Still from documentary Dear Mr. Watterson (2013) by Joel Allen Schroeder. Database: Kanopy.
OU Resources -- Electronic
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- Dictionary of American Regional EnglishBetween 1965-1970, fieldworkers surveyed and interviewed people from many walks of life across America to record regional vocabulary and pronounciation. DARE online allows users to see and listen to the results.
- Kanopy Streaming VideoWatch feature and educational films online, on any device. International content, including the Criterion Collection. Effective October 1, 2018, Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not licensed for use prior to that date will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.
- Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic NovelsFocuses on adult comic books and graphic novels, from the first underground comix in the 1960s to modern graphic novels. The collection contains over 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, in addition to over 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles.
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- Between Two Worlds: Poetry and TranslationRecordings of poets reading their work in the original language and the English translation. Part of the British Library's Sounds collection.
- Blue Mountain Project Avant-Garde PeriodicalsDrawing on Princeton University’s exceptional collections and curatorial and academic expertise, the Blue Mountain Project is a digital thematic research collection of art, music and literary periodicals published between 1848, the year of the European Revolutions, and 1923.
- Bomb SiteInteractive map of London during the Blitz. Zoom to street level to see where the bombs and parachute mines landed. Under the Explore London tab, users can select an area and find first-person narratives of witnesses.
- John Steinbeck's AmericaGuide to resources about Steinbeck's life, work, and travels. Created by OU students and introduced by Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences David Wrobel.
- Modernist Journals ProjectSeveral fully-digitized cultural, literary, and political magazines published in the first two decades of the 20th century. A few examples include The English Review, The Little Review, Scribner's, and Poetry.
- The Paris Review InterviewsAn amazing resource for in-depth interviews with novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, and critics from the 1950s to the present.
- Steinbeck NowResources of all types related to the life and work of America's most read writer of the 20th century, John Steinbeck.
- Three PercentA blog about translation studies that, since 2008, has been tracking literature that has been translated into English. They provide downloadable files of titles, authors, translators, and authors' countries of origin.
- Transformative Works and Cultures journalA biannual peer-reviewed open-access academic journal that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. TWC is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works.