Busse Library provides the following websites for students and faculty seeking information about language, literature, and literary criticism. Resources reflecting a sampling of online information.
Reference -- Directories -- Literature -- Literary Criticism and Theory -- Electronic Texts -- Publishing and Writing -- Organizations and Associations
- Pulitzer Prize winners
- American Heritage Book of English Usage : Bartleby.com
- Bibliomania -- online literature and study guides
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature : Bartleby.com
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- History of the English Language (HEL)
- Inter-Play : An On-Line Index to Plays in Collections and Anthologies
- Iowa: A Literary Landscape - bibliography of adult and children's fiction for which Iowa is the setting.
- A Literary Index : Making Sense of Literature on the Internet
- Literary Resources on the Net -- by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
- Modern Language Association Documentation
- National Book Circle Award Winners
- ODLIS:Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
- Omniglot: A Guide to Writing Systems -- information on all written languages
- SparkNotes - online study guides to literature often taught in high school
- StoryArts Online -- storytelling in the classroom
- Today in Literature
- Writers' Guidelines Directory
- American Collection - ExxonMobil's Masterpiece Theatre's Educators' Site - Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Henry James, Eudora Welty
- American Literature on the Web
- Authors on the Web
- Chaucer Metapage
- Chaucer Sites
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- Electronic Literature Directory
- English Literature on the Web
- English Server : eserver.org
- Guide to 19th Century British Literature on the Internet
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- Perspectives on American Literature - bibliographies of resources
- Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature, Main Page - English & American literature
- Webliography: Shakespeare
- Wisdom: Knowledge and Literature Search -- resource directory
- WWW Medieval Resources
- Yahoo: Literature
- Yahoo:Poetry
- American Literature
- American Verse Project
- Bartleby: Verse: American and English Poetry
- British & Irish Authors on the Web
- Bulfinch's Mythology
- Complete Works of Marlowe
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- David Purdue's Dickens Page -- gateway to author
- Favorite Poem Project
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- Internet Classics Archive
- Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama
- Legends
- Mark Twain Resources -- edited by Jim Zwick
- Milton Reading Room - John Milton links
- Mythinglinks
- Mythologies
- Native American Authors - Teacher Resources
- Native American Authors - IPL
- Robert Burns Encyclopedia
- Romanticism on the Net
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
- Walt Whitman Notebooks : American Memory Project : Library of Congress
- A Bibliography of Literary Theory and Criticism. By Jose Angel Garcia Landa. (10th edition, 2005).
- British Literature Index: San Antonio College
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
- Contemporary Literary Theory: ENGL 4F70: Brock University, Professor John Lye
- Continental Philosophy. By Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida.
- "Critical Reading: An Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism." By Professor Barry Laga, Mesa State College.
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
- A Glossary of Literary Terms. By Robert Harris.
- IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection : Main Page
- Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website -- specializes in the Frankfurt School
- Introductory Guide to Critical Theory." By Dino Felluga, Purdue University.
- NovelGuide -- novel analysis guides for texts commonly taught in high school and college
- "Postmodernism and its Critics." By Shannon Weiss and Karla Wesley. University of Alabama, Dept. of Anthropology.
- Romantics Unbound
- Shakespeare High: Your Shakespeare Classroom on the Internet
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
- Who's Who in Theory
- Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts -- English and American literature
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Blake Digital Text Project
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts -- Irish literature
- Documenting the American South: The Digitized Library of Southern Literature
- Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction : University of Virginia
- Electronic Text Center : University of Virginia
- Great Literature Online
- Humanities Text Initiative: University of Michigan
- Iowa: A Literary Landscape - bibliography of adult and children's fiction for which Iowa is the setting.
- LOGOS Collection of Electronic Books -- focus on multilingual novels
- Mark Twain in His Times
- On-Line Books Page -- University of Pennsylvania
- The Periodic Table of Poetry
- Project Bartleby :The New Bartleby Library
- Project Gutenberg
- William Shakespeare - Bartleby.com
- Bookwire: The Book Industry Resource-- inside the book business
- Drew's Script-O-Rama
- FACSNET -- tools for journalists
- Good Grammar, Good Style
- Grammar.now
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Iowa International Writers Program
- Purple Crayon -- advice from a children's book editor
- Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors: Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
- ScreenWriters Online
- Sensible Solutions -- self-publishing, getting published, and marketing options
- SPAWN: Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network
- Welcome to the Book Arts Web
- Writer's Digest : Your Online Guide to Getting Published
- Writing Argumentive Essays
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