English 5090, Research Methods Thurs. 30 Jan. & Mon. 3 Feb., 3:10 to 4:00 pm, Hoyt 207 Computer Classroom

Eric W. Nye Office Hours: MWF 9:00-10am, or by appt., Hoyt Hall 310, 766-3244

Spring 2003

Twenty questions for the web:

1. Which two of Dickens' novels originally appeared without illustrations?

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2. Does the National Endowment for the Humanities provide grants to write novels?

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3. Can you find a Polish translation online of Poe's "The Raven"? What is its title?

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4. What object today stands in the dooryard of Walt Whitman's birthplace?

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5. Where can you buy a second-hand copy of Wayne Booth's Critical Understanding?

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6. What is the current observed relative humidity in Laramie?

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7. Who plays the title role in the recent movie about the life of Oscar Wilde?

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8. Can you find an online text of Butcher's translation of Aristotle's Poetics?

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9. Which saint is the patron of beekeepers, engaged couples, travellers, and young people, was beheaded in 269 AD, and since 1835 has permitted his relics to be displayed at the Carmelite church in Dublin?

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10. Who wrote the epigraph to Yeats' book The Rose (1893)?

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11. What line from Shakespeare appears on C. S. Lewis's gravestone?

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12. Where can you find the lyrics for Don MacLean's popular song, "American Pie"?

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13. Can you find a complete searchable concordance to the entire text of Ibsen's A Doll House?

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14. Can you find a text complete with an artist's rendition of the scene of Jorge Luis Borges's short story, "The Library of Babel"?

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15. Where is there a hyperpresentation: "Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales" from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ?

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16. Find a structured database holding digitized images of Walt Whitman's works in their original documentary forms, manuscripts, early printed texts -- including proofs and first editions, in full color when possible.

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17. Where would you find the syllabus for English 553.601 at the University of Pennsylvania: Jane Austen and the Political Novel, and who is the instructor?

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18. What is he first line of Book III of Spenser's Faerie Qveene (1596)?

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19. Whose MS notes are in the British Library copy of Omniana, (1812) by Coleridge and Southey.

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20. Find an online edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894) that gives you the source and meaning of the Latin expression, cui bono?

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