ramage's Bookmarks About literature

BBC NEWS | Technology | British Library books go digital

More than 100,000 books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after 1st editions.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · digital · library · literature

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7018210.stm - cached - mail it - history

Africa's 100 Best Books Of The 20th Century - fiction and poetry

A handy list, with some well-known names, as you'd expect (Achebe, Coetzee, Mahfouz, etc) - but plenty of others I hadn't come accross. There's a non-fiction list, too.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 africa · books · literature

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com/BOOKS/africabest-fiction.html - cached - mail it - history

Dispatches from Zembla

litblog with a quote from "Pale Fire" in the header - what's not to like?

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blog · books · film · literature · philosophy

http://marcelproust.blogspot.com/ - cached - mail it - history

C A L Q U E

prose and poetry from any period and by any author writing within a tradition not in English. This work can take the form of stories, poems, manifestos, comics, lectures, etc., but it must be a translation

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 literature · magazine · translation

http://calquezine.blogspot.com/ - cached - mail it - history

J.M Barrie and Peter Pan — Winter 2005 Issue — Endicott Studio

long illustrated essay on J. M. Barrie and his famous creation

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 articles · authors · books · childrens_books · essays · jmbarrie · literature · peterpan · toread

http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrPeterPan1.html - cached - mail it - history

jessamyn.com : Donald Barthelme's barthelmismo

everything Donald Barthelme: stories, essays, bibliography, biography, criticism and comment

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 authors · books · donaldbarthelme · literature · resources · writing

http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/ - cached - mail it - history

Bombsite: Home Page

The quarterly arts & culture magazine BOMB is in the process of revamping itself for the web: a complete archive of the past 100 issues, including over 800 interviews, is in the works

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 architecture · art · books · culture · film · interviews · literature · magazine · music · theatre · theory

http://www.bombsitebeta.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Passerelles littéraires

collection of French literary links

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 french · literature · links

http://passerelleslitteraires.blogspot.com/ - cached - mail it - history

hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo

hitotoki.org is a new literary site collecting stories of personal, singular experiences ...inseparably tied to a specific place in this sprawling city of Tokyo.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blog · community · culture · design · geography · japan · literature · mapping · narrative · tokyo · travel · writing

http://hitotoki.org/tokyo/ - cached - mail it - history

The World’s Best Untranslated Novels -- New York Magazine

some novels, as-yet-to-be translated-into-English...

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · literature · translation

http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/33136/ - cached - mail it - history

deblog: The Literary Twitosphere

Litter? Twitterature? list of literary sites using twitter in various ways

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · literature · twitter

http://www.the-deblog.com/2007/06/the_literary_tw_1.html - cached - mail it - history

Mesostomatic generator

mesostic generator

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 johncage · generator · literature · language · poetry

http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/ - cached - mail it - history

Literary Magazines: The Big List

a big list of literary magazines

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 links · literature · magazines · poetry · writing

http://everylitmag.tripod.com/Biglist.html - cached - mail it - history

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Wolff. Reading Potential: The Oulipo and the Meaning of Algorithms.

"The procedures for making sense of texts provide for their own interpretation: they are not only instruments for discovering meaning but also reflections on making meaning." Article by Mark Wolff from new Digital Humanities Quarterly

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 algorithms · links · literature · oulipo · writing

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/1/000005.html - cached - mail it - history

Articulo Las mejores 100 novelas de la lengua española de los últimos 25 años

list of the best 100 Spanish-language novels of the last 25 years - how many have been translated into English?

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 fiction · literature · spanish

http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?idArt=101793 - cached - mail it - history

IBIT: Digitalisierte Kinderbücher aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

19th century (mainly?) German children's books

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 archive · books · childrens · digital · german · images · literature · via:zettel

http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/retrodig/index.html - cached - mail it - history

The Adamantine : bande dessinée et littérature

feuille permanente consacrée aux littératures dessinées. Si vous vous intéressez à la bande dessinée, à sa théorie, à la recension exhaustive de la littérature secondaire, au strip américain, au manga, ... vous êtes à la à la bonne adresse.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 bd · french · literature · popular_culture · sciencefiction&fantasy

http://www.sdv.fr/pages/adamantine/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Raymond QUENEAU - Ina - Archives pour tous

Ten-minute video about Raymond Queneau, including "Quelques images de la cave "Le Tabou". BT de QUENEAU dans une cave avec J-P SARTRE." note: "cave"="night-club", though you can imagine it means "cave" if you want...

