Literature



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	Literature A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html A comprehensive list of links to literature that is useful as a starting point for literature and writing. Site is divided into seven categories: Literature Indices; Doing Literary Research; English Dept. and Literary Institutes; Archives of Electronic Texts: Books and Presses: Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing; and the Teaching of Literature Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org There is a comprehensive collection links, e-texts, and other research aids, making this an excellent resource for students. Select Online Texts to move through the collection with links to other e-texts collections. Library Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit Links to literary web sites are organized into sections: Classical and Biblical (including Green and Roman Literature), Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-century, Romantic, Victorian British, Twentieth-Century British and Irish, American, Theatre and Drama and more. There is also a list of key general sources. Many links are useful to the general reader. Dictionary of Literary Terms http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm A -Z: Click on the letter. TOP Authors Celebration of Women Writers http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Great Writers and Poets http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html There are three categories to use on this site. Prize winners, including the Nobel Prize and other major prize lists, an A-Z list, and a third category of "other authors' lists. Authors on the Web http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/ This site is divided by literature genre. Click on the type of authors that interested you. You will find biographies, texts and other information. TOP American Literature American Literature Web Resources: Links http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/links.html This site is chronologically organized so you just scroll down to find the section of literary history you need. American Treasures of the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/ Permanent exhibition of the most rare, most interesting or significant items relating to Americas past, Including original drafts of the Gettysburg Address, notebooks that belonged to Walt Whitman and other materials appealing to those researching American literature and those interested in American history. American Writers: A Journey through History: Upton Sinclair and the Muckrakers http://americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp This site contains information about the author, his famous book which you can read, information about the time period, search for other authors famous in history, and look at different historical time periods. Bartleby.com: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge The Cambridge History has long been considered one of the most important works in literary history and criticism ever published. This 18 volume encyclopedia contains a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets. newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economics, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English language writing, such as Yiddish and Creole. On this on-line version, American literature is broken into 6 historical periods. Each period is further divided by sections and chapters, and it includes separate entries for important authors. History of American Literature http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/frameset.html American History is divided into periods of time with links to various kinds of information about our development as a country and links to authors are added by type of literature and by the name of the author. Outline of American Literature http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm This is a thorough overview of American literature from the Colonial period through the late 20th century. Each section features a description of the writing of the times, including important authors and works. American literature students will find this site useful and informative in researching specific time periods, genres, or authors. This site is published online by the U. S. Department of State International Information Programs. TOP English Literature British Poetry 1780 -1910 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html You have to search through the books that are listed to find what you want. The English Server http://eserver.org/ More than 20,000 essays, artworks, and articles on the arts and humanities. Literary works are grouped into topics such as Books, Drama, Fiction, Poetry, and Rhetoric. Other topics include Cultural Theory, 18^th century, Feminism, and Libraries. English Literature Resources http://www.virginia.edu/cla/english.htm This site, from the Center for the Liberal Arts has information for students and teachers. Check the list on the left to get to English Lange & Literature which is divided by general information, genre, and period period and Reading and Writing and more. TOP Poetry American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/ The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. Browse the collection or click on the area you can use. Anthology of Modern American Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps Includes lists of poets and their biographical information, relevant illustrations, manuscripts, drafts, of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews, and more. Lost Poets of the Great War http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/ Lost Poets of the Great War is a hypertext document on the poetry of World War I. It includes a chronology of the war as well as a brief essay about the "Human Cost" of the war. There are 6 poets featured with a biography and samples of their poems. Poetry 180 http://www.loc.gov/peotry/180 This is the creation of U. S. poet laureate Billy Collins. There are enough poems to share for each day of the school year. There is a page of tips for reading poetry aloud. View the site's guest list to see a list of the poems. Poets.org http://www.poets.org/ This site features biographies of 450 American poets and more than 1400 of their poems. Real Audio is required to hear clips of many of the poems. There is a listing of the poets, poetry organizations, book stores and events in the area. Two areas require registration. My Notebooks allows students to create their own anthologies and the discussion forums let students send in their poems, get help with homework and more. Representative Poetry Online http://cir.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm This site is based on a poetry textbook, this database contains nearly 3000 English-language poems from more than 400 poets. Founded and edited by an English professor, the site covers poetry from Caedmon to today. Search by the poet alphabetically or chronologically or by the poem title or first or last line. Poems can be chosen at random. Keyword searching is available. There is a glossary, and a timeline. TOP Genres Dictionary of Fantasy and Science fiction http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/ This site provides some possible cultural significance to various symbols, and suggests ways in which those symbols may have been used in context. Yahoo Lists of Genres http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/ Click on the genre which interests you for information and resources. TOP Historical and Cultural Studies American Writers: A Journey through History: Upton Sinclair and the Muckrakers http://americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp This site contains information about the author, his famous book which you can read, information about the time period, search for other authors famous in history, and look at different historical time periods. Eighteenth-Century Studies http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Lorraine Hansberry, U. S. Playwright: http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speach_387.htm Hansberry discusses her play, A Raisin in the Sun, the first ever written by an African woman to be produced on Broadway. TOP Homework Assistance High School Homework Center http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/hslit.html Resources compiled by the Homework Center in Oregon. Categorized research materials and e-texts, general sites, sites about specific works and authors, and literature by period or century. This is an excellent resource for researching almost anything.


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