English and Literature Links
Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism is not always freely available on the Web. The best places to find literary criticism online for Mississippi's residents is through the Magnolia Project. Use the Academic Search FullTEXT Elite from EBSCO or the Gale site. Logon and password information is available at the MGCCC libraries as well as other participating libraries in the state. The MGCCC Libraries subscribe to Gale's Literature Resource Center. Username and password available in the libraries.
Literary Resource Sites
Norton Anthology of American Literature Online - Web sources on American writing.
Norton Anthology of English Literature Online - Web sources on English writing.
MAPS (Modern American Poetry)- This site is a multimedia Companion to Oxford University Press's Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Provides poetry criticisms
Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature - This collection by Alan Liu's provides links to English literature by genre - Drama, Fiction, and Poetry.
Literary Resources on the Net - This site compiled by Jack Lynch allows you to search for a word or choose from categories.
English Departments Worldwide - From New York University, this site provides links to English Department Home Pages.
English and American Literature Resources - The University of Connecticut Libraries provides and extensive listing of Internet resources. Old English and Medieval Literature, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Romantic, Victorian English, Nineteenth-Century American, Twentieth-Century America, and Twentieth-Century English, Irish, Welsh are some of the categories on this page.
MIT Libraries: Literature Resources -This collection of Internet resources provides links to Classical and Medieval Literature Sites, 16th-19th Century Literature Sites, Twentieth Century Literature Sites, American and Canadian Literature Sites, Drama Sites, Poetry Sites, Literary Works in Full Text, Sites Devoted to Specific Authors or Works, and more.
LSU Libraries Webliography: Literature - Provides an annotated list of literature related sites. Very useful is the Author Webliography with Internet links for selected authors.
Poe Webliography - "A critical guide to electronic resources for Poe research on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM."
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary - Provides a brief biography, chronology, electronic texts of some of his short stories, and bibliographies of works by and about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. (University of South Carolina)
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s. - This site maintained by Alan Filreis provides articles and materials on the literature, politics, sociology, and arts from America's 1950s. (University of Pennsylvania)
Romantic Chronology - This excellent resource provides reference information, full-text articles, primary materials, and graphic items for the years 1660-1851.
The Mississippi Writers Page - Biographical information, lists of published titles, and bibliographies are provided for Mississippi authors.Literay Landmarks, a Mississippi Writer Timeline, and information on Mississippi publishers is also included on this page.
Online Writing Labs
Purdue Online Writing Lab - This site provides valuable resources and links for students and instructors. There are over 130 handouts Instructional Handouts about General Writing concerns, Writing Research Papers & Citing Sources, Writing in the Job Search, Professional Writing, English as a Second Language, parts of speech, Sentence Construction, Punctuation, and Spelling.
Princeton's Writing Center- This site provides online handout addressing developing a thesis statement, plagiarism, writing anxiety, and outlines.
Harvard's Writing Center -Havard's Writing Center 's online handouts cinclude such topics as The Book Review, Comparison/Contrast Essays, and the Mysterious Semi-colon.
Grammar
Guide to Grammar & Writinng - Maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College and for the general online public.
Online Resources for Writers -Links to writing resouces provided by Professor of English Charles Darling.
Etexts
Bullfinch's Mythology - An excellent hypertext version of a classic with links to other sites and images.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Provides an electronic source for the works of William Shakespeare. Both a chronological and and alphabetical listing are available. Includes a listing of Shakespeare resources on the Web, Shakespearean quotations, and a glossary
Alex: Catalogue of Electronic Texts - This is "a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy."
The Academy of American Poets - Biographies, photographs, and poetry of American poets.
American Verse Project - An electronic archive of American poetry from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.
Representative Poetry On-line - Public domain poetry of over 236 poets with some criticism. (University of Toronto English Library)
The Internet Classics Archive - Over 400 works of classical literature provided in English translation.
Miscellaneous
Bartlett Familiar Quotations - The 9th edition of John Bartlett's Familiar Quoationas is available from the Project Barleby.
MLA Style - Provides authorized guidelines from the Modern Language Association of America for documenting World Wide Web sites.
Writing Argumentative Essays - Originally created for ESL students, Bill Daly's site provides the necessary steps for writing an argumentative essay.
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