Links

General Web Sites for Literary Study

Invitations

Reference

• Glossaries
• Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesaurii
• Meta-Sites : literature links by subject
• Periods and Nations

Archives of ETexts

• General archives
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Drama
• Criticism

Fiction Web Sites

Poetry Web Sites

Drama Web Sites

Invitations:

These sites are good places for new students of literature to begin.They are good overviews, have enthusiasm, or are just plain fun.

• The Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection
  • This page on Literature invites students to start their study with the basic elements of short fiction presented clearly and concisely.
• Lyricalworks
  • Melissa Osborne's site demonstrates the dedication which only love of literature can produce. Her emphasis is on the new reader encountering intensely "the raw materials of meaning: symbols, myths, dreams, and stories."
• The Internet Public Library 
  • http://www.ipl.org
  • This site is one of the best collective research sites you could find: it includes, for example, "2498 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period."  In addition, "The IPL Reading Room Serials collection contains over 2300 titles that can be searched or browsed by subject or by title." The IPL is a great place to begin researching an author or title for online materials. Use it just as you would any great library.
• Malaspina.Com
  • http://www.malaspina.com/?clicktrade=287066
  • An unusual site devoted to helping students on the web in their research and writing task, be sure you visit the Great Books pages when you tour. It provides an excellent and comprehensive timeline/table approach which combines famous figures from different art.
• Voice of the Shuttle
  • http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
• Bibliomania.com
  • http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html
  • This site is an excellent and invaluable collection of materials for the student of literature, including etexts as well as many valuable reference works.

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These links help you study terms and concepts related to literature.

Glossaries

• Gale Group Free Resources: Glossary of Literary Terms:
  • http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/lit_kit/glossary.htm
• Glossaries, Concordances, quotations from American Literature on the Web
  • http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/general/references.htm
  • A web page filled with links to other glossaries
• Xrefer.com
  • http://xrefer.com
  • Xrefer.com allows you to search all of the following books online among which are the The Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Oxford Companion to the English Language to name only two
• Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms
  • http://dept.english.upenn.edu/%7Ejlynch/Terms/Temp/index.html
• Jack Lynch claims, his "guide is still in progress, and not quite ready for prime time" but it still has much to offer.
• Bob's GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS
  • http://www.poeticbyway.com/
  • Part of Bob's Byway, a site devoted to poetry. Bob is Robert G. Shubinski, a practicing psychiatrist
• A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
  • Robert Harris Vanguard of University of Southern California
• Dictionary of Literary Terms
  • http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/shakespeare/Literary.Terms.Menu.html
  • Joel Sommer Littauer
• The UVic Writer's Guide Literary and Rhetorical Terms Alphabetically and By Category
  • http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/MasterToc.html
  • The Department of English, University of Victoria
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
  • Gideon O. Burton Brigham Young University
  • http://humanities.byu.edu/ rhetoric/silva.htm
  • Outstanding site for looking up definitions and examples of rhetorical terms including main figures of speech terms.
• Figures of Speech
  • http://www.unipissing.ca/faculty/williams/figofspe.htm
  • from Professor Grant Williams - a table of links to brief definitions
• METAPHOR-OF-MIND
  • http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/%7Ejab/ATT-Meta/Databank/index.html
  • ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind
  • Use this site to see many examples of the way metaphors for our minds' operations fill our language.

   

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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri

• Encyclopedia Mythica
  • http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
  • This is an essential reference work in any reader's set of favorites
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and Websters Unabridged Dictionary of 1913
  • http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/frameset.html
• THE DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE BY E. COBHAM BREWER FROM THE NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION OF 1894 and Websters 1913 Unabridged dictionary are valuable tools for reseaching early works.
• Your Dictionary.com
  • http://www.yourdictionary.com/
  • A megasite with many links to types of dictionaries
• RhymeZone--A rhyme search engine
  • http://www.rhymezone.com/
  • From Lycos--"find rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more"
• Visual Thesaurus by Plumbdesign
  • http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/
  • A spectucular interactive thesaurus.
• The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  • http://www.wordsmyth.net/

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Meta-sites : literature links by subject

• VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: ENGLISH LITERATURE MAIN PAGE
  • http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
  • This site just about covers everything!
• Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
  • http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
• About.com Guide to English Literature - Home Page
  • http://englishlit.about.com/arts/englishlit/?REDIR_404=yes&
• The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource: Links for Creative People
  • http://www.zuzu.com/homelink.htm
• Michael's Website
  • http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/home.html
  • an amazing meta-site by Michael L. Hall devoted to Humanities Teaching on the Web
  • Michael's Humanities Scholarship Page
    • http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/scholarly.html
• Britannica
  • http://www.britannica.com/
• Beaucoup! Reference & Education -- Literature
  • http://www.beaucoup.com/3refeng.html

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Periods and Nations

• Labyrinth Home Page
  • http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
  • Resouces for Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
• Women of the Romantic Period
  • http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~worp/index.html
• Romantic Circles
  • http://www.rc.umd.edu/indexjava.html
  • a thoroughly scholarly website devoted to studying of the Romantic Period online
• Project Crow: American Literature (Course Resources on the Web)
  • http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/
  • Michael O'Conner's resources for the study (and teaching) of American Literature
• Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
  • http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/
  • Superior site teaching WWI poetry.
• The Victorian Web
  • http://65.107.211.206/victov.html
  • George Landow's exemplary site which has shown us what literary web sites can achieve.
• Victoria Resarch Web
  • http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/vwcont.html
  • Patrick Leary, History Department Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405
• Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
  • http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm
  • An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson

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Archives of ETexts :

links to primary works of literature on-line in digital form for printing or downloading.

General archives

• Project Bartleby Archive
• http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
• AHDS
  • http://ahds.ac.uk/
  • Arts and Humanities Data Service
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  • http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
• a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
• BIBLIOMANIA The Network Library Home Page
  • http://www.bibliomania.com/
• The Internet Classics Archive 441 searchable works of classical literature
  • http://classics.mit.edu/
• PROJECT GUTENBERG - HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY
  • http://promo.net/pg/
• one of the first archives of primary literature.
• Litrix Reading Room
  • http://www.litrix.com/readroom.htm
  • etexts are visually pleasing to read, but html is copyright protected

 

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Archives of Fiction

• Blackmask Online
  • An extensive archive of fiction
  • http://www.blackmask.com/page.php

Archives of Poetry

Classic Poetry

• REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ON-LINE:VERSION 2.04
  • http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
• Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Includes many of the poets we read.
• HTI American Verse Project
  • http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/index.html
• The Poetry Archives @ eMule.com
• http://www.emule.com/poetry/dispauthor.cgi#O
• Poetry
  • http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6681/poetry.htm

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Contemporary Poetry

• CAPA-Contemporary American Poetry Archive
  • http://camel2.conncoll.edu/ccacad/english/CAPA/index.html
• RedFrog - Poems from the planet Earth
  • http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~poems/
• Ken Hope's Home on a Page
• http://www.northshore.net/homepages/hope/Kenhopehome.html
• An amazing site with excellent commentary on narrative and poetry as well as a growing anthology of poetry etexts, both classic and contemporary.

Archives of Drama

• Trifles: A Play in One Act Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948
• Shakespeare
  • http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

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Archives of Criticism

• Literary History.com
  • http://www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm
  • " a guide to critical articles on literature for readers, students, scholars, writers, and teachers"