Concordance browsing

Concordance Browsing
Fly fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe:) this is no place for liuing men. But full of fire and greedy hardiment
(The Faerie Queene Canto I)
This page gives you the opportunity to do some research in online texts and reference works. The texts are processed with TACT and linked to the web with TACTWEB. As Tactweb unfortunately runs in a dosshell this makes browsing a little slow.

Currently Available Material

Joyce's Ulysses

Ever wondered about the man with the macintosh?

Shakespeare's Complete Works

Explore the imagery or just search quotations

Bulfinch's Complete Mythology

Who is Hyperion? What about Avalon? Try here:
a huge description of classical and medieval stuff

Bronte Novels:
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Some remarks: In some of the texts there is no difference between dashes and hyphens; I replaced all dashes by hyphens to bar strange word combinations, so you can filter proper syntactic constructions but no dash-separated compounds.
There are no correct page references in the data files. If anyone of you wants to work with the texts seriously, you should contact me to insert page numbers corresponding to the Penguin edition. I don't have time for this, but if you have a bunch of quotations, it is faster to do the pages properly - you can quote all results directly, then.

This page uses only texts and software available in the internet. If you get interested in browsing and preparing texts yourself, try some of the following main sources:

Download the latest Tact Version

And try out some text databases for yourselves

The Online Book Page

The greatest page for online text resources - points everywhere

Projekt Gutenberg (deutsch)

Some german books online (Germanisten sind auch Menschen)

English Medieval Resources

Very nice - most people don't share their corpora

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

The most hilarious conundrum of facts you'll ever see; just browse a little while you're waiting for some download (Joyce read it too!)

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

While you're at it - they probably won't be familiar to you, but they sure are fun ( and useful too for the poor, allusion-hunting, uneducated sod who studies Arts nowadays)

A Dictionary of Sensibility

What's different in 18th century novels? This project takes some of the key terms of the period's episteme, critically discusses them in relation to other central notions of the zeitgeist, and illustrates them with lots of well discussed prototypical examples. Sounds pretty highbrow, but actually it's very easy and interesting to work with. A must for 18th century exam candidates.

If you would like to do some serious work with some etexts but can't cope with preparing them for TACT, try to mail me - I might put them on this page for you. Suggestions for texts are welcome. An upload area will soon be available.
My email: L. Mainka
Please refer to www-howth on the subject line, because
I am messing around with other systems as well.
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Joyce's Ulysses	Ever wondered about the man with the macintosh?
Shakespeare's Complete Works	Explore the imagery or just search quotations
Bulfinch's Complete Mythology	Who is Hyperion? What about Avalon? Try here: a huge description of classical and medieval stuff
Bronte Novels: Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	Some remarks: In some of the texts there is no difference between dashes and hyphens; I replaced all dashes by hyphens to bar strange word combinations, so you can filter proper syntactic constructions but no dash-separated compounds. There are no correct page references in the data files. If anyone of you wants to work with the texts seriously, you should contact me to insert page numbers corresponding to the Penguin edition. I don't have time for this, but if you have a bunch of quotations, it is faster to do the pages properly - you can quote all results directly, then.

Download the latest Tact Version	And try out some text databases for yourselves
The Online Book Page	The greatest page for online text resources - points everywhere
Projekt Gutenberg (deutsch)	Some german books online (Germanisten sind auch Menschen)
English Medieval Resources	Very nice - most people don't share their corpora
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable	The most hilarious conundrum of facts you'll ever see; just browse a little while you're waiting for some download (Joyce read it too!)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations	While you're at it - they probably won't be familiar to you, but they sure are fun ( and useful too for the poor, allusion-hunting, uneducated sod who studies Arts nowadays)
A Dictionary of Sensibility	What's different in 18th century novels? This project takes some of the key terms of the period's episteme, critically discusses them in relation to other central notions of the zeitgeist, and illustrates them with lots of well discussed prototypical examples. Sounds pretty highbrow, but actually it's very easy and interesting to work with. A must for 18th century exam candidates.