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- Art
- Artchive of over 200
artists and 2,000 scans, as well as galleries, reviews, and
art links. By Mark Harden.
- ArtServe -- Art and
architecture of the Mediterranean Basin, tutorials and reference works
on art history, from the Australian National University.
- Metropolitan Museum of
Art, including collections and special exhibitions
- Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, including the ImageBase, an image and
text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco -- the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor
- Web Museum,
Paris
Other locations are available at the WebMuseum Network.
- World Wide Arts Resources, "the
largest gateway to the arts", from the traditional to cyber-art, as well
as crafts and commercial art.
- Dance
- Hula in
Hawaii by Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, reprinted from the
International Encyclopedia of Dance with publisher's
permission, by Paul Waters
- The Hula
Pages includes hula vocabulary, steps, lyrics, apparel, more.
- Voice of Dance:
Where Dance Lives presents reviews, an image gallery, dance
events, classes and studios, and dance links. Created by Grants for the
Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, and Dance Magazine.
- English-as-a-Second-Language
- Graphics
- Humanities
- EDSITEment "brings
together the best of the humanities on the web" and "links to the top
sites in the subject areas of history and social studies, English and
language arts, foreign languages and art history." EDSITEment was
developed by a public-private partnership between the National Endowment
for the Humanities, MCI Communications Corporation, and the Council of
the Great City Schools.
- The EServer at the University of Washington offers
over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of the
humanities, including history, philosophy, cultural theory, art, music,
more. (Formerly The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University.)
- Voice of the Shuttle Web
Page for Humanities Research is a treasure trove of links to a range of
resources. By Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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- Languages
- Animated American Sign
Language Dictionary includes resources for and about the Deaf
community, as well as animated depictions of signs. Created and
maintained by Randy Stine.
Animated ASL Dictionary No frames
- The Human-Languages
Page links over 1,600 language-related Internet resources, such
as online dictionaries, language lessons, and literature. By Tyler
Chambers.
- Romance Language Resources collected and maintained by Carolyn
Kotlas at the Institute for Academic
Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill include:
- yourDictionary.com
includes many for languages, as well as links to online translators.
Compiled and managed by Robert Beard. (Formerly A Web of Online
Dictionaries.)
- Literature
- Cambridge History of
English and American Literature is "considered the most important
work of literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the
English language."
- Cornell
University Library Literature Page includes literary criticism and
bibliographies for authors of Fiction
and Poetry.
- English
Literature Main Page of the Voice
of the Shuttle links to Web pages about authors and their works, such
as Modern
and Contemporary
American and British literature, and genres, such
as Poetry.
- The EServer at
the University of Washington for poetry, drama, film, and language
studies. (Formerly The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University.)
- A
Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
by Robert Harris of Southern California College
- IPL Online Literary
Criticism Collection organizes over 1,000 critical and
biographical Websites about American, British, and international
authors and their works, selected for their usefulness. Browse by author,
title, or literary period. Part of the Internet Public Library (IPL).
- Literary
Resources on the Net are comprehensive: Classical and Biblical,
Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian, British,
Irish, and American Literature; Theater and Drama; Literary Theory;
Women's Literature, Ethnicities and Nationalities; Bibliography; and
History of the Book. Maintained by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor of
English, Rutgers University.
- Literature Resource Center (LRC)
LRC is comprised of Gale Group's core literary reference sources, such as Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), and Contemporary Literary Criticism. LRC includes biographies, critical analyses, bibliographies, and Web sites. Our LRC page explains the coverage of the LRC database.
Note: Honolulu Community College Library card required.
- Literatures
Other Than English, presented by Voice of the Shuttle
- SparkNotes are study
guides written by over 100 Harvard students and graduates. Topics include
Literature and Poetry.
- Voices From
the Gaps: Women Writers of Color focuses on the lives and works of
women writers of color in the United States and Canada. It is a
collaboration between the Department of English and the Program in
American Studies, University of Minnesota.
- Electronic Books Page compiled by HCC
Library points to collections of online books on the Web.
- Japanese Literature
- Japanese
Literature Links compiled by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Associate
Professor at Nagoya University
- Japanese Text
Initiative, is a collaborative effort between the University of
Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh
East Asian Library to make texts of classical Japanese literature
available on the World Wide Web.
- Poetry
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- Movies
- Music
- CDNow
(Formerly Music Boulevard.)
- Essentials of
Music is an introduction to classical music, divided by eras and
composers. It includes audio excerpts.Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company.
- Huapala Hawaiian Music and Hula
Archives
- Ultimate Band List of
interactive music links. Artists and bands can be browsed alphabetically,
by genre, or by Internet resource. Information may include Web sites,
FAQs, lyrics, audio and video, guitar tablatures, tour info, newsgroups, and
mailing lists.
- Welcome
to the World of Classical Music can be searched by composer or
artist. Presented by getmusic.com.
- World Wide Music
presents over 50,000 albums.
- Mythology and Folklore
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Comparative
Religion: A Directory of Internet Resources for the Academic Study
of Religion. Compiled and organized by Mike Madin, hosted by Academic Info, a
subject-based directory of Internet resources of particular interest to
students and researchers.
- Internet Sacred
Texts Archive contains sacred literature of traditional, Eastern,
and Western religions.
- Religion
On-line Books Page
- The Vatican. In six
languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
- Bhagavad-Gita,
translated by Edwin Arnold
- Bible: King James
Version, by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
- Bible: Revised
Standard Version, by the University of Michigan Digital Library
Initiative
- Bible: New
Testament (Rheims 1582), by the University of Michigan Digital
Library Initiative
- Book of Mormon,
by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
- The Gospel of
Buddha, compiled by Paul Carus
- The Koran,
by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
- The
Tâo Te Ching of Lao Tzu, translated by James Legge
- The
Upanishads, translated by Max Müller
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- Speeches
- Writing
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