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Whom Does Service Learning Really Serve? Community-Based Organizations' Perspectives on Service Learning

Blouin,D . "Whom Does Service Learning Really Serve? Community-Based Organizations' Perspectives on Service Learning" Teaching Sociology [0092-055X] 37.2 (2009). 120-135.

Science Inquiry, Academic Language, and Civic Engagement

Buxton,C A . "Science Inquiry, Academic Language, and Civic Engagement" Democracy & education [1085-3545] 18.3 (2009). 17-22.

PMLA

PMLA
-from JSTOR
continues Transactions and Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America (1886-1887)
Holdings: 1889-2001

PMLA

PMLA
-from publisher website
Holdings: 2002-

Journal of Modern Literature

Journal of Modern Literature
-from Project Muse
Holdings: 1998-

Victorian Studies

Victorian Studies
-from Project Muse
Holdings: 1999-

New Literary History

New Literary History
-from Project Muse
Focuses on interpretation and theory.
Holdings: 1995-

Modern Fiction Studies

Modern Fiction Studies
-from Project Muse
Holdings: 1985-

Modern Fiction Studies

Modern Fiction Studies
-from Literature Online Full-Text Journals
Holdings: 2002-

ELH : English Literary History

ELH : English Literary History
-from JSTOR
NOTE: Recent issues of this title (for the years 1995-2005) contain links to articles available through other online resources.
Holdings: 1934-

ELH : English Literary History

ELH : English Literary History
-from Literature Online Full-Text Journals
Holdings: 2002-

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
-from Literature Online Full-Text Journals
Bibliographic citations with indexing for all aspects of English literature, literary culture, and linguistics. Topics covered include: English prose, poetry, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, and studies of individual authors; language, syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, and dialectology; bibliography, manuscript studies, textual studies, history of publishing; traditional culture of the English-speaking world, customs, beliefs, narratives, song, dance, and material culture.
Holdings: 1920- Annual updates lag by one year.

JSTOR

Lessons from Japanese Fan Culture

The focus of my research was participatory fan culture. I investigated the practices of dojinshi and fansubbing in Japan and tried to understand why these infringing fan activities are generally permitted. Dojinshi is homemade manga that is sold by amateur fan artists. Fansubbing (which I focus on to a lesser degree) is the practice of copying and dubbing Japanese animation into English. Then, I tried to determine whether the rationale that permits dojinshi and fansubbing in Japan could be imported to the United States to govern the treatment of creative fan endeavors like fan fiction and fan films. I've concluded that to allow a dojinshi-like commercialization of fan work in the U.S., we would have to refine fair use analysis to protect derivative work that complements (rather than competes with) underlying work.

JSTOR: Harvard Law ReviewVol. 115, No. 7 (May, 2002), pp. 1988-2009

This article focuses on the practice of literary rewriting, where characters and plots of existing literature are developed into new works. It defends the recent body of literary rewrites as a genre unto itself, but warns that its practice is threatened by oversimplified copyright doctrine. The author first discusses 3 modern literary theories that complicate notions of originality and in doing so challenge copyright's authority to bar rewriting. The ideas of “the death of the author,” “the anxiety of influence,” and “marginality” in literature destabilize the concept of authorship and suggest that rewriting is a necessary method for creating new, valid works. It cites Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone as a rewrite of Gone with the Wind which acts on the literary theory of marginality by giving a voice to slaves from the world of the original novel. The novel's allowance as parody, however, is an oversimplification of its nuanced commentary. This parody-based fair use qualification ends up limiting works of rewriting that don't necessarily criticize underlying work, but take new perspectives and shed new light upon it. The article further argues that rewriting always occurs in respect to significant “canon” work. The existence of literary rewriting simply identifies works that have been already been rewarded with success; it does not inhibit innovation or bar progress.

This article is significant for its support of rewriting as a valid means of expression that propagates new ideas, rather than opposing it as a lazy practice that inhibits innovation. Although rewritten work does not always parody underlying work, it is innovative because it offers new and original (to the extent that the word may be used) perspectives on older works. Furthermore, rewriting tends to identify original works by copying only those works that are considered significant, or “canon,” enough to be worth updating. The article does not refer to Japanese dojinshi. However, a similar understanding of rewriting appears to guide the response to dojinshi in Japan, where original characters are rewritten into new situations or altered in a way that changes our understanding of original work. The idea that work can be fair use without being parody has become a major theme in my research and supports the argument that certain types of creative fan endeavors should be protected as fair use.

New Deal Publishing History

Serious game / Hjalmar Soderberg ; translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson.

