South College Literature Classes English Composition (ENG 1200)

The Writing Center
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/resources.html
The Harvard Writing Center provides these resources.

English Composition With Research (ENG 1210)

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
http://www.homework-online.com/tgg/index.asp
The site includes a character analysis, discussion of themes, and summaries and explanations as well as a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions about the novel.

The Great Gatsby (http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/gatsby/)
This is a summary and analysis of the work by Harvard students.

The Great Gatsby (http://www.geocities.com/andrew_dilling/)
This site includes book and chapter summaries, character descriptions, vocabulary, trivia, essays and reviews, an author biography, and links to more Gatsby content.

NovelGuide: The Great Gatsby http://www.novelguide.com/thegreatgatsby/index.html Includes theme analysis, character profiles, and an author biography.

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies
(http://www.homework-online.com/lotf/)
The site includes a character analysis, discussion of themes, and summaries and explanations as well as a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions about the novel.

Lord of the Flies (http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/lordflies/) A summary and analysis of the work by Harvard students

Lord of the Flies (http://www.gerenser.com/lotf/)
Includes a summary, analysis, character descriptions, a map, vocabulary used in the novel, and links to more resources

NovelGuide: Lord of the Flies http://www.novelguide.com/lordoftheflies/index.html Includes character profiles, author biography and theme analysis.

Sir William Golding http://www.geometry.net/nobel/golding_sir_william.php Geometry Online Learning Center’s list of links for Golding and “Lord of the Flies.”

Introduction to Literature (ENG 2350)

Shakespeare

Complete Works of Shakespeare
(http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Web page of the complete works of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare on the Internet
(http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/)
A little bit of everything about Shakespeare: from a biography to pictures, to his poetry, texts of his works, and their summaries.

The Bard Web
(http://www.bardweb.net/)
Another great coverall of Shakespeare online.

Shakespearian Study Guide
(http://www.shakespeare.com/)
Shakespeare at eNotes contains all things Shakespeare. They have links to study guides, quotes, biography and FAQ s, as well as an encyclopedia on the Bard himself.

Quotations of William Shakespeare
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/William_Shakespeare)
268 different Quotes from Quotations.com

Shakespeare’s Grammar
(http://www.bardweb.net/grammar/04gloss.html)
A Shakespearian dictionary/database.

Absolute Shakespeare Glossary
(http://absoluteshakespeare.com/glossary/a.htm)
A Shakespearian glossary of terms.

Hamlet

Study Guides:

(http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Hamlet.id-121.html)
Cliff Notes study guide to Hamlet.

(http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xHamlet.html)
Cummings Study Guide to Hamlet.

(http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/hamlet/)
GradeSaver’s (Founded and run by Harvard Graduates) Study Guide to Hamlet.

(http://www.artsalive.ca/pdf/eth/activities/hamlet_guide.pdf)
Hamlet Study Guide put out by the National Arts Centre English Theatre Programmes for Student Audiences (IN PDA FORMAT).

Voices from the Gaps: Toni Morrison (http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/morrison_toni.html#bio ) University of Minnesota’s collection about North American women writers of color.

Sites About Beloved:

(http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=bel-64 ) These links are from the Internet Public Library.

To Kill a Mockingbird (http://www.homework-online.com/tkamb/index.asp)
The site includes a character analysis, discussion of themes, and summaries and explanations as well as a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions about the novel.

Harper Lee (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm)
Includes a biography of Ms. Lee and information on her publications.


World Literature (ENG 2380)

Bulfinch’s Mythology: Jason and the Argonauts – Medea (http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull17.html)

Internet Classics Archive: Medea by Euripides (http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/medea.html)

Ibsen.net (http://ibsen.net/index.gan?id=11111004&subid=0) Includes a chronological survey of Ibsen's life and works.

Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906) (http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=ibs-295 )

Internet Public Library’s links to biographies of Ibsen and literary criticism about his works.

The Africa Guide (http://www.africaguide.com/)

Directory of news, maps, culture of the countries of Africa.

WoYaa! Africa Search (http://www.woyaa.com/) Browse sites about Africa by country or topic.

Russia on the Web (http://www.valley.net/~transnat/) Links to sites about history, religion, culture, literature, and economy of Russia.

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Authors

American Authors on the Web (http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html ) This is a list of links to other websites about these authors. Authors are arranged chronologically.

Author Webliography (http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit/authors.html)
This is a list of scholarly sites about classic authors. Author List and

Great Books Index (http://books.mirror.org/)
This website is devoted to individual authors and titles.

Bulfinch’s Mythology (http://www.bulfinch.org/) Classic stories from Greek mythology, the legends of King Arthur, and the legends of Charlemagne.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/) The creator of this site refers to it as “an annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet.” It is an extensive collection of links to information concerning Shakespeare and his works.

Project Gutenberg (http://www.promo.net/pg/ ) Collection of free electronic books. Because of copyright restrictions, it only includes works that were published before 1923.

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Poetry

Modern American Poetry (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/) Links to 161 American poets and their work.

Poetry Archives (http://www.emule.com/poetry/)
This is an “educational resource dedicated to researching poetry.”

Poets.org (http://www.poets.org/) Website of the Academy of American Poets has information on over 200 American poets and the text of over 600 poems.

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