http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2010 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:25:44 PDT Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:25:44 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90889 "This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits." http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85366 Poets.org provides a wealth of content on contemporary American poetry and receives an average of 400,000 unique users each month. It also provides online educational resources such as free poetry lesson plans for teachers. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84723 This is a great site that allows you to listen to various plays. It includes several plays by American women writers, dramatizations and resource materials. Plays included: "A Jury of Her Peers", by Susan Glaspell, "Sweat", by Zora Hurston, "The Yellow Wall Paper", by Charlette Gillman, etc. includes several plays by American women writers, dramatizations and resource materials http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86333 "Critical approaches to literature reveal how or why a particular work is constructed and what its social and cultural implications are. Understanding critical perspectives will help you to see and appreciate a literary work as a multilayered construct of meaning. Reading literary criticism will inspire you to reread, rethink, and respond. Soon you will be a full participant in an endless and enriching conversation about literature." This is a well constructed site from Bedford/St. Martin's VirtualLit website. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90008 Featuring classic authors, this online library offers "real" books to people over the Internet. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90754 This site offers "a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century." The collection is categorized by First-Person Narratives of the American South, a Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 and The Church in the Southern Black Community. The collection can be searched by subject, author or title. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83048 The Max Hunter Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. The site provides audio files for the songs, with text transcription, and some musical transcriptions. The site is searchable. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89673 LiTgloss is a collection of literary texts written in languages other than English, and carefully annotated to facilitate reading by English-speaking students. Supplementary information and some sound files are available as well. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83256 This is an annotated topical index to sciencefiction stories and novels that use good astronomy and is part of the education web pages of the nonprofit Astronomical Society of the Pacific.The listing currently has 195 entries organizedinto 40 categories, ranging from "anti-matter" to "Venus." It includes stories and novels by a number of scientists (some writing under a pseudonym) and by other writers who pay attention to the accuracy of their science. It is not designed as a complete index, but highlights stories that teachers have found particularly useful for making scientific ideas come alive for non-science students.The stories and novels listed deal with suchtopics as the dangers of asteroid impacts and exploding stars, the future exploration of Mars, the fate of travelers who venture close to a black hole, the search for intelligent life in the universe (and what forms it might take), and what it would be like to live among the rings and moons of the outer solar system. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77371 This site "is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 6000 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world." It covers mythological and other materials from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Articles vary in length from a few lines to a page or more.