The Nutley High School English curriculum for juniors and seniors has a literature focus. The required "junior and senior themes" are literary papers required of students for graduation. Below are links to sites on the Internet presented here to help students prepare this major project.
Internet Public Library
Literary Criticism Collection
Leave it to librarians to search and catalog
2473 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
The site can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary
period. This library stuff can be a lot of fun.
A
Literary Index by Chris Flack
Thanks to professor Flack at Vanderbilt University
this site will give you access to literature indexes, electronic texts,
links to other literature resources on the net and a tutorial on how to
write a paper. There are excellent resources for teachers in
TheTeaching
of Literature section.
Literary Resources
on the Net by Jack Lynch
Jack Lynch is an assistant professor in the English
department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University here in New Jersey.
His specialty is English literature of the eighteenth century. His
site delivers links to English and American literature criticism on the
Internet.
The New York
Review of Books
Search the "archives" section of this book review
newspaper to find your book. These are "heavy duty" reviews full
of good quotes and astute insights.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature, A Research and Reference Guide
Every junior needs a pal like this one to help
with that American author theme. In this case, your pal is Dr. Paul
P. Reuben, professor and library coordinator in the department of English
at California State University Stanislaus. He has done a fine job
of finding great sources for you.
Pilot-Search: A Literary
Search Engine
Wow! A search engine that specializes in
finding literary criticism. You have to see this to believe it.
Random
House Reading Group Guides
Let me share a trade secret here. Random
House, a major publisher, creates reading guides to help librarians and
other leaders of book discussion groups plan their discussion programs.
The guides walk you through the books and provide commentary and author
information along the way. Have a look for yourself.
Reading Group Choices
This annual publication is now online.
If there is a book discussion guide available for your book, you will find
it here. Why use a discussion guide? It explains the story
and the devices used by your author to achieve it.
Teaching
the American Literatures
A great source for teachers, this site at Georgetown
University can explain itself. "The Electronic Archives contain
essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple
literatures of the United States. The Archives are designed as a
complementary resource to the electronic discussion list, T-AMLIT.
The Electronic Archives are created and maintained by the Center for Electronic
Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University's
American Studies Program. The Archives are sponsored by Georgetown
University and the D.
C. Heath Publishing Company."
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