OpenSource Shakespeare - An Experiment in Literary Technology

OpenSource Shakespeare - An Experiment in Literary Technology is a collection of open source texts providing its users with a clean design and easy access to the 1864 Globe Edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Plays are organized by genre, by number of lines and the site also offers a character list and a character search feature. The Sonnets and Poems section facilitates sonnet-by-sonnet or side-by-side comparison viewing.

All texts have a print/save version, which looks even better than the online counterpart.

The website of the Week!

I know, I know! Holidays are for having fun, going out etc. but in the mean time, it's alright to get a bit nerdy and check out the most interesting websites ever.

This week I've read a couple of nice things on the site below:
The Shakespeare Resource Center. You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare.

Online Summer School :)

"An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware." (OpenCourseWare website)

In other words: free education for all. Let's not discuss get into ethical issues here; just run a search and tell me what you think!

THE COMPLETE SITE ON MAHATMA GANDHI

A Place to learn about Gandhi, his life, work & philosophy. This comprehensive site is regularly updated & maintained by non-profit Gandhian Organizations in India & has a wealth of information & material for researchers, students, activists & anyone interested in Gandhi. Click HERE to visit the site!

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a prominent political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

The Master List of Free Online College Courses

Click HERE  to visit a collection of free online college classes available to the general public. 

Contents: 

   1. General Collections

   2. Math and Science

   3. History

   4. Arts and Humanities

   5. Business and Economics

The BBC Knowledge Magazine

I strongly recommend the new BBC Knowledge Magazine - a magazine about science, nature and history, invention, innovation and more. Click HERE to read it for FREE!

The Arts and Humanities pages of Intute

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.

Quick pick: E-Journals --- English.

LitSum: Free Literature Summaries and Study Guides

Litsum is a totally new alternative for free literature summaries! If you are looking for free book summaries or book notes, Litsum has more free literature summaries than any other site. Their literature study guides and enotes include full chapter summaries and analysis, topics for discussion, quotes, style, themes and character analysis. Litsum is probably the largest free literature summary website online! It is a great tool, but you should also consider reading the books. Otherwise, most study guides available on Litsum are useless!

Free E-book Download: Fiction

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a contemporary fantasy novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. (click on the title of the book or on the title of this post to download it for FREE!)

This novel reverses many of the conventions of the cyberpunk genre. With the exception of a brief story written by the main character, it takes place wholly in a "real" world (albeit a strange one) instead of involving a complex digital simulation. The characters that would be most associated with the "punks" are older guys who are well aware of their age and show a strong emotional side instead of being younger, detached, and augmented. (It stands to note that the "standard" mohawk does appear on at least one character's head.) Some of the ones closest to the "hacking scheme" are even part of the iconic big business that would normally be a threat in a similar setting. Rather than hacking tons of code in elaborate, secretive plans, the characters use dumpster diving to piece together technology that is free to all. They are open about what they are doing, actively seeking assistance from whatever source. The rebellious youth of the novel often scorn computer technology or work on the project without knowing what they are doing. Anarchists shun helping Alan and Kurt, while big business delights in it.

A Great Tool for Students - Bartleby.com

Bartleby.com - one of the best internet publishers of literature offers free access to open domain texts. I strongly recommend: Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia World of Quotations, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style and World Factbook.

EUR-Lex: FREE Access to EU Law

EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. Here you can consult the Official Journal of the European Union as well as the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals. You can also use the extensive search facilities available on EUR-Lex.
The information is available in ALL the official languages of the EU.

Click on the following link to go to the EUR-Lex website: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm

Recommended:

1. Recognition of diplomas and qualifications in the European Union
2. Multilingualism in the EU
3. Employment

eScholarship Editions

The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Over 500 titles are available to the public.

Recommended FREE books:

1. Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition - by Christopher Beach

2. Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen - by Irvin Ehrenpreis

3. America at Century's End - edited by Alan Wolfe

4. Asceticism and Society in Crisis. John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints - by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

5. Authors of Their Own Lives. Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists - Edited by Bennett M. Berger

L’acte de traduction

by Mathieu Dosse
"L’un des plus importants penseurs contemporains de la traduction nous a laissé une œuvre de taille réduite. Si l’on omet nombre d’articles, nous n’avions jusqu’à présent accès qu’à trois livres d’Antoine Berman, dont un posthume. Une œuvre restreinte, certes, mais essentielle : chacun des ces livres, à sa manière, explore sous un prisme différent la pensée de la traduction. L’Auberge du lointain, court et didactique, complète à merveille L’Épreuve de l’étranger, dont la portée ne cesse de se confirmer au fil des années ; quant à l’ouvrage posthume, paru en 1995, Pour une critique des traduction : John Donne, la plupart des traductologues s’accordent à dire que Berman y a esquissé les contours d’une analyse moderne des traductions (ne mettant pas systématiquement en avant la négativité de la traduction), et posé dans le même mouvement les jalons d’une pensée contemporaine de la traduction où pratique, critique et réflexion se complètent."
(Click on the following link to read the entire article: http://www.fabula.org/revue/document4888.php)
FREE preview of Berman's L’Auberge du lointain available on Google Books - in English (click on the title!):

• The Experience of the Foreign

Forum for Modern Language Studies: Free Issue

Oxford Journals Online
Forum for Modern Language Studies. Special Issue:
The Fantastic: An Enduring Literary Mode

(click on the title to go to journal website).

