Useful Literature Sites

For electronic texts of literature see also Electronic Texts: Literature, Electronic Texts: Poetry, and Electronic Texts: Drama

Academy of American Poets - http://www.poets.org/

• Description: Information on modern American poetry.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Feb. 1998, p. ]

• Description: Electronic version of a multivolume encyclopedia, with coverage to the early 20th century.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• Reviewed by: [Staff, 2/2206]

Gale Literary Index Home Page - http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

• Description: An index to authors and titles covered in literary reference books published by the Gale Company. This is only an index; to read the articles you must look for the book in Chemeketa's library or another library. Chemeketa has the following books covered by this index: Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook; Short Story Criticism; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism; World Literature Criticism. Please note that Chemeketa's library also has reference books published by other companies, which are not covered by this index. The books represented in this index, however, are some of the most important and most comprehensive works on literature.
• Appropriate to course or program: ENG104; other literature and drama courses.
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Main Page - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

• Description: Selected critical and biographical websites about authors and their works; can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period. The site also contains a list of other literary criticism sites and a guide to finding criticism on the Internet.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

Pulitzer Prizes - http://www.pulitzer.org/

• Description: Includes complete list of winners by category for any year since 1917. More detail for winners in the last 3 years.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Mar. 1998, p. 1164]

• Description: Covers American and Canadian female authors of color, with biographical information, criticism, bibliographies, and links. Searchable. Maintained by the American Studies Department and English Department at the University of Minnesota.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• Reviewed by:[Staff, 2/2006]

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