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English
Other Useful Sources
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ArtBomb
-- a site devoted to graphic novels -- news, reviews,
bios of the artists, and more.
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BBC
Online: Voices from the Archive -- audio interviews of
selected writers. Nice primary source for English papers and
presentations.
- BUBL
Link: Catalogue of selected Internet resources for Stage Presentations--includes
production reviews and scholarly sites on drama.
- The
Calendar OF HENRY JAMES Correspondence--identifies more than
10,400 James letters, published and unpublished, extant in more than
130 libraries, museums, archives, and private collections in the
United States and abroad. It also includes a biographical list of the
recipients of the letters.
- Cyberspace,
Hypertext & Critical Theory
- DNA
of Literature -- from the Paris Review: "you can
read, search and download any or all of over three hundred in-depth
interviews with poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics,
musicians, and more, whose work set the compass of twentieth-century
writing, and continue to do so into the twenty-first century."
actual interviews in .pdf format.
- English
Lit Links
- English
Literature And Religion -- "a large bibliographical
database (8500+ records) about religious aspects and backgrounds of
English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century, with
primary (though not exclusive) emphasis upon writers within the
Anglican tradition."
- Evaluating
Web sites: Criteria and Tools-- this guide gives you a
series of questions to help you determine how worthwhile a web site
is.
- Guide
to Critical Reading of Literature--Professor John Lye's guide
for his students.
- Handbook
of Rhetorical Devices and Glossary of Literary Terms--useful
when you don't know your assonance from your metonymy.
- Humbul
Humanities Hub -- "discovers, evaluates and catalogues
online resources in the humanities of use to students, teachers and
researchers, with a strength in resources for English. . . "
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Learning
Strategies Database--- derives from a number of sources,
including books, professional journals, and presentations from
professional meetings.
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Literary
Locales--scenes of Jane Austen country, Shakespeare's
Stratford, James Herriott's Yorkshire, Thomas Gray's Stoke Poges,
Wordsworth's Lake District, etc.
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National
Council of Teachers of English--including "Teaching
Ideas," "Conversations," a "public policy
center," and more.
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National
Story Project -- from National Public Radio.
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New
York Times Book Review--text of NYTBR for all of 1998, plus
search all book reviews since 1980; free with registration.
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Plagiarism.org--allows
automatic checking of student papers for plagiarism.
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PAL---
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide by
Paul Rueben of California State University, Stanislaus. This work is
valuable as a quick and convenient reference to the major movements
and various authors in American Literature. New authors and research
and bibliographical information continue to be added regularly.
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Pocketbook.org
-- 100 important thinkers and writers and 30 subject areas.
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the
Problem of Meaning in Literature--another guide by Professor
Lye.
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Reviewing the Evidence
-- a mystery novel review site, searchable by author, title or keyword.
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Rhapsodies
in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
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Syllabi
for Early American History and Literature
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The
Web Concordances-- literary concordances on the web for Keats,
Shelley, Coleridge, Blake & Manley Hopkins.
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Writer's
Market -- writer's guidelines of
book publishers and producers.
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Writers on America -- The
US State Department asked 15 contemporary American poets, novelists,
critics, and historians what it means to be an American writer. The
resulting essays present an interesting light on the U.S. and the
American character.
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