English 109 - Cora Agatucci
Survey of Western World Literature: Modern

General Websources for Literary & Cultural Studies
URL of this webpage: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/links.htm

More ENG 109 WWW Links...
Organized by Period-Topic-Author Headings used in current Eng 109 textbook (see ENG109 Syllabus):
Davis, Paul, and others, eds. Western Literature in a World Context.
Vol. 2: The Enlightenment though the Present. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
... Links 2: Late 18th - 19th Centuries
The Enlightenment: Reason & Sensibility
The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Self & Social Reality
... Links 3: The 20th Century
The Modern Age and the Emerging World Culture

General Websources for Literary & Cultural Studies

African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, a wonderful site "Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere."
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

An American Literature Survey Site (Daniel Anderson & his students, Univ. of Texas) http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html
Daniel Anderson's new framed version with this and other sites: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/

Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
"A good place to start searching the digital image holdings of works by a particular artist across a number of museums, plus links to publications, a monthly featured artist, and a master list of museums that have contributed to the project."
http://artcyclopedia.com/

Bibliomania: Classic Fiction (Maytech Publishing Ltd.): online library of E-texts
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/

A Celebration of Women Writers (Mary Mark and John Ockerbloom), recognizing "the contributions of women writ ers throughout history": http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/writers.html

Classic Short Stories (Gary Lindquist): E-texts, bibliographies, dictionary
http://www.bnl.com/shorts/

COCC Library Online Catalog (Central Oregon Community College) - Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, & more: http://libcatalog.cocc.edu/

Useful Biographical and Critical Reference Works in COCC Library's Reference collection:
Contemporary Authors Series (Detroit : Gale Research)
Call Number Range: PN451.C - PN453.C
Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series (Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research):
Call Numbers: PN81 .C65
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research):
Call Numbers: PN771 .C59
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Modernism through Poststructuralism (Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research). Call Numbers: PN94 .C67 1986
Critical Survey of Short Fiction Series, ed. Frank N. Magill (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press)
Call Numbers: PN3321 .C7
Dictionary of Literary Biography Series (Detroit : Gale Research):
Call Number Ranges: PS129 - PS153 - PS228 - PS323 -PS374 - PS490
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Screenwriters
Call Number Range: PN1998
Reference Guide to Short Fiction ed. Noelle Watson (Detroit : St. James Press, 1994).
Call Number: PN3373 .R36 1994
Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, eds. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1942). Call Number: PN771.K86
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Series (Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research):
Call Numbers: PN771 .G27
World Authors, 1950-1970; A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors, ed. John Wakeman (New York, Wilson, 1975). Call Number: PN451 .W3

COCC Library Online Databases (Central Oregon Community College) - Periodical Databases are searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, & more: http://www.cocc.edu/library/databases.html

CVC Electronic Library Primary Works in Western Civilization (Clinch Valley College, Univ. of Virginia):
CVC Electronic Library Primary Works in Western Civilization

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (James Campbell, WESSWEB - Western European Specialists Section, Association of College & Research Libraries):
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

English 104 - Introduction to Literature: Fiction (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/index.htm
ENG 104Authorlinks on Assigned Short Story Writers in Fall 1999 ENG 104 Course Plan
ENG 104AuthorLinks2 on other Short Story Writers included in the ENG 104 Course Textbook:
Ann Charters, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 5th ed. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's,1999.

English 109 - Western World Literature Survey, Late 18th-Late 20th Centuries (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College): http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/index.htm
...offers Study Guides (e.g., on Conrad's Heart of Darkness), Student Seminar discussion questions (e.g., on Literary Realism & Gustave Flaubert's "A Simple Heart," Links, Assignments: Online Handouts, & Student Writing

ENGL 2F55 Modern Fiction (Prof. John Lye, Dept. of English, Brock Univ.)
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/
Prof. Lye offers useful online handouts to support his course, including:

The English Server's Fiction Collection ( ed. Martha Cheng and Geoff Sauer): works of and about fiction
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/fiction/
...courtesy of The English Server (AKA: Eserver, Carnegie Mellon Univ.): Collections in the Arts & Humanities
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/

