Online Tools: Language & Literature

American Literature Web Sites:

• Emily Grierson's house - before it became "an eyesore among eyesores"
• Companion website for Norton text book
• Henry Thoreau 
• Puritans in Colonial America - resources with great links
• Perspectives in American Literature - appendix to Gothic and American Literature.
• American Literature - contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources

Film Studies Web Sites:

• Cinema Sites-Databases
• Women in Cinema - a reference guide
• American Film Institute
• American Communication Association - Film Studies Center with links to film scholarship, general film studies, and business.

Folklore / Myth Web Sites:

• Myths and Legends for American Indians - listed according to geographic tribes.
• North American Indian History - at the bottom of this link is a grid with massive links for all aspects connected with North American Indians.
• American Folklore

Literary Criticisms / Scholarly Journals Web Sites:

• The Internet Online Literary Criticism Collection offers superb links for literary criticism with extensive bibliographical sources
• Perspectives in Literature - chronological links with information on authors.

Native American Literature Web Sites:

• Myths and Legends of American Indians
• North American Indian History Sites - at the bottom of the page is a complete grid with many, many topic associated with American Indian History, including literature, art, music, culture, and online texts

Reference Guide Web Sites:

• Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.
• RhymeZone aspires to become the premier reference tool for people who use words. You can use it to help write poetry, song lyrics, greeting cards, term papers, and more.
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples from the University of Kentucky
• Book-a-minute Classics

Shakespeare Web Sites:

• The Furness Shakespeare Library images of actual folio and quarto editions from the University of Pennsylvania
• Shakespeare Web Site - Berkshire, MA
• Globe Theatre - London, England
• Stratford (England) 
• The Folger Library in Washington
• Hot links to Shakespearean insults
• Shakespeare-in-an hour
• http://www.twc.org/
• Shakespearean Insults
• http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
• http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/shaklink.htm
• The Shakespeare Web
• The Tech Shakespeare Page at MIT
• The Alabama Shakespeare Festival
• The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC
• Shakespeare Searched - a search engine "designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets." Search results can be viewed by topic (such as love or death), work, and character. Includes options to view surrounding text of the passages and citations. The text of the plays is courtesy of Moby Lexical Tools. From the Clusty search software company. Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, LII.

Gale's Literary Index
Language Tools
Language Quiz: Are you a Rebel or a Yankee?
Online Literary Resources 
Links to American Writers

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