Literary Criticism

Bedford St. Martin’s: VirtuaLit Interactive Fiction Tutorial
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/
Online lessons in literary analysis

Cornell University Library: Critically Analyzing Information Sources
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm
Step-by-step instructions for analyzing literature

IPL2: Internet Public Library Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Search for literary criticism by author, title of work

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C-SPAN: American Writers Series
http://www.americanwriters.org/
Biographical information on American authors spanning 400 years

Library of Congress: American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Online access to audio/visual materials that reflect “the American experience”

New York Times Topics
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/index.html
“News, reference, photos, graphics, audio and visual files” arranged by topic

Ohio University and WUOB: Wired for Books
http://wiredforbooks.org/
Author interviews & dramatic readings available for downloading or streaming on the web

PBS Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/
News, documentaries & streaming videos on an array of topics

The Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
Comprehensive database of humanities subjects including literature, history and philosophy

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Book Rags
http://www.bookrags.com/

Cliffs Notes
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/

Spark Notes
http://www.sparknotes.com/

Shmoop
www.shmoop.com/
Study guides for classic literature and poetry

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Bradbury, Ray
http://www.raybradbury.com/
Author’s official website

Authors

Blake, William
http://www.blakearchive.org/
William Blake Archive: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chopin, Kate
http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening on PBS

Lee, Harper
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Lee.htm
Criticism of Harper Lee: Literary History

Poe, Edgar Allan
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/index.cfm
Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection: Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin

Shakespeare, William
http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/welcome.htm
Hamlet on the Ramparts: MIT Shakespeare Project & Folger Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare, William
http://www.folger.edu/
Biographical information, educational materials, multimedia: Folger Shakespeare Library

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Poetry

The American Academy of Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.php
Audio archive, educational resources & publications

Bedford St. Martin’s: Interactive Poetry Tutorial
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/elements.html

UC Davis Libraries: British Women Romantic Poets Project
http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/index.htm
Online archive of British women poets of the Romantic Era

The Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill: Poetry Explication
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html#6
Techniques for analyzing and describing poetry

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ENG 2380 (World Literature)

Authors

Euripides
http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/medea.html
Internet Classics Archive: Medea by Euripides at M.I.T.

Gabler, Hedda
http://ibsen.net/index.gan?id=83
Ibsen.net: National Library of Norway

Research

Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

World Fact Book: CIA
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

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ENG 2410 (Children’s Literature)

Authors

Alcott, Louisa May
http://www.louisamayalcott.org/
Louisa May Alcott’s home Orchard House

Baum, L. Frank
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702371.html
Washington Post Obituary

Burnett, Frances Hodgson
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/secret_garden.html
Penguin Books Reading Guide

Cleary, Beverly
http://www.beverlycleary.com/
The World of Beverly Cleary - author’s official website

Cleary, Beverly
http://www.loc.gov/about/awardshonors/livinglegends/bio/clearyb.html
Library of Congress Beverly Cleary website

Gag, Wanda
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tsearch?oldartistid=218470
National Gallery of Art: Wanda Gag

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
National Geographic: Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrations by George Cruik­shank

Martin, George R. R.
www.georgerrmartin.com/
Author’s official website

Munsch, Robert N.
http://www.robertmunsch.com/
Author’s official website

Taylor, Mildred D.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=101
Scholastic Teachers: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

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Fairy Tales and the Oral Tradition

D.L. Ashman: Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Full text fairytales, folklore and mythological stories arranged by topic

Hockliffe Project: Images and Early [British] Children’s Books collection held at De Montfort University
http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+0+start.anv
Searchable images and transcriptions of children’s books arranged by theme, time period and author

Literature

Brown University: Fairytale Generator
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/FR0133/Fairytale_Generator/propp.html
Interactive story generator based on Vladimir Propp’s theories

International Children’s Digital Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Collection of international children’s literature searchable by author, title, country, etc.

Library of Congress: Children’s Literature Center
http://www.loc.gov/rr/child/

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Copyright-free e-books available for downloading (or reading) online

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