Free Journal

Free academic journal available online:
STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI PHILOLOGIA, Translation Training for the Global Market.
(click on the title to download file)
Contents:
1. FOREWORD, by ANCA GREERE.
2. TRANSCULTURAL RELATING – AN EXAMPLE OF PROJECT-ORIENTED TRANSLATOR EDUCATION, by DON KIRALY.
3. TRANSLATING SPECIALISED TEXTS: AN OVERVIEW OF KEY FACTORS INVOLVED IN TRANSLATOR TRAINING FOR SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, by BEVERLY ADAB.
4. A FEW CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE TEACHING OF L1-INTO-L2 TRANSLATIONS, by BOGDAN ALDEA.
5. UNE DIDACTIQUE DE LA CRÉATIVITÉ EN TRADUCTION COMME «PROBLEM SOLVING ACTIVITY», by BERND STEFANINK, IOANA BĂLĂCESCU.
6. DISCOURSE AWARENESS. RAISING THE TRANSLATORS’ AWARENESS OF DISCOURSE-RELEVANT ISSUES, by SILVIA IRIMIEA.
7. PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ELEMENTS OF TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN HUNGARY - A CASE STUDY, by BORBÁLA RICHTER.
8. QUALITY ISSUES IN ROMANIAN TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER TRAINING: INVESTIGATING THE VALIDITY OF THE STANDARDS PROPOSED BY THE ROMANIAN AGENCY FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION [ARACIS], by ANCA GREERE.
9. TRAINING FOR THE TRANSLATION PROFESSION: WHAT DO ROMANIAN UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES HAVE TO OFFER?, by ANCA GREERE, CRISTINA TĂTARU.
10. TRANSLATING FOR A PURPOSE: THE SKOPOS THEORY APPLIED TO THE TRANSLATION FOR MINORITY LANGUAGES, by CARMEN VALERO GARCÉS.
11. STATUS QUO AND FUTURE TRENDS OF THE ROMANIAN TRANSLATION MARKET, by CRISTIANA COBLIŞ.
12. LE MARCHE DE LA TRADUCTION EN ROUMANIE: CONFIGURATION ACTUELLE, ENJEUX ET PERSPECTIVES EUROPEENNES, by MIHAELA TOADER.
13. SKILLS NEEDED BY FREELANCE TRANSLATORS IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THEIR REPUTATION ON THE TRANSLATION MARKET, by THOMAS TOLNAI.
14. A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF PROBLEMS AND DIFFICULTIES WITH THE TRANSLATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, by RODICA SUPERCEANU, LUCIA BEICĂ, CLAUDIA ICOBESCU.
15. TRADUCTEURS ET INTERPRETES A LA RECHERCHE DU MOT ... PERDU, by RENATA GEORGESCU.
16. TRANSLATION, GLOBALISATION AND THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE, by ADRIANA-CECILIA NEAGU.
17. ASPECTS SÉMANTIQUES ET PRAGMATIQUES DE LA TRADUCTION JURIDIQUE COMMERCIALE, by RALUCA FENEŞAN.
18. LOS NEOLOGISMOS: ENTRE INNOVACIÓN Y TRADUCCIÓN. ESTUDIO DE CASO: LOS NEOLOGISMOS JURÍDICOS, by OLIVIA PETRESCU.
19. DIFICULTADES DE LA TRADUCCIÓN CIENTÍFICA, by IULIA BOBĂILĂ.
20. LES ANGLICISMES DANS LA PRESSE FRANÇAISE ET LEUR TRADUCTION EN ROUMAIN, by ADINA CORNEA, NORA MĂRCEAN.
21. VALORI E FUNZIONI DEL PASSATO PROSSIMO E DEL PASSATO REMOTO (ITALIANO E ROMENO A CONFRONTO), by ANAMARIA COLCERIU.
22. METHODES ET ALGORITHMES DANS LES PROCESSUS DE CATEGORISATION ET D’EXTRACTION DES INFORMATIONS, by MANUELA MIHĂESCU, SANDA CHERATA.
23. ‘CONSTRUCTION’ ET ‘DECONSTRUCTION’ DE L’EQUIVOQUE DANS L’AUDIOVISUEL, by CRISTINA VARGA.