Genre* Studies: The Short Story (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon CC, Bend, OR): abstracts of periodical articles, bibliography, links to COCC Library Catalog & Periodical Databases:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/genress.htm

A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (Robert Harris, Prof. of English, Southern California College-Costa Mesa, Calif.): definitions, literary quotations, and examples: use the pull down menus at the top of the webpage: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/Harris/rhetform.html

The Great Books (Electronic Literature Foundation - ELF) offers "advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is to provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature available in several languages and/or editions, with forums for communication regarding these works, for all types of readers " (Scott Gettman & Cindi Bartlett, for chaosCafe): http://elf.chaoscafe.com/

The Great Books of Western Civilization (Mercer University)
http://www.ilinks.net/~lnoles/grtbks.html

Hispanic Americans History & Literature for K12 (Internet School Library Media Center, James Madison Univ.): http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hispan.htm

History and Development of Prose Style: A Reader, a "collection of short excerpts from the history of fictional and non-fictional prose (John F. Tinkler, Towson State U., Maryland)
http://www.towson.edu/~tinkler/prose/prose1.html

HUM 256 Links (Kathy Walsh, COCC ) for African-American Literature & Culture course:
http://www.cocc.edu/kwalsh/classes/hum256/links.htm

inforM Reading Room: Fiction (Univ. of Maryland) E-texts indexed by author
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/

Internet Movie Database - IMDb: search for info on film adaptations of the fiction we read (for a list of some of those adaptations, see our Fall 1999 course text, Appendix 6, "Short Stories on Film and Video," pp. 992-994):
http://www.imdb.com/

Internet Public Library - IPL (Univ. of Michigan School of Information-Bell & Howell Information and Learning): http://www.ipl.org/
...Arts & Humanities Reference: http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/hum0000.html
...Literature Reference: http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/hum6000.html
...Authors Reference: http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/hum6100.html
...Online Literary Criticism Collection: "Newly revised with international authors! Contains 2504 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period" - full text articles: http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (Sheila M. Contreras, Univ. of Texas-Austin), including student web projects & perspectives: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~sheilac/chicana.html

An Introduction to Literary Criticism (Michael Terry): http://home1.gte.net/turner24/critcont.htm

Legends (Elizabeth Wiley, Donald G. Keller, and Paul Katherine Marmor) explores the "history, literature, and lore" of legends from King Arthur and Shakespeare's stories, to Zorro, through "Guided access to primary source material and up-to-date scholarship; Personal essays and extended reviews; Historical surveys and thoughtful commentary; Romance, adventure, and panach": http://www.legends.dm.net/

Literary Calendar: An Almanac of Literary Information (P. Timothy Ervin, Yasuda Women's Univ., Hiroshima, Japan) features literary events that occurred on particular days in history; one can click on a particular date to view a chronological list of entries on writers, literary works, literary movements, with links to related sites:
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml

Literary Prizes: Fiction lists:
http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~siler/litlists.html
...Winners of Major American Fiction Prizes and, where available, nominees: http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~siler/litlists/amfict2.html

Literary Resources: Feminism and Women's Literature (Jack Lynch, Rudgers Univ.)
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/women.html

Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers Univ.)
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Rich lists of Literary Resources,organized by topics, including:

Literature, Arts & Medicine Database, 36th Ed., 1999 (New York University), an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art: http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html
...Literature Database: http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/literature.html

Litpage: Resources for Readers, Writers, Students, and Teachers of Literature (Robert C. Evans)
http://members.aol.com/litpage/litpage.html

MOWA: Museum of Web Art: http://www.mowa.org/home.html
"Founded in 1997 by Amy Stone, the Museum of Web Art is dedicated to presenting the art of the Web in its own environment. MOWA is a bright, clean, easily navigated Web exhibition space primarily showing works probably best categorized as graphic design or commercial art. Look at the North Gallery exhibition of buttons, the East Gallery visitor counters, South Gallery wallpaper, or Classic Promos in the West Gallery for illustration. The special exhibit in Linker Hall right now is Gateways, interactive Website opening pages. Exhibitions are accompanied by guides. . . The museum also has a kids wing currently featuring Susan Finley's animated, The Lizzys. At a time when others are lamenting the ephemeral nature of much of what we see on the Web, MOWA is archiving the best it [sic]."[Abstract by "DS," The Scout Report 5.49 (April 16, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin:
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/[DS]