Soderberg, Hjalmar, 1869-1941. . Serious game / Hjalmar Soderberg ; translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson. [0714530611 (pbk.) ] London ; New York : M. Boyars, 2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PT9875.S6 A713 2001

Doctor Glas : a novel / Hjalmar Soderberg ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin.

Soderberg, Hjalmar, 1869-1941. . Doctor Glas : a novel / Hjalmar Soderberg ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin. [0385722672 ] New York : Anchor Books, 2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PT9875.S6 D613 2002

Berattelsen om Sam / Per Olof Sundman.

Sundman, Per Olof, 1922- . Berattelsen om Sam / Per Olof Sundman. [911771012X : ] Stockholm : Norstedt, 1977.
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab PT9876.29.U5 B38

Skytten : [roman].

Sundman, Per Olof, 1922- . Skytten : [roman]. Stockholm : P.A. Norstedt, [1965, c1960]
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab 839.71 Su73S

Mina drommars stad, [roman].

Fogelstrom, Per Anders, 1917- . Mina drommars stad, [roman]. Stockholm, Bonniers, [1970, c1960].
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab PT9875.F613 M4 1970

Kreutzer sonata and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and J.D. Duff ; edited with an introduction and notes by Richard F. Gustafson.

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. . Kreutzer sonata and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and J.D. Duff ; edited with an introduction and notes by Richard F. Gustafson. [0192832352 (alk. paper) ] Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PG3366.A15 M38 1997

JSTOR: Critical Inquiry: Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 130

Technopoetics. cited by Gitelman Scripts Grooves

Noise of culture : literary texts in a world of information / William R. Paulson.

Paulson, William R., 1955- . Noise of culture : literary texts in a world of information / William R. Paulson. [0801421020 (alk. paper) ] Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN98.I54 P38 1988

Language machines : technologies of literary and cultural production / edited by Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy Vickers.

Language machines : technologies of literary and cultural production / edited by Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy Vickers. [0415918634 (alk. paper) ] New York : Routledge, 1997.
Call#: Van Pelt Library P35 .L334 1997

"The Voice in the Machine: Hazlitt, Hardy, James" cited by Gitelman Scripts Grooves.

Cinematic imagination; writers and the motion pictures.

Murray, Edward. . Cinematic imagination; writers and the motion pictures. [0804426430 ] New York, Ungar [1972]
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995.3 .M8

authors and dramatists referencing film.

Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies / James L. Harner.

This is a selective guide to the best resources (both print and online) for students doing literary research. Each entry is annotated to explain what is is and why it is useful.

Gutenkarte B; Book Catalog

Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics

Holland, Norman N. Holland's guide to psychoanalytic psychology and literature-and-psychology

Call#: Van Pelt Library BF173 .H718 1990

Holland, Norman N. Holland’s Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.

This is an introductory guide to the psychoanalytic study of literature, which considers psychoanalysis not as a science but as a hermeneutic, a "system for interpreting texts" (13). Holland provides a useful "Topical Outline" of psychoanalysis which stands as a sketch of its historical development.

Innocence Abroad: Henry James and the Re-Invention of the American Woman Abroad

"Innocence Abroad: Henry James and the Re-Invention of the American Woman Abroad" The Henry James review [0273-0340] 22.2 (2001). 107-.

Daisy Miller: Cowboy Feminist

"Daisy Miller: Cowboy Feminist" The Henry James review [0273-0340] 22.1 (2001). 41-.

Rollins, Peter C. “The Vietnam War: Perceptions Through Literature, Film, and Television.” American Quarterly. (1984). JSTOR. Oklahoma State University. University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia. 31 Mar. 2006. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%281984%2936%3A3%3C419%3ATVWPTL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q.

This article discusses how literature, film, and television have interpreted the Vietnam War. The article argues that artists have struggled to create convincing metaphors for the war and its effects in their works, and because of the nature of the content these works have been very controversial.

The article begins by exploring the different ways in which novelists have explored the themes of the war. Many of the writers, writing from the point of view of soldiers, chose to focus on the theme of loss of innocence.

Next, the article discusses how filmmakers have interpreted the Vietnam War. Here, the article mentions The Deer Hunter. The article argues that this film is probably the most ambitious of the Vietnam films in its attempt to discuss themes of American life, but criticizes it for losing its focus at times. The themes the film attempts to explore, according to the article, are sexual and ethnic identity, the individual versus society, and civilization versus nature. The article explains that the film reaches no real conclusion about any of these issues; instead, it remains ambivalent, echoing the opinions of many Americans on such subjects.

