English Language Arts

• *** The Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ Awesome Library organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education
• BookBroswer http://www.bookbrowser.com
  BookBrowser is a site dedicated to the love of reading. See the Reader's Resources section for biographies and new works.
• ***University of Buffalo Library Reference Sources http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/selected.html Reference sources on the NET. MANY CHOICES. NY bias.
• **Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Web page for humanities research. Very well organized links to a large variety of subjects from anthropology to women's studies brought to you by the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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• International Reading Association http://www.reading.org
• NCIBA http://www.nciba.com/californ.html Welcome to the NCIBA page of California literature. Here you will find information on California literary history, including notable books with California settings and subject matter, as well lists of significant California writers.
• National Council of Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org/ A professional association of educators in English studies, Literacy and Language Arts.
• S.C.O.R.E. Language arts Literature 9-12 http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/stories/stlit912.html Schools of California Online Resources for Education Links aligned with California Content Standards for Language Arts.

   

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• Authors of the Beat Generation http://members.tripod.com/~jbrooks/authors.htm
• Authors on the Web - http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jbh/author.html A collection of biographical sketches.
• *A Celebration of Woman Writers http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/mmbt/women/writers.html#W_alphabet The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing.
• Yahoo! Beat Generation Authors http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Periods_and_Movements/Beat_Generation/Authors/ Burroughs, Cassady, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Gysin, Kerouac, McClure, Snyder and others.
• Biography http://www.biography.com/ Commercial site for Biography magazine.
• Domestic Goddess Literary Criticism http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/dgcriticism.htm Rather off-beat appearance but contains academic works of some mainstream women writers.
• Georgetown University American Studies Literature and Literary Criticism http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/lit.html Literature and hyperlinks to numerous related sites.
• Index of Web Sites on Modernism http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/Title.html Welcome to the Annotated Index to Web Sites on Modernism maintained by the Malcom S. Forbes Center at Brown University. The following links contain annotated references to web pages and gopher files on artists, poets, novelists, musicians, critics, and philosophers who wrote, created, and composed in the first half of the twentieth century.
• Information USA Links to Literary Criticism http://www.usia.gov/usa/infousa/arts/critics.htm Short list of links to university and organizational sites about American Literature. Produced by the U.S. Department of State.
• Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
  List of 2504 critical and biographical websites. 
• Literary Traveler http://www.literarytraveler.com/ Welcome to The Guide for the Literary Traveler. Our goal is to explore the world of your literary imagination. Bookseller with lots of useful information.
• Modernism timeline http://faculty.washington.edu/eckman/timeline.html Modernism Timeline: 1890-1940 All of the entries from the timeline now live in a database. This allows for not only listings by year, but for any kind of search- by author, title, keywords, etc.
• New York State Writer's Institute SUNY http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/vwindex.html Index to brief articles about a number of writers, some with pictures and audio clips.
• *Schoolwork Ugh! http://www.schoolwork.org/books.html Literature and related sources for biographies and critical interpretation. See the list of authors.
• Writing and Resistance by Jody F. Kerr, UCLA http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/authors.html This web site was created as a project for my ENG354 class, "Writing and Resistance: African American Literature and Thought" taught by Dr. Sandoval, a visiting professor from UCLA. Includes Baldwin, Bambara, Walker, Wright and others.
• WW Norton NAAL http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/index/authlist.htm Brief Biographies and analysis of authors' works in chronological context with world events. Includes links to excellent sites and explorations for students on specific works of literature.

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• American Literature: Twentieth Century Texts and Resources http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/litlink.html These sites are clusters of etexts or resources related to Twentieth Century American literature. Annotated links to a variety of sites.
• Bartleby Library http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
  Full text of American and English poetry from 1250-1920.
• Great Writers and Poets Homepages http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html Links to the "official" homepages by and about authors, many not-so-mainstream. International in scope. Includes lists of literary prize winners, too.
• Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol. II, 3rd ed. http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/sites2.html Links to many literary sites.
• A Literary History of the American West http://www.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/ SPONSORED BY The Western Literature Association. Full text of this 1330+ page book
• Rutgers Univ - Literary Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ Excellent list of links.
• *U-Conn UCL English and American Literature http://www.lib.uconn.edu/subjectareas/engweb.html Links to many academic web-pages. Some resources may be limited to U-Conn computers.
• William Shakespeare, Complete http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
  MIT's Online version of the ocmplete works with sophisticated search engine.
• **Voices from the gaps, women writers of color http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ Welcome to Voices From the Gaps, an instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color
• ***Voice of the Shuttle Web page for humanities research http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Links by subject. Excellent. . Some sites restricted to University of Minn. users. Some dead links.
• *Women Writers: A Literary http://www.womenwriters.net/ A literary magazine for and by women writers. "An internet guide to internet resources…women reading, writing, talking…" Excellent links by time period as well as links to additional criticism pages. 