The Multicultural U. S. Fiction Web (Richard Pearce, Eng 256: Multicultural U.S. Fiction since 1950, Wheaton College), including explanations of culture and reading narrative, presents U.S. Fiction by American Indian, African American, Latina/o, Asian, and women writers
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/home.html

National Museum of Women in the Arts: Establishing the Legacy:
From the Renaissance to Modernism, Washington D.C.

Native American Authors (Internet Public Library, University of Michigan School
of Information-Bell & Howell Information and Learning): http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/

Native American Literature (Univ. of Southern Calif. libraries): http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/indian_lit.html

Nobel Foundation (Official Website):
http://www.nobel.se/

Online Literary Criticism Collection (IPL: Internet Public Library): "Newly revised with international authors! Contains 2504 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period" - full text articles. http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

Ozlit (Eds. Peter and Mareya Schmidt) offers "500 pages of Australian Literary information as well as more than 1100 entries in our Fully Searchable Books & Writers Database in which you can search for either Authors, or Book Titles...," with references also for "writers others than Australia," news page, diary of literary events, commentary, and literary e-zine: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/index.html
....See also the extensive WWW Literary Links: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/chapt4.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide, 12th ed. (Paul P. Reuben, Calif. State Univ-Stanislaus, June 1999): a searchable online American literature survey with brief period & author introductions, bibliographies, study questions, links, and useful appendices
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

PBS History: World History: "Explore great moments in world history online, from Bill Moyer's
in-depth look into the timeless stories of the Book of Genesis, to the 1997 reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese rule,"
with related links to PBS History and Culture websites:
http://www.pbs.org/history/world.html

PBS Online: Arts programming & related websites on art, drama, film, literature, photography, & more:
http://www.pbs.org/arts/
...plus features like a bibliography of Arts Print Resources
http://www.pbs.org/arts/resources.html
..."Great Composers" - OPB, Wednesdays, April 14-28, 1999 (9-11:00 pm)
This new six-part series of biographical music documentaries profiles Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, and features performances by many of today's most distinguished artists. (CC, Stereo)

Project Gutenberg (originator: Michael Hart, Univ. of Illinois) has, since 1971, put more than 10,000 titles in the public domain into electronic format (E-texts), searchable by author, title, language, and subject.
http://www.promo.net/pg/

Public Domain HTI Modern English Collection (HTI - Humanities Text Initiative, Univ. of Michigan)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/bibl.html

Resources for Studying and Writing about the American Short Story (ENLT 213: Major American Authors
The American Short Story, Ms. Lisa Spiro, Univ. of Virginia):
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~lms4w/enltres.htm

SAC LitWeb - San Antonio College LitWeb (Roger Blackwell Bailey, Dept. of English, San Antonio College):
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/litindex.htm
Outlines, chronologies, links, on topics such as:

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online (Karen Strom)
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/

Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers - Writing for the World Wide Web
Humanities 299, Spring 2000 (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College)
Hum 299 Course Resources include:
...COCC Links: Online COCC Resources for Student Writers & Researchers
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/resources/cocclk.html
...Content Resources for Hum 299 Web Research
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/resources/links4.html
...Sample (Mostly) Student Websites
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/resources/links3.html

Student Writing (collected from past literature, humanities, writing, and women's studies courses taught by Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College - webpublished with student permission):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/studwrtg.htm

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research (Alan Liu, Univ. of Calif.-Santa Barbara)
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/ includes these subcategories:

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Univ. of Minnesota), "an instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color." Meet the Writers by Name, Birthplace, Racial/Ethnic Background, or Significant Dates--biographies, photos, bibliographies, essays, & links: http://voices.cla.umn.edu

What Is Culture?, A Baseline Definition of Culture, & Pithy Quotations on Culture
from The Learning Commons (Eric Miraglia, Dr. Richard Law, Peg Collins, Washington State Univ.)