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 french · julietgreco · literature · paris · raymondqueneau · tabou · video

http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=personnalites&code=C0524204644&num_notice=1&total_notices=2 - cached - mail it - history

Littérature de jeunesse sous l'Ancien régime

L'iconographie dans les ouvrages pour l'enfance et la jeunesse, de Gutenberg à Guizot. Vast database of images from French children's books.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · education · french · images · literature · for:peacay

http://www.inrp.fr/she/lej/ - cached - mail it - history

Raymond Roussel, de l'angoisse à l'extase

Good short article about Raymond Roussel

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · literature · oulipo · via:johnlukebarker

http://www.manuscrit.com/Edito/invites/Pages/OctJeux_Roussel.asp - cached - mail it - history

MISCELLANÉES: Sommaire-index de la bibliothèque

Anthology of moderately obscure french texts, with some imagery - cheese labels, ex-libris labels

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 19thcentury · ephemera · france · french · literature

http://www.miscellanees.com/sommaire.htm - cached - mail it - history

[LELITTERAIRE.COM] :: critique de l'actualité éditoriale

online French literary magazine, packed with stuff

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · literature · magazine

http://www.lelitteraire.com/index.php3 - cached - mail it - history

Editions Zulma

classy French publishing house: their books are beautifully designed, and so is their site

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · literature · publishers-france

http://www.zulma.fr/index.html - cached - mail it - history

ANNU:ART culture actualité - annuaire webzine

describing itself as a "webzine francophone culturel & d'actualité - annuaire des artistes et cultures - sans publicité, sans Sarkozy" this is another, huger, repository of French literary and cultural links

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 art · books · culture · french · links · literature · reference · resources

http://fabienma.club.fr/annu-art/index.htm - cached - mail it - history

http://www.bouquins.net

huge repository of links relating to books and literature, mainly French, but some anglophone ones too

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · links · literature · reference · resources

http://www.bouquins.net/ - cached - mail it - history

RienQueDesMots : Lectures critiques et actualité littéraire

nicely done, this: focusing mainly on books, but with sidelines on cinema, theatre, music and other websites in a regularly updated selection of reviews

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · cinema · film · french · literature · music · reviews · video · web

http://www.rienquedesmots.com/V1/index.php - cached - mail it - history

L'Alamblog

French literary blog, affiliated to lekti-ecriture portal (q.v.)

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blogs · french · literature

http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/blogs/alamblog/index.php - cached - mail it - history

11.jpg (JPEG Image, 633x800 pixels) (Georges Perec)

the Perec poster from the CULTURESFRANCE Oulipo exhibition

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 french · literature · oulipo · perec · georgesperec

http://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/adpf/expositions/galerie/photos/Oulipo/800/11.jpg - cached - mail it - history

07.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x626 pixels) (Group Photo)

the group photo poster from the CULTURESFRANCE Oulipo exhibition

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 french · literature · oulipo

http://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/adpf/expositions/galerie/photos/Oulipo/800/07.jpg - cached - mail it - history

CULTURESFRANCE: Oulipo exhibition

Exhibition about the Oulipo consisting of 17 very nicely-designed posters

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 french · literature · oulipo

http://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/adpf/expositions/galerie/expositions.php?show_heading=detail&dir=Oulipo&type=thema&ph... - cached - mail it - history

le blog|journal de François Bon

French literary blog, with numerous subsections

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blog · french · literature

http://www.tierslivre.net/spip/ - cached - mail it - history

COLLAGES

French literary blog

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blog · blogs · french · literature · books · via:ddelaborde

http://www.elodie-pinel.fr/ - cached - mail it - history

FORMULES : LA revue des littératuresàcontraintes

FORMULES, loin de tout formalisme vide, fait le pari d'un formalisme plein. Les « littératures à contraintes » représentent pour nous l'une des voies majeures de la modernité d'aujourd'hui. Like the Oulipo, then.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 constraints · french · literature · magazine · oulipo · writing

http://www.formules.net/ - cached - mail it - history

Alfred Jarry, sa vie, son oeuvre. Actualité sur le thème d'Alfred Jarry

2007 is the centenary of Alfred Jarry's death - this site is full of links, images, pdf versions of Jarry's works, plus a calendar of commemorative events and exhibitions

