Sources and Useful On-Line Sites for Writing about Literature

 

The following are useful on-line guidelines and suggestions for writing about literature:

http://www.stockton.edu/~kinsellt/litresources/writingsuggestions.html

http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line/lit-guide.html

http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line/lit-poem.html

http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line/qfor-lit.html

http://www.english.wayne.edu/~peterson/fiction/litbasics.html

http://www.english.wayne.edu/~peterson/fiction/quotations.html

http://www.english.wayne.edu/~peterson/fiction/developessay.html

http://www.english.wayne.edu/~peterson/fiction/litessay.html

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/tips/writtechlitpaper.htm

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/siewers/106/writinglit.htm

http://polaris.acast/nova.edu/~alford/writelit.html

http://www.uvm.edu/~wstephan/dante/writelit.htm

http://www.meredith.edu/learn/wrtngctr/writhelp/literatr.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_lit.html

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature.html

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/bktext1.html

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~babydoll/coursematerial/spring96/closereading.html

http://www.ricks.edu/Ricks/employee/kellerr/handouts/eng250/writing.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/wal/walhome.htm

Additional Resources

A Literary Index
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/Litmain.html

This site is an index to numerous literary and writing resources (with brief descriptions of each) on the web. Its contents include literature indices, doing literary research, English departments and literary institutes, archives of electronic texts, books and presses, composition, rhetoric and writing, and the teaching of literature. One link you might find particularly helpful is to Jack Lynch's Rutgers site:
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

The Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html

This site includes numerous resources on literature in English, as well as links to other literatures. The site has a search function.

CUNY Graduate Center Resources for Literature
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/library/Research/lit.htm

This is a very extensive site with hyperlinks at the top to guide you through. It includes a pretty extensive list of good sites devoted to individual authors ("Selected Literary Figures") listed alphabetically.

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