The article concludes by exploring how television has explored the Vietnam War, examining news casts, documentaries, and propaganda. It discusses the role of Vietnam as the first “television war,” and examines how the use of television affected how Americans perceived the war and America’s role in it.

By examining the different ways each medium has treated the issue of the Vietnam War, the article concludes with a call to researchers and scholars to examine these differences and to find connections between the different interpretations.

Good War's greatest hits : World War II and American remembering / by Philip D. Beidler.

Beidler, Philip D.. Good War's greatest hits : World War II and American remembering / by Philip D. Beidler. [0820320013 (alk. paper)] Athens : University of Georgia, c1998.

Call#: Van Pelt Library D744.55 .B45 1998

In this book, Beidler examines The Best Years of Our Lives as a film in the postwar genre he names “remembering in wartime,” a style which involves the “commondification of the American role in World War II as at once felt as experience and collective myth.” He credits these films, especially when produced as well as The Best Years of Our Lives was, as playing an integral role in shaping popular attitudes and understand of the war for posterity. Focusing specifically on this film, he credits it with being so successful at this because of its success in being executed the way its creator, Samuel Goldwyn, envisioned: as the “people’s film.” Every detail of the film was carefully examined so as to ensure the film would be as believable as possible. For example, the omission of a veterans’ housing riot scene, the “close-to-home domestic seriousness of the film’s psychological concerns” lent to it by filming in black and white, and the requirement that all actors wear ready-made clothing, and that they wear it even prior to filming so as to break the clothes in and give them a more authentic feel. In addition, the title of the film was decided by popular vote, selected by testing audiences.

Beidler also examines how the use of cinematography serves make The Best Years of Our Lives as true to life as possible. Most notabely, he delineates the production of “democratic shots,” in which innovative camera techniques allow for the focusing on all subjects and actions taking place in a given scene, allowing the audience to decide what to focus on. These “democratic shots” that encompass all action taking place within a given scene also lend the film the feeling of a home video. This point in particular is emphasized in the wedding scene at the end, where the guests’ mingling beforehand, the feeling of close quarters and sense of intimacy in Homer’s family’s small living room and anticipation of the bride are all conveyed through the filming. These insights into efforts to humanize the film and make it as accessible to audiences as possible plays a large role in understanding how the film was able to suceed in allowing people to relate to it, from plot to prop to filming. These less obvious qualities of the film, though small, contribute to audience’s ability to connect with it and its message, rendering it an effective tool in remembering of Word War II, specifically the profound way it changed everything.

Visions of war : World War II in popular literature and culture / edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield.

Visions of war : World War II in popular literature and culture / edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield. [0879725559] Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN56.W3 V57 1992

This book examines the portrayal of the war at different stages in books and movies of the time, and draws a correllation between the movie and the purpose it was considered to serve. In the essay “New Heroes: Post-War Hollywood’s Image of World War II,” Philip Landon strives to characterize the common war film of postwar period. He claims that “war films of that time shared a myth essentially similar to the western,” films that lacked critical acclaim due to their uniformity and generic context in portraying the war. As Paul Fussell wrote, “Hollywood shared the mass media’s aversion to examining the actual horrors of the War’s mechanized battle fronts.” The attempts of these war films were not to push any limits as far as conventions, depth and complexity of story, and level of provocation, but rather sought to create a “mythic hero remarkably well-suited to the mood and circumstances of post-war America,” as it was perceived by the studios.

This observation raises an interesting point touched upon in the biography of Samuel Goldwyn. During the war, Hollywood naturally made heroic war tales to instill sentiments of hope and pride in American citizens. However, Hollywood generally tended to apply this same belief to the immediate post-war period, Goldwyn included. Any actual dramatic portrayal of the war and its negative effects was considered a risky bet, especially casting a real-life double amputee with hooks for hands. But as the ARI analysis and the film's wild success both demonstrated, Americans were no longer disillusioned about the war, and in some way, shape or form, were seeking an outlet for this. The war had profound and negative effects on their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons who brought these effects home with them. The ability of The Best Years of Our Lives to translate the true-to-life experiences of returning veterans from all ages and socio-economic levels to film was groundbreaking at the time, and was what the American public wanted to see.

