All 8 entries tagged Literature

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Andrew Noble : 25 Aug 2009 09:16 |  Tags: Catalogue Literature Research |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Eighteenth Century Collections Online – Part 2 now available

Writing about web page http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/news_and_events/newsletter/july_newsletter.aspx?6

Andrew Noble : 28 Jul 2009 11:49 |  Tags: Databases Ecco English Literature |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

JSTOR Updates

Writing about web page http://www.jstor.org/

Material that was originally released into the JSTOR archive in one collection titled Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection has now separated into the following two collections:

Manchester Selected Pamphlets (19th Century British Pamphlets)

AND

Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (19th Century British Pamphlets)

Andrew Noble : 14 Jul 2009 11:34 |  Tags: Databases Jstor Literature |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

JSTOR Update

Writing about web page http://www.jstor.org/start-session?entityID=https://idp.warwick.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth

The following Arts resources have recently been added to JSTOR.

• Bristol Selected Pamphlets
• Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection

And the following existing JSTOR titles will now be updated to current issues as soon as they are received by JSTOR:

Jewish History
Journal of American Studies
Journal of Religion and Health
Revista de Historia de América Studies
Irish Quarterly Review
U.S. Catholic Historian

Andrew Noble : 01 Jun 2009 13:26 |  Tags: Databases Jstor Literature |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Warwick Prize for Writing

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/prizeforwritingwinner

Naomi Klein has been announced as the winner of the first Warwick Prize for Writing. Canadian journalist Klein's winning book The Shock Doctrine was chosen from a diverse shortlist of six international titles.

The six shortlisted books all offered a different interpretation of this year's theme of complexity and ranged from music criticism and scientific theory to Spanish fiction.

Read more about the six shortlisted writers

Chair judge China Miéville, award-winning author of fantasy fiction, announced the winner at a ceremony held in the Arts Centre, which was attended by the Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor.

Andrew Noble : 03 Mar 2009 12:40 |  Tags: Books Literature Prize Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Resource Focus : The Marandet Collection

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/marandet/

The University of Warwick's Marandet collection of 18th- and 19th-century French plays is a unique resource and one of the most significant collections of its kind in the country. There are over 2000 plays from the period 1700-1830 and a similar number from the period 1830-1900. Most of the plays were acquired originally by a 19th-century French collector, Amédée Marandet, who was himself an actor and playwright. Many of the works and their authors have now been forgotten but the collection is extremely rich in popular drama of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Marandet Matters

Marandet Matters is an online journal publishing original research by undergraduate students working on plays in the Marandet collection. The first issue can be consulted here.

If you have any queries or would like to find out more, please contact Katherine Astbury in the French Department, or Peter Larkin and Stuart Hunt in the Library.

Andrew Noble : 11 Feb 2009 13:12 |  Tags: Archive Databases French Literature |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Warwick Prize for Writing – Shortlist

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/prizeforwriting/thisyear/shortlist/

The shortlist for the 2009 Warwick Prize for Writing has today been announced and sees six diverse genres competing for the £50,000 prize.

This year’s theme of 'complexity' has been interpreted differently by the six shortlisted writers, all experts in their diverse fields. Themes include global political corruption, female psychology, 20th century music, scientific theories on religion and a Spanish literary fiction puzzle.

The six shortlisted authors are:

• Lisa Appignanesi, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800
• Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?
• Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred
• Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
• Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century
• Enrique Vila-Matas (translator: Jonathan Dunne), Montano's Malady

For further details on the shortlisted authors, visit the Prize for Writing site here

Andrew Noble : 05 Feb 2009 11:29 |  Tags: Literature Prize Warwick Writing |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Wordsworths: Collected Letters – Free Trial

A free trial of the Wordsworths: Collected Letters resource is now available on the Library database trials page. This resource enables you access to the fulltext of this collection. This trial is available until September 2008.

If you have any comments on this trial please contact a member of the Arts team.

Jessica Humphreys : 05 Aug 2008 15:07 |  Tags: Databases Literature Trials |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem