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Lives In
The Arts |
Capsule bios of personalities
in the arts. |
Lives In The Arts |
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Electricka's Resource Shelf |
An electronic bibliography of arts-related
institutions; people; traditional and computerized reference works such as
dictionaries and encyclopedias; bibliographies of books, readers guides,
sound and video recordings, films, and much more. The Shelf also lists
arts-related institutions, people, facilities such as museums, performance
halls, theaters, and performances. Many of these resources are
reader's aids that can be used on line. |
Electricka's Resource Shelf |
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Works In
The History Of Western Art |
A searchable and sortable table containing
the names of scores of
artists, their works, and movements in the Western fine arts tradition. |
Capsule History Of Western Art |
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Movements In Western Art |
A searchable and sortable
table that identifies the most significant and prominent arts
movements that have arisen in the Western art tradition and the
periods in which each movement occurred. It briefly describes the
salient characteristics of each movement |
Capsule History Of Western Art |
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Western Artists |
A searchable and sortable
table that identifies works by important or prominent artists in the
Western art tradition and identifies the main art movement each work
represents or expresses. |
Capsule History Of Western Art |
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Latin Terms |
A searchable and sortable table containing hundreds
of definitions of Latin words, phrases, quotations, and abbreviations.
In addition to definitions, the table offers you information about the
origins of the terms it contains, their sources, alternate
translations and meanings, explanations, comments, and other kinds of
useful and informative items.
- For more information about Latin resources at Electricka's web
site, visit The Muse of Language Arts page called About Latinisms:
About Latinisms
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About
Latinisms |
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Animal Group Names And Descriptors |
This reader's aid is a
searchable and sortable table that may surprise or amuse you. For
example, did you know that one of the names for a group of pigeons is
a dropping? One may speak of a dropping of pigeons.
The table contains a list of the popular and common names for many
different kinds of animals (e.g., ape, baboon, ass, and bat). One or
more group names for each animal is supplied in most cases. For
example, shrewdness and troop are terms used to refer to
a group of apes—a shrewdness of apes; battery is a term
used to refer to a group of barracudas—a battery of barracudas. The table also contains a
descriptive term (genre or class name) for most of the animals. For
example, a sparrow is a member of the passerine family. |
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Animal Sex And Progeny Names |
Many animals have different
names for the male, female, and young. For example, a male alligator
is a bull; a female alligator is a cow; and a baby
alligator is a hatchling. This reader's aid is a searchable and
sortable table of such names. |
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Sailors &
Sailing |
Sailing, sailing over the
bounding main... Bound with the muses as they translate nautical terms
into English; keep time with ship's bells; bone up on all sorts of
sailing miscellany, from superstition to fact, from the time of the
trireme to today's nuclear aircraft carrier. If you're reading or
writing about sailing and the sailor's life, you'll be glad you did. |
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Tell Time Like A
Sailor |
Shed your landlubber status. After you read this page you'll be able to tell time like a
sailor—The Muses guarantee it. |
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Alphabets, Letters, And Words |
The Muse Of Language Arts presents a few of the alphabets that English-speaking
readers and writers encounter when they communicate with artists and their
productions in conversational intercourse, reading,
listening, and writing. The goal is to engender an alphabetic proficiency—an
alphabetic IQ, if you will—that will
promote alphabetic understanding, so that readers, writers, listeners,
artists, and art lovers generally can have easy access to information about
alphabets, the most basic elements of language. |
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Proofreaders' Marks |
Proofreaders' Marks is a multi-page list containing most of the
standard proofreader marks you are likely encounter when writing. These marks are especially useful to a writer
whose work has been edited and who needs assistance with interpreting
an editor's markups. Entries contain a description of a correction or change an editor might
request and the graphic symbols that represent the change. Examples
are included.
Proofreaders' Marks is contained in a file
organized in PDF format.
Proofreaders' Marks is aimed primarily at writers but is also helpful to
avid readers. |
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Glossary Of Literary Terms |
An
automated literary glossary containing a large number of definitions of a
variety of different kinds of literary terms. These definitions are arranged
in the form of an automated table. A visitor can conveniently search table entries for occurrences of a text string that
represents and expresses his literary interests. Look for an explanation of
the Glossary and directions for how to use it at The Muse Of Literature's
page called
Literary Terminology - Glossary Of Literary Terms:
click here. |
Literary Terminology— Glossary Of Literary
Terms |
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Fantastic Creatures Of The World |
The Muse Of Mythology is pleased to present this comprehensive exploration
of a dazzling array of all types of imagined beings, here called
fantastic creatures! the arts are among the richest sources of fantastic creatures. Sources
of fantastic creatures include myth, legend, literature, movies, fine arts,
and music. |
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The Gallery Of Fantastic Creatures |
See images of fantastic creatures. Stroll through the gallery's halls and
marvel at the pictures of creatures hanging from the walls. See images of
some of the most fantastic creatures man has imagined. |
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Mythological Deities |
A pantheon of deities that have
appeared in mythologies throughout the ages. Deities are
presented in the form of an automated table, with each row dedicated to a particular
deity. The emphasis is
definitely on deities associated with the arts, which are among the richest
of such sources. Sources in the arts include: Myth, Legend, Literature, Movies, Fine Arts,
and Music.
- For more information, visit The Muse's page called Welcome To The
Table Of Deities:
click here.
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Welcome To The World Of Deities |
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Prizes For Literature |
Prizes treated in this feature are awarded by recognized institutions and agencies. Historically, each
institution has concentrated on a specific branch of literary endeavor and
each has adopted a characteristic name for its prize. |
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Tops & Flops In The Arts |
Tops & Flops
is a collection of lists that show you
the who, what, when, where, and why of the arts in list format, including
literature. Tops &
Flops lists work
the same way as the Favorites lists or 10-Best lists you're probably
already familiar with. |
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Technical Aspects of Literature |
A reader
who understands the techniques of writing usually gets more from reading than one who does
not, whatever the writer's objectives may be, whatever the nature of the
reading material. A reader who has the skills needed to analyze what he
reads is likely to feel deeper, acquire more information in a shorter period,
read more accurately, and exhibit greater understanding of the material than
one who does not have these skills. Here, you explore how to get the most
our of reading by mastering the technical aspects of reading. |
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How To Approach A Poem |
The Muse Of Literature offers a few suggestions on how to get the most from
reading or hearing a poem. |
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The English Alphabet |
Explore the nature and history of the English alphabet. See it on your
screen; and, if English is not your native language, download a copy for
your personal use on your computer, PDA, or portable device. |
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The Greek Alphabet |
Explore the nature and history of the Greek alphabet. See the Greek alphabet
on your screen and download a copy for your personal use on your computer,
PDA, or portable device. |
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People First-Name Equivalents |
The Muse Of Language Arts presents a table of people first-name equivalents.
With the help of this table, if you know a person's first name in one
language, you can find the equivalent name in any one of a number of other
languages. |
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Welcome To Expository Prose Writing |
The primary goal of this feature is to explore aspects of prose writing
that help writers understand and write expository prose. Readers who explore the general nature of expository prose are better
able to absorb, understand, and exploit the expository prose they read. |
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Welcome To The World Of Creative Writing |
Creative writing is the creativity exhibited by a
literary work is its originality of thought or expression. A work that is
creative results from and displays its author's originality of thought or
expression and his imagination. Exploring this
feature may open your eyes to the full story of what it takes to be
literarily creative. It will help you to appreciate works you read
and to become a better reader. |
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Welcome To Expository Prose Writing |
Here The Muse Of Language Arts explores the subject of expository prose
writing and shows how to
get the most from writing or reading it. No doubt, you write some kinds
of expository prose every day. This feature will not only help you better
understand what other expository writers are telling you when you read their
works, it will help you to become a better writer yourself. |
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People First Name Equivalents Table |
Access this table if you're reading a book, story, article, or web page
about a person that's been translated into your native tongue from a foreign language.
It may really help to know how to refer to the person in your native
tongue.
For instance, those Russian names you read about in Tolstoy, Gogol, or
Dostoevsky are particularly tricky to deal with. Stella
in Russian is Estelle in English or French and Estrella or
Estrellita in Spanish. Probably those name differences aren't so hard
for you to handle. But what if you're faced with
translating Natasha or Varina? What if you're facing Feodor
or Fyodor?
This table lists over 200 male and
female English language first names that have equivalent names in other languages. If there's more than one equivalent name for a given language, the
additional equivalents are included and alternative spellings are
accounted for. |
About The People First Name & Given Name Equivalents Table |
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