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  Literature Tutorials

Below is a list of the best and most popular literature tutorials currently available on the internet.

  Editor's Choice Tutorials
  • A Celebration of Women Writers : an ambitious and comprehensive project, linking hundreds of author pages and e-texts. 

  • Emory Women Writers Resource Project , designed to provide students with unfamiliar edited texts written by women and to supply essential background and ancillary materials for the writers and their works.

  • Women's Studies Resource page at the University of Maryland.

  • The American Studies Web for everything American.

  • Early American Literature : A very large index of American lit pages, sorted by authors.

  • The Electronic Poetry Center : an impressive comprehensive resource for everything poetry on the net, including sound image & texts.

  • The Internet Poetry Archive is a project dedicated to using the internet to create new ways for educators to present the work of some of the world's most important poets to their students.

  • Teaching American Literature : the folks at Georgetown have established this site as a place for teachers of American Literature to share syllabi and ideas about teaching.

  • The Labyrinth Server for Medieval Studies at Georgetown.

  • The Electric Renaissance , The Hypertext Renaissance , and The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies . Them codpiece-wearing Brits wrote some right good stuff.

  • Early Modern Literary Studies : a refereed journal, articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries EMLS is committed to creating on-line resources and to maintaining links to the most usefuland comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars.

  • Eighteenth Century Resources : compiled by Jack Lynch, pretty comprehensive coverage of the period

  • Modernism index -- a link index containing annotated references to resources on modernist artists, poets, novelists, musicians, and critics -- at Brown.

  • The Victorian Web and The Victorian Women Writers Project both great, extensive, well researched and ever expanding. . . for the repressed governess in all of us.

  • The American Center for Irish Studies . . . because grey rainy days, craggy rocks, herds of sheep, oppressive theocracy and pints of Guiness are the stuff that great literature is made of.

  • The Postcolonial Studies Page at Emory includes several introductory essays establishing the basics of postcolonial theory and studies.

  • Postmodern Culture : it's kooky, it's crazy, it's late capitalism, it's simulation, it's the breakdown of the metanarratives and all that it entails, and we're living smack dab in the middle of it. Yikes! While your thinking po-mo, you may also want to check out CTHEORY , another po-mo journal, focusing on theory, technology, and culture.

  • The Prodigious Prose Project : will be a book length collection of essays on recent encyclopedic American novels written by authors including Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen and Evan Dara. Right now the page just includes an essay by Tom LeClair, who is editing the project, but soon look for full text of the other essays as revisions are completed.

  • The Libyrinth : is a site dedicated to high modern and postmodern masters, including James Joyce, Borges, Pynchon, Eco, and others (see author page section of BiC for individual authors. One of the best collection of author pages on the web.

  • Rhetnet -- the cyberjournal of rhetoric and writing -- Rhet/Comp -- it's not just a noise you make while coughing anymore. Also check out CWRL , The Electronic Journal for Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature.

  • Cultural Studies Center -- a good index of cult studies resources put together by a woman they call Zupko.

  • Native American Literature Online from Syracuse.

  • Voices From the Gap : African American Women Writers. Includes biographical and bibliographical information about the writers as well as images and audio files.

  • OZlit -- Australian Literary Resources on the net.

  • The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Web : a great set of pages developed by George Landow and students at Brown on the intersection of hypertext and critical theory.

  • The Hypertext Fiction Homepage : The end of the book? I don't think so -- but there are some interesting things going on in the hypertext universe, gathered and explained on this well-developed website.

  • Hypertext and Hypermedia , a Select Bibiliography: an extensive on-line bib for hypertext compiled by Scott Stebelman at GWU.

  • Guide to Philosophy on the Web -- a well organized and extensive collection of links to philosophy related sites, Bjorns Guide to Philosophy -- a very useful index, including biographical information, links to e-xtexts, scholarly articles, images and more, and The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

  • Horus History Links -- a large collection of history links at UC Riverside.

  • The Human Languages Page -- an extensive comprehensive resource for the study and translation of human languages.

  • Literature, Arts & Medicine database -- this strange and interesting project is a database of annotations to texts in which medicine and sickness play an important role.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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