World Cultures Glossary, from World Cultures, An Internet Classroom & Anthology
(Richard Hooker, Washington State Univ. ©1993, Updated 2-16-98)
....Reading About the World, Vol. 2 Table of Contents (Eds. Paul Brians and others, American Heritage Custom Books)

Writing and Resistance Authors (Jody F. Kerr, 1999) index to pages on selected African-American writers
http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/authors.html
from Writing and Resistance Homepage, a site originally created for ENG354: "Writing and Resistance: African American Literature and Thought" http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/index.html

On-Line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics (Dr. Janice Siegel, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University):
 http://www.drjclassics.com/
Instructional resources for learning classics, including websites, CD-ROMs, audio CDs, films, slides, lectures on video, maps, posters, and transparencies.  Note: few of the items listed are free.  
"Classics" is broadly defined to include "the study of Roman and Greek history, philosophy, religion, mythology, culture, art, archaeology, language and literature in the original Latin or Greek as well as in translation, and its reception, influence and study in ages subsequent to antiquity.")

From Bartleby.com . . . 
The Oxford Shakespeare, "the most authoritative Shakespeare freely available on the Internet," is
an electronic version of the 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, containing 37 plays and 154 sonnets, browsable by scene, sonnet, or keyword": http://www.bartleby.com/70/index.html
Bartleby Shakespeare Collection offers some 1,500 Shakespeare quotations selected by John Bartlett, anthologized verse, and essays like T.S. Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems":
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, by E. Cobham Brewer, 1898, is  a collection of more than 18,000 entries "that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell'"--browsable alphabetically or searchable by keyword:  http://www.bartleby.com/81/

Oxford University Press (OUP) Reading Room
http://www.oup.co.uk/readingroom/ 
This site of the leading academic publisher not only sells its books, but offers a useful resource for university instructors, scholars, and students.  Thirteen reading rooms (including Anthropology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics) offer sample chapters (in .pdf format), tables of contents, and other information on OUP's latest offerings in that field.  Topics in the Literature reading room include Shakespeare, Romantic Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and Criticism and Theory. and Criticism and Theory.

CIA World Factbook 2000 (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ 
One of the finest online resources on country information, this annual reference book offers maps, flags, and information on geography, population, government, economic, communication, literacy rates, transportation, military for more than 260 countries, as well as transnational issues.  Browsable  by field and topic.

Music Heritage Network's Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html 
Graduate students at the University of Michigan have created this useful musical
instrument encyclopedia for those who can't remember what exactly a mbira is or from
what country it came. You'll find easy to understand definitions detailing what the
instrument is, where it originated and how it is used. 

Exploring Ancient World Cultures
http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm 
Created by University of Evansville (Indiana), Exploring Ancient World Cultures
(EAWC) is an online course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient
and medieval worlds. It features its own essays and primary texts. It includes
chapter-length histories for each of the eight "cultures" represented: The Near East,
India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe. In addition to
its own resources, EAWC also includes a substantial index of Internet sites. 

World Safari
http://www.supersurf.com/ 
Thirteen year old Brian Giacoppo takes visitors on virtual trips to Japan, Italy,
Kenya, Jamaica, and Greenland. Each safari includes population demographics, a
historical narrative, and links to related Web games and informational sites.

The Encylopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/ 
This encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend ontains over 5100 definitions of
gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from
all over the world. You will also find a nice assortment of images and helpful genealogy
tables. 

Grimms' Fairy Tales
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/ 
Step into the world of the Brothers Grimm, but beware of the dangers that lurk in the
woods! The tales the brothers collected in Germany were often frightening and cruel.
This National Geographic feature brings you 14 tales based on a 1914 translation. Click
on the treasure box to find information about the Grimm brothers, a map, an activity for
kids, and the list of stories, some with audio. 

ENGLISH 109: Western World Literature - Late 18th to Late 20th Centuries
Syllabus - Home Page: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/index.htm
ENG 109 Course Site Map:
Writing about (& Reading) Literature http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/links.htm

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