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Web Sites of the Month
August 1999


site of the month Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website
Naming itself after the title of Walter Benjamin's first collection of essays in English, Illuminations presents itself as a growing research resource containing writings about and especially influenced by the Frankfurt School theorists: Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Fromm, Habermas and Horkheimer. Located at the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Humanities, the site showcases in particular writings by Douglas Kellner on topics from Brecht to Baudrillard via feminism, British Cultural Studies and advertising. Writings directly by and about some of the Frankfurt theorists are thin in places, although the growing body of writings by what the site classes as the 'next generation' continuing that tradition of critique is impressive, as is its list of 'Critical Links'. The site actively invites contributions. (SS)
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
site of the month English Literature and Religion
English Literature and Religion, created by William S. Peterson, University of Maryland, is an impressive site comprising an extensive bibliography documenting primary and secondary material relating to the portrayal of religion in English Literature, especially literature of the 17th and 19th centuries and in the Anglican tradition. Currently the bibliographic database itself is not available online (though the author plans to make it so) but a full formatted copy of the bibliography is available in PDF format (around 6,000 citations). Helpfully, there are also a selection of topic-based bibliographies (e.g. The Oxford Movement, The English Bible, John Keble, T.S. Eliot). The Book of Common Prayer forms a special topic on this site and as well as a bibliography, there is also a PDF copy of the 1549 BCP. The site is supplemented by an extensive page of links and a border formed from William Morris's Daisy wallpaper. (MF)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ENGL/englfac/WPeterson/ELR/elr.htm
site of the month Centre d'Edition de Textes Electroniques
The Centre d'Edition de Textes Electronique publish rare or unpublished material in French via the Web. Their site provides access to digital versions of Medieval, 16th century and later texts. The Medieval texts are MS 19152 (of the Biblioteque National de France) and Chrétien de Troyes' 'Le Chevalier de la Charrette' (Lancelot). The 16th century text is Bernard Palissy's 'Discours Admirables de la Nature des Eaux et Fonteines...'. For MS 19152 and 'Discours Admirables...' facsimiles of every folio and two transcriptions are available. One transcription retains original spelling, abbreviation, most contractions, with editorial comment on missing or illegible characters; the other is a modernisation, with expanded abbreviations, accents, punctuation, and modern spelling. Eight versions of 'Le Chevalier de la Charrette' are available - each one a transcription of a particular manuscript version. The Web page uses frames, and one can view two versions of the document at any one time. For example, one can compare different versions of 'Le Chevalier de la Charrette', or look at the facsimile and transcriptions of 'Discours Admirable...' Those interested in looking at this valuable site should use a frames-capable and Java-compliant Web browser, such as Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4 or higher. (FC)
http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/cete/cete.html

site of the month Thinking About DeLillo's White Noise
This site has been chosen as a site of the month as much for its interesting online teaching method as for what it has to offer about DeLillo. Clearly the work of a Web and a DeLillo enthusiast, the site is designed by Philipp Schweighauser as part of a course in the Department of English at the University of Basel. It makes a tidy and effective use of frames, whereby a task is described in the left hand frame requiring readers to respond to a variety of remote Web resources on DeLillo which then appear in the right hand frame. Answers are then mailed to the tutor following a link in the left frame. The site offers a small and simple example of how the resources of the Web which a tutor already knows of might be harnessed and interrogated to good effect within courses, whether on campus or at a distance. (SS)
http://www.unibas.ch/anglist/delillo/index.html

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