Literature - Interpretation and Criticism

 

"Literature is the memory of humanity." --Isaac Bashevis Singer-- 

Check out the print resources in the Penturn Library by searching our OPAC. Then, consult our online databases. For additional information, try the links below. *New links are regularly added to this site, so check back often. The teaching and learning resources listed below have been selected for staff and student use.

 

Cherchez les ressources sur papier à la bibliothèque Penturn en utilisant notre catalogue "OPAC." Aussi, consultez les bases de données. Pour l'information supplémentaire essayez les liens qui se trouvent ci-dessous. On ajoute régulièrement de nouveaux liens; alors, regardez ce site de temps en temps. Les ressources d'enseignment et d'apprentisage ont été choisies pour les professeurs et les étudiants.

 

English Studies Gateways

The most comprehensive gateway for English is Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle Under Literature (English), material is subdivided into general resources, chronological periods, regions, or genres. These sub-categories are further divided (e.g. General References, Authors/Works, and so on).

 

In the UK there is a national initiative to provide a series of catalogues of online resources, for students, teachers or researchers to look to as a first port of call. Intute: Arts and Humanities covers a range of subjects including literature.

 

• EServer : The EServer's primary function is to publish texts in the arts and humanities.
• Bibliomania Reference - A collection of browsable electronic reference works including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and Roget's Thesaurus. Bibliomania has an extensive library of reference books, biographies, classic non-fiction and religious texts.

• Bartleby Reference Collection - a wide range of reference works from an American source, which can be searched individually or collectively.

• Luminarium: Anthology of English LiteratureModern Languages Association (MLA)
• Oxford Text Archive:The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora. The Oxford Text Archive does not produce digital resources, and we rely upon deposits from the wider community as the primary source of high-quality materials.

 

General Literary Resources: What the critics say:

 

• Critical Approaches to Literature
• Online Literary Criticism Collection:At the Internet Public Library.
• University of Toronto English Library (UTEL):An extensive collection of the major works of English and American literature.
• Links to Literature:Famous Quotes, Famous Works, Famous Opening Lines, Famous Last Words.
• Links to Places Literary:From the University of Dundee.
• A Literary Index:Internet resources in literature prepared by Chris Flack. A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.
• Literary Resources on the Net Maintained by Professor Jack Lynch at Rutgers University.
• Literature Webliography

 

 

Language 

 

• A Glossary of Literary Terms by Robert Harris 

• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

 

 

General Forms

 

Haiku

• Butterfly Dreams

• The Haiku Poet's Hut
• The Haiku Society of America
• In the Moonlight a Worm
• Naia's Poetry & Art

Elizabeth Bishop:1911-1979

• American Authors on the Web
• Voices and Visions
• Vassar
• Academy of American Poets

T.S.Eliot:1888-1965

• T.S.Eliot:The Sacred Wood - Essays on Poetry and Criticism
• Voices and Visions
• What the Thunder Said

John Keats:1795-1821

• The Life and Works of John Keats
• John Keats :from the British Library
• John Keats: An Overview: from Victorian Web.
• John Keats : a brief biography.

Chinua Achebe

"Chinua Achebe is one of Africa's most influential and widely published writers. He has written twenty-one novels, short-stories and collections of poetry. His first and best-known post-colonial landmark novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) was published at the age of 28, and has proved popular not just in Nigeria, but throughout Africa and the rest of the world. Achebe has also won acclaim for Arrow of God, which is winner of the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award, Christmas in Biafra, joint winner of the first Commonwealth Prize, and Anthills of the Savannah (1987), a finalist for the prestigious Booker Prize in England."

• Chinua Achebe and "Things Fall Apart":Links, essay questions, and an interview with Achebe, from Central Oregon Community College.
• Chinua Achebe Biography:From the New York State Writer's Institute.
• Chinua Achebe: An Overview:From Postcolonial Literature in English.
• Chinua Achebe:"Things Fall Apart: A Study Guide.":Notes prepared by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University, last revision, December, 2005.

 

Robertson Davies

Charles Dickens

Franz Kafka

• The Kafka Project:Online texts of Kafka's works.

Margaret Laurence

Garcia Marquez

Toni Morrison

Alice Munro

Evgeny Zamyatin

Drama

Jean Anouilh

Samuel Beckett

Robert Bolt

Dario Fo Biography

Arthur Miller

William Shakespeare

Sophocles

• Sophocles. Antigone "Creon, the king of Thebes, forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule. Antigone, soon to marry Creon's son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother Polyneices."

 

International Literary Links