The Internet Classics Archive
(View Complete Item Description)This site includes a collection of public domain texts, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
Material Type: Reading
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Survey of English Literature II
(View Complete Item Description)A survey of British literature from 1789 to 1989, this course begins with the poetry of William Blake and ends with the prose of Chinua Achebe and the graphic fiction of Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The literature presented represents a complex range of forms or genres of writing, including poetry, non-fiction prose, and the novel. The course will chart the evolution of the British Empire, from the time of the French and Industrial Revolutions through the expansion of frontiers and the consequences of that expansion.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
African American Literature: Course Readings for African American Literature
(View Complete Item Description)AAS 267, African American Literature, is a survey course that explores the early days of enslavement to the present. The course includes readings, analysis, and discussion of literary texts written by African Americans, paying particular attention to the political, historical, and social context that informs these texts.
Material Type: Full Course, Syllabus
Othello Teaching Project
(View Complete Item Description)Inspired by Dr. Kim Hall’s video Why Study Shakespeare Today?, 2:46 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Jul. 11, 2012), this project seeks to link in conversation teachers and learners from diverse places and at different kinds of selective and open-admission, four-year and two-year educational institutions. Through assignments on and discussions of Shakespeare’s Othello, we can share thoughts on controversial social issues such as race, migration, politics, rule of law, sex, gender, and domestic violence. We can ask about the difficulties, drawbacks, and benefits of studying these topics in Shakespeare’s plays, begin conversations, and hear different perspectives.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Reading
Writing Commons
(View Complete Item Description)Writing Commons aspires to be a community for writers, a creative learning space for students in courses that require college-level writing, a creative, interactive space for teachers to share resources and pedagogy. The primary goal of the resource is to provide the resources that students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. The site provides free access to a college textbook that was published by a major publisher and awarded the Distinguished Book Award by Computers and Composition: an International Journal.
Material Type: Textbook
About Writing: A Guide
(View Complete Item Description)This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!
Material Type: Textbook
Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research
(View Complete Item Description)Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles and disciplines. The components of the textbook, including the embedded videos, could be swapped in and out in order to accommodate a professor’s best idea of his/her own course design.
Material Type: Textbook
Dickens in Context
(View Complete Item Description)These resources will allow you to investigate the key themes of Dickens's novels alongside original source material from the British Library. Literary manuscripts, newspapers, letters, workhouse menus and other collection items will help students open up the social, cultural, and political context in which Dickens was writing. This website includes performances by Simon Callow and discussions by Professor of English, John Mullan, filmed at the Charles Dickens Museum, London.
Material Type: Reading
Victorian Poetry and Fiction
(View Complete Item Description)This collection of Victorian Poetry and Fiction on the Great Writers Inspire site includes several prominent writers from the period. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and ebooks, and background contextual resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. This landing page allows users to explore topics such as The Victorian Gothic, Victorian Publishing History, Literature and Religion as well as majors authors.
Material Type: Reading
Great Writers Inspire: Jane Austen
(View Complete Item Description)Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Jane Austen resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.
Material Type: Lecture, Reading
Great Writers Inspire: Geoffrey Chaucer
(View Complete Item Description)Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Geoffrey Chaucer resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.
Material Type: Lecture, Reading
Great Writers Inspire: Emily Dickinson
(View Complete Item Description)Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Emily Dickinson resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.
Material Type: Reading
Great Writers Inspire: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(View Complete Item Description)Great Writers Inspire presents a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes downloadable electronic texts and ebooks, and background contextual resources.
Material Type: Primary Source, Reading
Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
(View Complete Item Description)This textbook takes a distinctly socio-historical approach to introducing Early American literature. The anthology will allow students to engage with literature in exciting and dynamic ways. The table of contents has been drafted, and we are currently looking for introduction authors and help securing public domain texts.
Material Type: Reading
Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
(View Complete Item Description)This online textbook contains short articles on each major deity, hero, monster, etc., in Greek mythology. The text is supplemented with color photographs and maps to enhance the learning experience.
Material Type: Textbook
Technical Writing
(View Complete Item Description)This open textbook offers students of technical writing an introduction to the processes and products involved in professional, workplace, and technical writing. The text is broken up into sections reflecting key components of researching, developing, and producing a technical report. Readers will also learn about other professional communication, designing documents, and creating and integrating graphics. Written especially for an academic setting, this book provides readers with guidance on information literacy and documenting sources. This book was collected, adapted, and edited from multiple openly licensed sources.
Material Type: Textbook
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined
(View Complete Item Description)How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.
Material Type: Textbook
On Liberty
(View Complete Item Description)Introductory -- Of the liberty of thought and discussion -- Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being -- Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual -- Applications.
Material Type: Reading
The Prince
(View Complete Item Description)The Prince -- Description of the methods adopted by the Duke Valentino when murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini -- The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca.
Material Type: Reading