Resources for the Study of
Literature
for students at Centenary College of Louisiana
Jefferson Hendricks
Professor of English and Film Studies, Centenary
College of Louisiana
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Reference, General Sources, and Meta-pages | Glossaries of Literary and Humanities Terms | Lit/Culture Mags | Lit Blogs | Booksellers and Publishers
Genres: Poetry -- Fiction -- Drama -- Non-Fiction -- Others |
Periods: Classical --
Medieval -- Renaissance --
Restoration/18th/19th -- Modernism --
Postmodernism -- American Literature |
Authors:
Reference, General Sources, and Meta-pages
Glossaries of Literary and Humanities Terms
- Glossarist
-- webliography of glossaries
- extensive
list of online glossaries, dictionaires, and encyclopedias
-- S. Baum, Texas A&M
- list
of language glossaries and dictionaries
- Glossary
of Poetic Terms -- Robert G. Shubinski
- Glossary
of Poetic Terms -- Ian Lancashire, U. of
Toronto
- Poetic
Terms -- Al Filreis, U. of Pennsylvania
- Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms -- Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.
- Glossary of Literary Theory -- U. of Toronto
- List
of Critical Terms and Definitions -- Malcolm
Hayward,
Indiana
U. of Pennsylvania
- Dictionary
of Literary Terms -- Joel Sommer Littauer
- Glossary of
Literary Terms -- Gale
- Glossary of Literary
Terms -- The
Literary Encyclopedia
- Glossary
of Literary Terms -- Bedford's/St.
Martins
- -- Pearson/Longman
- Literary Vocabulary
-- L. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College
- A
Brief List of Some Key Terms in Literature --
Ismail S.
Talib,
National University of Singapore
- Literary
Terms -- Norton Introduction to Literature
LITWEB site
- Glossary
of Literary Terms -- McGraw-Hill
- In
Other Words:
A Lexicon of the Humanities -- Randy Radney
- A
Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of
Rhetorical Devices -- Robert
Harris
- Literary and Rhetorical Terms: By Category -- U. of Victoria, Canada
- The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms -- University of Cambridge
- Figures
of Speech -- Grant Williams, Nipissing U., Canada
- Silva
Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric -- Gideon
Burton,
Brigham
Young University
- Stanford
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy -- Edward N. Zalta, Stanford U.
- Internet
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy -- James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, U. of Tennessee at Martin
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas -- Philip P. Wiener
- A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names -- Garth Kemerling
- Glossary of Philosophy Terms -- Nicholas Bunnin and E.
P. Tsui-James, The
Blackwell Companion to Philosophy
- Dictionary of Philosophy -- Dagobert D. Runes and others [1942]
- FOLDOP 3.0: Free Online Dictionary of Philosophy -- Gian Paolo Terravecchia
- The Ism Book -- Peter St. Andre
- Dictionary
of Philosophy of Mind -- Chris Eliasmith, U. of Waterloo, Canada
- Dictionary of
Theology
- ArtLex:
Visual
Arts Dictionary -- Michael
Delahunt
- Words of Art -- Robert Belton, U. of British Columbia, Okanagan
- Glossary
of Medieval Art and Architecture -- Jane Vadnal, U. of
Pittsburgh
- Glossary for World Myths and Legends in Art -- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- glossary
of printing terms -- PrintUSA
- glossary for "electronic publishing,
graphic arts, and printing industries" -- Rainwater
Press
- Bookbinding and the Conservation of
Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
-- Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
Literature and Culture Journals and Zines
Literature and Culture Blogs
Booksellers and Publishers:
- AddAll: Book Search and Price Companion
- Amazon
- ABE
- Barnes and Noble
- Blackwells
- Bookfinder
- Hamilton Books
- Powells
- The Strand
Poetry:
Fiction:
Drama:
Non-Fiction:
Other Genres:
Classical World:
Medieval:
Renaissance:
Restoration/18th/19th:
Modernism:
Contemporary/Postmodernism:
American Literature/Culture:
- A Hypertext on American History From the Colonial Period Until Modern Times -- Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- History Matters [US History on the Web] -- American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)
- American Memory -- The Library of Congress
- American Studies Crossroads Project -- American Studies Association and Georgetown U.
- American Studies Hypertexts -- U. of Virginia
- Outline of American Literature -- Kathryn VanSpanckeren, U. of Tampa
- American Literature on the Web -- Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki U., Japan
- American Authors on the Web -- Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U., Japan
- American Literature sites -- Donna M. Campbell, Washington State U.
- PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference
Guide -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus
- Norton Anthology of American Literature Student Website
- Web Resources for
Early American Literature: A Beginning -- Lehigh U.
- Academy of American Poets
- American Verse Project -- U. of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
- Modern American Poetry -- Cary Nelson, U. of Illinois
- Modern and Contemporary American Poetry -- Al Filreis, U. of Pennsylvania
- Electronic Poetry Center -- SUNY, Buffalo
- Poetry [Magazine] Foundation (including the magazine online)
- The American Poetry Review
- online poetry anthologies and books of poems -- Bartleby.com
- The American Novel -- PBS
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Critical Approaches:
Authors: