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)

Fahrenheit 451

CliffsNotes Fahrenheit 451
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-106.html
Study guide series concerning Fahrenheit 451

SparkNotes Fahrenheit 451
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451
Fahrenheit 451 study guide

Fahrenheit 451
http://gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/fahrenheit
A summary and analysis of the work by students from Harvard

Bookrags - Fahrenheit 451
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/451

Long Beach Reads One Book - Fahrenheit 451
http://cetl.edtech.csulb.edu/f451
An interactive Jeopardy game based on the Bradbury novel

Fahrenheit 451 Quiz
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz15527111c8450.html

Interview
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1114088
NPR interview with Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury.com
http://www.raybradbury.com
Ray Bradbury's personal website

Ray Bradbury Interview
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-987373724211786057
A Google video discussion with Ray Bradbury

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:

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

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

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

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

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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Literary Criticism

Interet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
According to IPL, this site includes “4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.” It is searchable by author, title, nationality, or literary period.

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
A huge database of humanities subjects with links to web pages, including: Literature (in English) for English and American literature
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
Literatures (other than English) for world literature
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719

Literary Theory
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718
about philosophies and styles of writing.

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Voices from the Gaps
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
University of Minnesota’s collection about North American women writers of color.

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.

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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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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