authors attempting to solve the world’s problems one narcissistic step at a time. If one searches the term “self help” in Google today, almost fifty-eight million matches will be returned. An arguably large segment of the self-help phenomena involves books that assist us in specific areas such as personal finance, knitting, or sex. The “For Dummies” publisher alone has over seventy-eight thousand titles currently available on Amazon.com. This is not a modern day marvel. A vast array of how-to books was available to readers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Starting with the premise that these books purport to be the final word on the matter, examples of early manuals, templates, recipe books, diagrams, and “(...)
Der Tutor bietet eine Einführung in die in Freiburg vorhandenen elektronischen Informationsmittel für das Fach Anglistik und eröffnet die Perspektive auf die im Internet verfügbaren Quellen.
Anglistik Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant Internet resources on Anglo-American language and literature. The guide is part of the Literature section in the Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture (VLib-AAC).
All resources are described and evaluated with a full set of Dublin Core enhanced metadata. New resources are continuously added to the record database, already catalogued ones regularly revisited and updated.
Lewis Carroll's children's books especially Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are widely known and celebrated. Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll, at the International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street from June 6 through August 31, 2003, makes a new argument for Carroll's importance as a photographer. This exhibition of vintage albumen prints from the 1850's through the 1870's organized by Douglas R. Nickel, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive American presentation of Lewis Carroll's remarkable photographic work in fifty years.
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
The Lewis Carroll picture book; a selection from the unpublished writings and drawings of Lewis Carroll, together with reprints from scarce and unacknowledged work. Edited by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
The Homepage of Thomas De Quincey is devoted to the study of the life and writings of the nineteenth-century English essayist and opium addict Thomas De Quincey. In addition to a biography, a chronology, and a series of links to other revelant material, the site contains an extensive bibliography that lists more than 200 titles by and about De Quincey.
The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress is an original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children’s author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. The scrapbook contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and a limited number of manuscript materials, collected between 1855-72. A timeline, authored by Edward Wakeling, former chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society, helps to place materials found in the scrapbook in their proper context.
by Victoria Allison
There is something singularly pathetic about a national dream based on an aging one-time dictator and the memory of a woman who has been dead for 20 years
Here I would like to focus on three related aspects of these aesthetics, namely: 1) their constitutive hybridity; 2) their chronotopic multiplicity; and 3) their common motif of the redemption of detritus. After arguing the special qualifications of the cinema for realizing such a hybrid, multitemporal aesthetics, I will conclude with the case of the Brazilian "aesthetics of garbage" as the point of convergence of all our themes, specifically examining three films literally and figuratively "about" garbage.
Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Wörter, Töne, Bilder. Faschismustheorie. Theorie der Gewalt. Gender Studies. Theorie der Medien. Popkultur. Film Kunst und Macht Pocahontas. Geschichte(n) zur (fortdauernden) Erfindung Amerikasund zu den (fortdauernden) Kolonialism
to foster clear writing and clear thinking, to stress social awareness, aesthetic appreciation and intellectual growth; causing students to set their individual lives against the larger backdrops of history and culture through the study of language and li
This is a story about the sixties: it's about me and some friends of mine, it's about Berkeley, and it's about Pynchon. It's about a decade in which we were all young together and thought we would stay young forever. By Andrew Gordon