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 alfredjarry · french · literature · ubu · pataphysics

http://www.alfredjarry2007.fr/index.php - cached - mail it - history

Table of Contents and Excerpt, Penelope Rosemont, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

"Although the first women of surrealism have been almost entirely overlooked in the historical and critical literature, clearly they were a bold, imaginative, and remarkable lot...", the introduction begins

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 art · arthistory · books · feminism · literature · surrealism · toread · women

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exrossur.html - cached - mail it - history

ebr10 : A Roundup of Constrained Writing on the Web

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 article · from · the · Electronic · Book · Review · about · constrained · writing · constraint · literature · oulipo

http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10sus.htm - cached - mail it - history

RMDS Collections | The Renaissance in Print | 16th Century French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection

approximately 600 books dating from the sixteenth century include literary works and titles pertaining to religion, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, travel and architecture. Includes French trans. of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · 16thcentury · literature · collections · digitalcollections · renaissance

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/collections/gordon/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Barthelemy Aneau - Alector ou le coq - Livre - Lekti-ecriture.com

Extraordinaire témoignage de l’imaginaire de la Renaissance, Alector nous embarque sur le dos de Durat, hippopotame ailé, pour un voyage fantastique en compagnie de Franc-Gal, héros fondateur de la Gaule. Another book I like the sound of.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · 16thcentury · literature · barthelemyaneau

http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/editeurs/Alector-ou-le-coq.html - cached - mail it - history

lekti-ecriture.com

French literary site bringing together 40 independent French publishers, a literary review, associated blogs, and an online bookstore

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · bookselling · french · literature · publishing

http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Béroalde de Verville - Le moyen de parvenir - Livre - Lekti-ecriture.com

Sounds like something I'd want to read: 17th century French book by an author with a "passion des mots sous toutes leurs formes (patois, argot, mots de métier...)", an influence on Sterne's Tristram Shandy, no less

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · language · literature · 17thcentury · beroaldedeverville · words

http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/editeurs/Le-moyen-de-parvenir.html - cached - mail it - history

Oulipo - Lekti-ecriture.com

books from the Oulipo published by Éditions Le Castor Astral. at Lekti-ecriture.com, which seems to be a kind of French equivalent to Small Press Distribution

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · literature · oulipo · smallpress · publishing

http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/editeurs/-Oulipo-.html - cached - mail it - history

Conversational Reading: Life A User's Manual

Scott Esposito on La Vie mode d'emploi

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 literature · perec · writing

http://www.conversationalreading.com/2007/02/life_a_users_ma.html - cached - mail it - history

Morgane's World - Hic Bibitur - Le Quart-Livre

Complete text of The Fourth Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais (in the original French)

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · french · literature · francoisrabelais

http://www.morgane.org/hicbibitur/quart.htm - cached - mail it - history

Francopolis

site dedicated to poetry from French-speaking countries, with other language- and literature-related links

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 french · language · literature

http://www.francopolis.net/index.htm - cached - mail it - history

CRITICAL MASS

the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blog · blogs · book · books · criticism · literature · literary · publishing · reviews · writing

http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Lire : le magazine littéraire. L'actualité de la littérature francaise et de la littérature étrangère.

French literary magazine

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · france · french · literature · magazine

http://www.lire.fr/default.asp - cached - mail it - history

Lafontaine.net, le site consacré à La Fontaine et à Willy Aractingi

French site dedicated to La Fontaine's fables by illustrator Willy Aractingi. Besides the fables themselves, there are all the illustrations by Grandville, Oudry, Doré, and others

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 art · books · français · french · illustration · lafontaine · fables · grandville · oudry · doré · literature

http://www.lafontaine.net/nouveau-site/index.php - cached - mail it - history

The Medieval Bestiary

This web site deals with any and all aspects of the general topic "animals in the Middle Ages", though there is an emphasis on the manuscript tradition, particularly of the bestiaries, and mostly in western Europe.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 animals · bestiaries · history · images · literature · medieval · via:loretomartin

http://www.bestiary.ca/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Underrated Writers 2006

Syntax of Things corrals nominations for interesting underrated writers. There was a 2005 Underrated Writers Project, too.

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 books · literature · underrated · writers · writing

http://syntaxofthings.typepad.com/underrated_writers_2006/ - cached - mail it - history

Raminagrobis

blog of a classicist

by ramage 2007-10-01 04:16 blog · classics · french · greek · latin · literature

http://whenhernameyouwriteyoublot.blogspot.com/ - cached - mail it - history