A Literary Map of Manhattan (NYT Book Review feature)

"This interactive map shows some of the places "where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked and looked at ducks." View the locations on the map, or browse by author or title. Some of the almost 100 book titles represented include "The Invisible Man," "Harriet the Spy," "The Great Gatsby," and "James and the Giant Peach." From a 2005 New York Times Book Review feature." (via LII)

American Women's Dime Novels, 1870-1920

"Images, information, and discussion about these inexpensive novels marketed to women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes lists of writers (some with biographical information) and publishers, an overview of the dime novel series, a cover galley, and links to articles and stories. Discusses libraries with dime novel collections. From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University." (via LII)

The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, Hyper-Concordance, Concordance, Concordances, concordance, concordances, Nagoya University, Japan

"This concordance "reports the total number of text lines, the total word count and the number of occurrences of the word or phrase searched" and surrounding text for numerous books by dozens of English-language authors. Primarily covers authors from the Victorian period, but also includes works by authors such as Jane Austen, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. From a professor at Nagoya University, Japan." (via LII)

Interview - Marjane Satrapi

Interview - Paul Beatty

BMJ - How to read a paper

How to interpret data reported in medical literature

Sports Literature

Crowe examines the sports literature read by kids. It also talks about the general feeling of Americans about sports and how that relates to the literature read.

Estilos decadentes, deseos

Film as literature, literature as film : an introduction to and bibliography of film's relationship to literature / Harris Ross.

"Lists 2,495 articles and books published 1908-85, classified by topic (general relationships; relationships to specific literary genres; adaptation in general; adaptations or contributions of individual literary figures throughout the world, etc.). Omits reviews, newspaper articles, and foreign-language materials. Annotations are provided only to clarify content or identify films discussed. Author index; subject index to writers, film and literary titles, and topics." (Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996)

Literature and film : an annotated bibliography, 1900-1977 / Jeffrey Egan Welsh.

"...arranged by year and indexed by names and subjects. Useful annotations. A supplement covers 1978-88." (Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996)

Literature and film : an annotated bibliography, 1978-1988 / Jeffrey Egan Welch.

A supplement to Literature and film: an annotated bibliography.

Women writers, from page to screen / Jill Rubinson Fenton ... [et al.].

"For identification of more than 2,200 English-language feature films and television movies inspired by women's writings [...]. Covers 1913-88 releases. By author, with essential details provided; indexes of film titles and literary sources." (Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996)

Writers on the American screen : a guide to film adaptations of American and foreign literary works / Larry Langman.

"More limited in focus [than Enser's filmed books and plays, it] has some titles not found in Enser's, mostly for silent films and adapted short stories and poems. Author list, with title index." (Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996)

Enser's filmed books and plays : a list of books and plays from which films have been made, 1928-2001 / compiled by Ellen Baskin.

"A thorough reworking of a standard source. Offers approaches from the film title, author's name, and original title when it differs from the screen version. Film company or distributor, conuntry of origin, year released, and director's name are indicated, as are (where applicable) title variations, made-for-television versions, and availability on video. Indexes to musicals, television films and series, and animated features; list of studios and distributors. Most of the 6,000 films are English-language, but some major foreign releases are also included."(Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996; Note that this description is based on the 1993 version)

Dictionnaire filmographique de la littberature mondiale, Filmographic dictionary of world literature. Filmographisches Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Filmografisch lexicon der wereldliteratuur / [Par] Johan Daisne.

"Identifies the works of world literature, major and minor, with the films derived from them. Each volume is in three parts: (1) a filmography arranged by writer's name and giving film title, original title if different from that of the film, country and year of production, director, and principal cast members (usually shown with character names); (2) an extensive section of stills from selected films; and (3) a title index of films and literary works, cross-referenced to authors. Details on remakes and other versions are also included, with alternate titles noted. International in coverage." (Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996)

Books and plays in films, 1896-1915 : literary, theatrical, and artistic sources of the first twenty years of motion pictures / Denis Gifford.

"Alphabetical by author, then chronological by date of film. Entry gives film title, original title if different, month and year of release, production company, length in reels, and genre of source. Index of film and source titles." (Balay, Guide to reference books, 11th ed, 1996)

Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism

This online encyclopedia offers entries on people, theories, movements, and more. Bibliographies and hyperlinked cross-references are included. Searchable and browsable.

Columbia dictionary of modern European literature / Jean-Albert Bbedbe and William B. Edgerton, general editors.

Articles on writers and countries. Coverage begins with the late 19th century.

Columbia dictionary of modern literary and cultural criticism

Oxford Reference: Literature

Twelve very handy refererence books for quick look-ups.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Oxford English Dictionary

Online version of the twenty-volume printed edition, published in 1989. Contains almost 300,000 entries, 650,000 word forms, and 2.4 million quotations which illustrate the development of the English language from before Beowulf to the present.

Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies / James L. Harner.

This is a selective guide to the best resources (both print and online) for students doing literary research. Each entry is annotated to explain what is is and why it is useful.