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Disciplines & Professions: LiteratureWeb SitesAbout.com's Art/Literature Directory Listings broken down by books and literature, performing arts, visual arts and design, writing and publishing, and languages. Includes daily feature sites. Bedford/St. Martin's LitLinks Organized alphabetically by author within 5 genres. Annotated links show you what kinds of information about a work, its author, or period you'll find on each site. fictionsearch Search for any title or fiction author, or browse through author, genre, or resources (i.e. reviews, bookstores, writer's groups) databases. Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection This is a great source if you are looking for substantive literary research and/or criticism, as it is solely dedicated to critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works. Can be browsed by author, title, nationality, or literary period. Open Directory's Literature Directory Large collection of a variety of literature-related information and online text archives collected under categories of specific genres, authors, and periods. The English Server A niche for literature not necessarily found on the more commercial sites. English server offers forty-two collections on diverse topics such as design, race, contemporary art, and more. Hypertext, audio, and video recordings are also available on this site. Voice of the Shuttle Humanities Web page directs you to extensive sets of literature links organized by period, nation, subculture, and genre. Includes highlights of pages of exceptionally interesting, ambitious, or technically advanced sites. Wisdom More of a place where writers publish their thoughts and express their creativity than a resource for theory and criticism. Digging can produce some interesting odds and ends, or material slightly to the left (or right) of the mainstream. Yahoo!'s Literature Directory Virtually all aspects of literature are covered here: online text, criticism, history, publishers, genres, and more. Good starting point—the emphasis is more on breadth than depth. DatabasesContemporary Authors (Gale Group) This database provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors. Covers fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, movies, television and more. Essay and General Literature Index (Wilson, available through SilverPlatter) Index of essays published in collections. Focuses mainly on social sciences and humanities. Includes sources from 1985 to 2000. MLA International Bibliography (MLA, available through OCLC FirstSearch) A bibliography of sources in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from 1963 to present. Covers nearly 4,000 journals and other sources as well. Women Writers Online (Brown University Women Writers Project) Includes full-text editions of more than 100 English and American women writers. Focuses on authors from 1500-1830. Includes separate section for Renaissance women. World Authors (Wilson, available through SilverPlatter) A database of information on more than 10,000 authors from a variety of cultures and across genres. Covers writers from 800 B.C. to the present. Print ResourcesBuck, Claire, ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 1992. Essays provide a geographical and historical overview of women's literature. Reference section includes alphabetical entries for works, authors and terms. Some entries include bibliographic information. Carey, Gary and Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. Covers a range of terminology from literature worldwide. Includes entries on writers, titles, periods, devices and modes. Organized alphabetically. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields. 97 Vols. Detroit: Gale, 1981-. Bibliographical and biographical information on more than 100,000 writers. Covers all genres of writing including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and more. Covers international writers. Cuddon, J. A. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Alphabetical list of literary terms, genres, forms, concepts, schools, and movements. Brief explanations for entries. Dictionary of Literary Biography. (DLB) Detroit: Gale, 1978-. Covers an enormous range of authors, periods, genres, cultures, and nationalities. Provides personal information, a list of publications, and critical reviews. Also includes a bibliography of books and articles about an author. Gunton, Sharon R., ed. Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Detroit: Gale, 1973-. Criticism and general information on authors of all genres of writing. Each entry includes passages from and reviews of authors' work. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1995. Provides descriptions of authors, major works, literary characters, and more. Also includes entries on literary terms. Organized alphabetically. Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 1981-. Excerpts from criticism on all genres of creative writing. Covers 300+ authors who died between 1800 and 1899. Includes a cumulative author and title index in each volume. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 1978-. Excerpts from criticism on all creative writing genres. Covers authors who died between 1900 and 1960. Includes a cumulative critic and author index in each volume. The Year's Work in English Studies. The English Association. Oxford: Blackwell, 1960-. This work provides a narrative bibliography of scholarly writing in English language and literature. Includes both articles and books arranged in chapters by literary topics. Provides critic, author and subject indices. |
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