Crossroads

 

Archipelago

Source: Archipelago.com
http://www.archipelago.org/contents.htm

This is one of the web's most appealing "magazines." Published quarterly, Archipelago is an eclectic mix of poetry, literary criticism, and commentary. The current issue features a selection of Gaelic poetry and images, but it also contains a photo-essay and a piece on Cormac McCarthy's stark and powerful "Blood Meridian."

 

Arts and Humanities Data Service

Source: Arts and Humanities Data Service/University of Oxford
http://ahds.ac.uk/about/index.htm
The University of Oxford has created this site to help interested individuals track down difficult to find texts. Many of this sites holdings are available for downloading free of charge. This site contains resources related to language and literature, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Other resources may be ordered from this site.

 

Documenting the American South

Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South (DAS), an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.

 

Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction

Source: Humanities Magazine
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/reconst...
This essay, published by the online version of "Humanities," the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides a succinct and informative overview of Reconstruction. These turbulent years set the stage for much subsequent southern political and social history. Even today the echoes of the social policies and cultural resentments inflect our nation's civic dialogue. For more detailed information see historian Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 or David Blight's Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.

 

Letters to A Young Poet

Source: SFGoth.com
http://www.sfgoth.com/~immanis/rilke/letter1.html
Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. This site supplies the full text of all 10 letters, as translated by poet Stephen Mitchell. Click here to purchase an excellent edition of Mitchell's translation of the Letters to A Young Poet. If you would like to see the fruit of Rilke's thought, check out The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, also translated by Stephen Mitchell.

 

Marx & Engels, Oh What A Pair

Source: Marxist.org
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/

Hitherto, wrote Karl Marx, "men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be." Sure, but Karl doesn't pay much attention to the fabrications people thrust upon others--so we'll take care of that. This is the place to go if you want to research what Karl Marx, the man who claimed that, "One thing I'm not is a Marxist," believed. That quote may be apocryphal, but this site isn't. This page provides online access to just about everything Marx and Engels wrote. And you can print it all too! To each according to his need, indeed.

 

Medical Humanities Resources

Source: New York University
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/medhum.html
This site, hosted by New York University, is a clearinghouse for resources related to health care and the humanities. The information here will be of interest to anyone wishing to use the insights of literature, philosophy, or any other humanities discipline, to understand the process of caregiving. This site also provides a selection of sample syllabi for teachers that are composing a course related to the medical humanities.

 

Narrative Self

Source: Guardian Unlimited
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1...
In this essay, Galen Strawson, professor of philosophy at the University of Reading, takes issue with the idea that our lives are narratives that we can consciously construct. Whereas scholars in most any field in the humanities treat this narrativizing trait as an essential component of human self-understanding, Strawson argues that not everyone pays this must attention to the "story" of their life. Furthermore, Strawson argues, the constant narrative revisions required by those that tell tales of themselves change the initial story, ultimately moving individuals further and further away from any sense of accurate self-understanding.

 

Oh Mies, Oh My

Source: MOMA
http://www.moma.org/mies/
Mies Van Der Rohe was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. This site, a project of the Berlin Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney, displays a large number of images and substantial textual information detailing the two phases in his career. For the first 30 years of his professional career, Van Der Rohe lived and worked in Germany; for the second 30 he moved to America. This unique site, created to accompany a joint exhibit hosted by the two museums, grants equal time to each phase in this master architect's career.

 

Resource for Young Author's (or Deconstructionists) and the Folks

Source: Midland Information Technology & Publishing
http://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/index.htm
Hey kids, this site features a story-writing computer that will help you with your very own stories. Begin with a list of words and a starter idea, and this site will help you compose your first masterpiece.

 

Tell Me About Your Mother

Source: Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/freud01.html
Not only did he slow the rate of lobotomies and unearth our repressed sexual desires, he was the best thing in 2000 years to happen to Sophocles! Freud, love him or hate him, has exerted a staggering influence on humanity's modern self-image. Now is the time to take you revenge: learn all you care to about the man that spilled the beans about you and your mother! This site, the companion piece to the Library of Congresses "Freud: Culture & Conflict" exhibit of a few years ago, displays a tremendous amount of information related to the life and work of the "father" of psychoanalysis. If you feel like digging deeper into Freud, check out the collection of peculiar cases compiled in the recently re-translated The Wolfman and Other Cases. For those hoping to gain broader insights, check out The Freud Reader or Peter Gay's biography Freud: A Life for Our Time.

 

The Digital Dante

Source: Columbia University
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/
The ILTweb Digital Dante Project is a long-term effort of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University to prototype and develop an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource combining traditional elements of scholarly research with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked digital technology.

 

Words Without Borders

Source: Words Without Borders
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/
As the site says, "Words Without Borders undertakes to promote international communication through translation of the world's best writing--selected and translated by a distinguished group of writers, translators, and publishing professionals--and publishing and promoting these works (or excerpts) on the web."

 

You Can't Click On. You'll Click On.

Source: The University of California, Santa Barbara
http://beckett.english.ucsb.edu/
This site has all you ever wanted to know about Samuel Beckett. In addition to images and biographical information, this site hosts the Samuel Beckett Society web page.