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Literature and Critical Resources
Literature and Critical Resources
"A guide to critical articles on literature for readers, students, scholars, writers, and teachers." Includes web indices of 19th and 20th Century literature by author.
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DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
"A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.""Publishes selected prose and poetry on the web and in print anthologies ..., develops materials for high school teachers to use foreign literature in classrooms, and continues to build an unparalleled online resource center for contemporary global writing."Map famous literary journeys with GoogleEarth."Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955." From Duke University."The PEN America Digital Archive captures more than 50 years of cultural programming at the intersection of literature and freedom of expression advocacy. With generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the digital archive makes available long-inaccessible but valuable public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times."Back to Top
Poetry Links
Poetry Links
A plethora of poetry resources."The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.""Poetry in America, created and directed by Harvard professor Elisa New, is a public television series and multi-platform educational initiative that brings poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world.In partnership with Harvard, Poetry in America offers free online courses for global learners as well as for-credit and professional development courses for undergraduates, graduate students, highly motivated high-school students, and educational practitioners. Its public television series Poetry in America (presented by WGBH Boston and distributed by American Public Television) first aired nationwide in April 2018. Poetry in America returned for a second season in April 2020, and is airing on public television stations in most major markets across the US."From the University of Michigan: "assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920." With multiple search options."An online journal and multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson.""The classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant."From the Poetry Society of America.A poem a day for the school year, compiled by Poet Laureate Billy Collins.Looking for a rhyme?"What Is Poetry?, Poetry Types, Haiku, Handbook, Poetry Guide, Famous Poets, Resources,Classics, Movies, and more.""Publishes selected prose and poetry on the web and in print anthologies ..., develops materials for high school teachers to use foreign literature in classrooms, and continues to build an unparalleled online resource center for contemporary global writing."
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Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
"Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut read from their work at the Library of Congress." From the Library of Congress.Back to Top
Literary Texts Online
Literary Texts Online
"The Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books." A large selection of classic literature."A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.""Over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books." From the Internet Archive.
Digital Public Library of America
"Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.""Provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening." mp3 or ogg files."A free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. ... Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go; Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer; View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen; Print out the stories and poems to make your own book." Very well done. From the University of South Florida."Publishes selected prose and poetry on the web and in print anthologies ..., develops materials for high school teachers to use foreign literature in classrooms, and continues to build an unparalleled online resource center for contemporary global writing.""Digitizes English-language literary magazines from the 1890s to the 1920s. We also offer essays and other supporting materials from the period."International Children's Digital Library
Read children's books in 54 languages free and online."Founded in 1934, Partisan Review magazine was one of the most significant cultural literary journals in the U.S." From the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Famous monologues for all actors.Back to TopResources on Specific Genres or Time Periods
Resources on Specific Genres or Time Periods
Resources for Medieval studies from Georgetown University. An excellent resource!Primary and secondary sources on Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, the history of London, and much more. From Tufts University. Another excellent site!"An online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legends. It currently contains over 6,100 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings from all over the world."
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NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)s
"A scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Our activities are driven by three primary goals: to serve as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American; to support scholars’ priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials; to develop software tools for new and traditional forms of research and critical analysis.""A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture."A valuable guide to literature of the Victorian Age (1830-1900).16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
"Growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two."African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
From the University of Virginia."Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information." From the University of Rochester.The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
"Explores the role these burgeoning and extraordinarily inventive forms of advertising played in marketing mass-produced products to the evolving American consumer culture." From Harvard Business School.Back to Top
Resources for Individual Authors
Resources for Individual Authors
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Includes the Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe and much more."The literature, life, and times of Edgar Allen Poe.""Read our fluid text edition of Walden to understand Thoreau’s process of composition across the seven existing manuscript versions of the work. See the changes he made to any one version and compare changes across versions.""A creative and critical collaboratory for reading Dickinson's material bodies and for featuring new critical and theoretical work about Emily Dickinson's writings, biography, reception, and influence, the Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 is a scholarly resource showcasing the possibility of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and exploring the potential of the digital environment to reveal new interpretive material, cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts."Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
Harriet Beecher Stowe."An ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings." From the University of Nebraska."Conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility."Access to the interview archives of the BBC. Lots of stuff!Back to Top
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
"Dive into the rich world of Shakespeare with our full-text, interactive editions of his plays. myShakespeare replaces traditional footnotes with multimedia resources for the 21st-century student.""A collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.""You’ll find key facts, key scenes, pictures from past productions, videos of actors and directors working on and performing the plays AND find out about all the main characters and how they relate to each other. "From the Royal Shakespeare Company.Back to Top
Mythology
Mythology
"The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion." Lots of primary sources and excellent galleries of images."The Greek Mythology Link is primarily concerned with the creative, artistic, literary and inspiring aspects of the Greek myths. The Greek Mythology Link is not concerned with the historical, religious, liturgical, anthropological, archaeological, philosophical, ideological, sociological, linguistic, or psychoanalytical approaches to the Greek myths.""An online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legends. It currently contains over 6,100 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings from all over the world."Companion site to the book Classical Mythology by Morford and Lenardon (292.1 MOR). Translations, primary souces, images, and more.Resources for Medieval studies from Georgetown University. An excellent resource!Primary and secondary sources on Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, the history of London, and much more. From Tufts University. Includes:The earliest Greek account of the origin of the gods. Hesiod's other great mythological work. Important early Greek mythological poems. The Roman poet's vast and entertaining collection of myths. Back to Top
Film
Film
"A HUGE collection of movie information ... by movie fans for movie fans."Find reviews of current and past movies.
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Comics/Graphic Novels
Comics/Graphic Novels
"This collection focuses on comics created specifically for the web and supplements the Library of Congress’ extensive holdings in both comic books, graphic novels, and original comic art. Webcomics are an increasingly popular format utilized by contemporary creators in the field and often includes material by artists not available elsewhere. Webcomics selected for this collection include award-winning comics (Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, Eagle Awards, and Shuster Awards) as well as webcomics that have significance in the field due to longevity, reputation, and subject matter. This collection includes work by artists and subjects not traditionally represented in mainstream comics, including women artists and characters, artists and characters of color, LGBTQ+ artists and characters, as well as subjects such as politics, health and human sexuality, and autobiography. The content of these websites is captured as it was originally produced and may include content that is not suitable for all ages." From the Library of Congress.
The Global Webcomics Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The collection is curated by Karen Green (Columbia) and André G. Wenzel (Chicago). The Global Webcomics Web Archive aims to preserve selected webcomics and creator websites from all over the world in order to assure the continuing availability of these important, and potentially ephemeral, documents for use by researchers and scholars. This initiative intends to preserve webcomics and websites in a wide variety of styles, subjects and themes, in many different languages, created by a diverse group of artists. From the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.
Writing Tools
Writing Tools
Plug in your information and get a correct citation."Your one-stop source for all your bibliography needs!""A free MLA bibliography composer. By using it, students can format over thirty different types of sources. These sources are then alphabetized and formatted for printing."Research and documentation help from the Online Writing Lab from Purdue University.
Basic Steps in the Research Process
Takes you through the process of writing a research paper, including a handy Outline Maker. From Cambridge Rindge and Latin School."Meanings and Origins of Phrases, sayings, cliches and quotes ."Looking for a rhyme?More of the same.Back to Top