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Bambara, Toni Cade http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/bambara/ This web site was created as a project for my ENG354 class, "Writing and Resistance: African American Literature and Thought" taught by Dr. Sandoval, Jody F. Kerr.

Bambara, Toni Cade http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/bambara119-au-.html New York University. Brief summary and commentary on two short stories; A Girl's Story and The Salt Eaters.

Bambara, Toni Cade text of "The Lesson" http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/class/bambara.htm Credit University of Mississippi.

Willa Cather Lecture Hall http://www.mobydicks.com/lecture/WilmaCatherhall/wwwboard.html This lecture hall is devoted to all contemplations, musings, and queries concerning Willa Cather. We'd love to hear your suggestions regarding the best books, chapters, essays, and criticisms.

Chaucer, Geoffrey http://www.librarius.com/index.html

*Chaucer, Geoffrey http://luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm from Anthology of Middle English.

Chopin, Kate - Literary Traveler http://www.literarytraveler.com/summer/south/clout.htm If you didn't know Kate Chopin had lived there for a time, you might never have heard of or driven through Cloutierville with a second glance. Bookseller.

Cisneros, Sandra - Interview gopher://clnet.ucr.edu/00/Researcher/Arts%20&%20Humanities/Literature/Interviews/Interview%20with%20Sandra%20Cisneros/Part%20I%09%09%2B This interview with Sandra Cisneros was published in Dasenbrock's and Jussawalla's Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World (Univ. Press of Miss., 1992). Included also is a discussion of her work

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Faulkner's short stories http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/stories.html A bibliographical reference to the author's short stories with TABLES of CONTENTS for each collection.

William Faulkner "The Bear" http://venus.nmhu.edu/~english/nuetz.htm Criticisms and further works and sites by and about Faulkner.

William Faulkner on the Web http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html Links to novels and short stories.

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AUTHORS GHI

Allen Ginsberg - http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/AllenGinsberg.html Levi Asher's page on Ginsberg contains excellent biblio-biographical background and related sources.

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AUTHORS JKL

Jack Kerouac - http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/JackKerouac.html Levi Asher's page on Kerouac contains excellent biblio-biographical background and related sources.

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AUTHORS MNO

McCullers, Carson http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/McCullers.html Includes biography, bibliography and criticism of works.

Momaday, N. Scott - Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=mom-253 Biographical sites listed. Not Critical sites.

Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates home page http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.html Celestial Timepiece is intended to be a resource for fans, students, and scholars of Joyce Carol Oates's work. Not an "official" site, but informative.

O'Connor, Flannery http://peacock.gac.peachnet.edu/~sc/foc.html The Flannery O'Connor Collection at the Ina Dillard Library, Georgia College and State University. Some inaccessible links but many useful ones also.

O'Connor, Flannery - Literary Traveler http://www.literarytraveler.com/summer/south/oconnor.htm One writer that invites you to go beyond words is Flannery O'Connor. The contradictions of violence and faith in her fiction distinguishes her among Southern writers and makes one wonder who she was and where she was from. Bookseller.

Olsen, Tillie http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/olsen.html Use these sources to become better acquainted with your author. Extensive bibliographies.

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AUTHORS VWXYZ

Walker, Alice Anniina's Alice Walker Page http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ excellent source of information including many links to criticisms and analysis.

West, Dorothy http://www.wanonline.com/blackhistory/1999/blackhistory19996138.html Dorothy West and the Often Stifled Female Literary Voices of the Harlem Renaissance By Dara Cook WAN Black History. Interview with Dorothy West.

Yamamoto, Hisaye - Voices from the gaps http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/HisayeYamamoto.html Biography, critical analysis bibliography of works by and about the author. Links.

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