• Teaching packages: see "The Basis of English Metre" by C.J. Kay and Jean Anderson
  
  
• the STARN project (Scots Teaching And Research Network") : in the list of links on the STELLA homepage, click on "Other Projects" then STARN then "Criticism and Commentary"
  • select "The Language of Traveller Storytellers" by Sheila Douglas, and study its account of the interaction between language and travelling experiences
• " English & Scots Language & Literature Links" : see its sections on
  • Organisations
  • Gateways -- towards websites of King's College London, Oxford, ..., and towards HATII:

    Select "HATII" (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at Glasgow); then in the second column of its homepage (section "Research") click on "Research & Projects" then "Theatre of Memory"
    The "theatre of memory" was an imaginary Renaissance building with a design serving as a memory aid because of its mnemonic structure: "a unified referential system" reflecting the "marriage of symbol with three dimensional space"; it can be interpreted as a form of "Renaissance conceptual art".
    The website presents it in three different forms: images, VR reconstruction, interpretative comment.
    -- Study their interaction in the light of our topic "information spaces".

  • Text Archives & Corpora: the English Server at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre , the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative: see sections on SGML coding of texts : on the homepage of the Ecole Doctorale, click on "Travaux de recherche").

This annotated list of resources is subdivided into period sections, then in thematic sections (among which a section on "Hypertext" that we shall use later).

• In the period list, select "Renaissance"

  then select "The Forest of Rhetoric (Gideon Burton)- A guide to the terms of classical and Renaissance rhetoric." Admirably thorough, with extensive cross-references and examples" http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

  • Study the subdivisions on the left (branches of oratory, canons of rhetoric)
  • In the alphabetical list of figures to the right, select "ecphrasis", and study its definition in the light of our research on texts and images
• in the period list, select "18th century"

  then select "Literature"
  in the alphabetical list of authors, select "Beckford";
  this will lead you to the Beckford site http://beckford.c18.net

  • study the sections on Beckford's architectural imagination
  • in the section "Beckford Links", follow the links to the Michigan website and its resources on Beckford's literature of travel; compare the search facilities on the Michigan website with those you know