Literature Sites on the World Wide Web

This collection of literature resources was assembled for participants in the 1997 Ocean Creek Institute on "Literature and Literacy in an Age of Technology" sponsored by the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English. Many of these sites were mentioned by institute participants as being especially valuable. Other sites were mentioned in the packet of readings sent to all participants, which included a chapter from The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts (Fader and Fader: Boston, 1994).

If you want, you can view slides from John Slatin's keynote addresses as well as links mentioned in his presentations at the Ocean Creek Institute. Anyone interested in literary study or the teaching of literature is welcome to use this collection and is encouraged to participate in its development. Please suggest additions to this list by sending an email message to Dawn Rodrigues.

Web Resources for Literature--General

LSU Literature Webliography: Collection of literary resources, divided into the folllowing categories: General Guides, Bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries, Discussions, Periodicals, Style Guides; Texts; and Author Webliography.
On-Line Literary Resources: Collection developed by Jack Lynch from Penn State University. Categories include Classical and Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Victorian, Twentieth Century British and Irish, American, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature and Feminism, Ethnicities and Nationalities, Bibliography and History of the Book, Hypertext, and Miscellaneous.
Voice of the Shuttle Home Page: Excellent collection of Humanities resources, including: classical studies; cultural studies, cyberculture, linguistics, literature (English), literature (Other), literary theory, and many other categories.
The English Server: The English Server has made literary resources available online since 1990. Categories include cultural theory, fiction, libraries, film and television, journals, poetry, reference, bad subjects, feminism, race, and rhetoric. Includes a search engine for the entire site.

English Literature

English Language and Literature: Virginia Tech Library's collection of literature sites on the Internet. Includes the following categories: American Literature, Electronic Journals, English Literature, Genre-Related or Other Specialized Resources, and Sites with Broad Coverage

American Literature and American Studies

American Studies Web: This collection includes literature and literary criticism, as well as Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literature and American Literature, a site developed at UT Austin in 1995 as a class project. It includes student projects-analyses of various literary topics--with links to critical essays and online texts.

Drama Resources

Drama: Part of the English Server collection.

Research Tools for Literature Study

The Library of Congress Research and Reference Center

English Resource

Resources for Research in English, including links to references and search tools and books online.

Search ERIC Database

Links directly to the search screen in the ERIC collection.

IDEAL

A collection of journals that guests can search for without charge.

Samples of Literature Webs with Contextual Links

The Victorian Web: A project developed by George Landow at Brown University.
The Perseus Project: An evolving digital library on ancient Greece and Rome.
The Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies sponsored by Georgetown University.

Film and Media Resources

Film and Television Studies: Part of the English Server Collection at CMU
Media History Project: Home page for information about the history of media.
Teaching Media Literacy Resources: Contains links to sites which have information and resources of value to media educators.
Film Analysis Course: Film course taught by Tracy Cox at the University of Florida.
Film and Video Resources: A searchable guide for "people with academic, popular, and production interests in film."
The Internet Movie Database: Comprehensive source of general movie information on the Web.

Electronic Texts on the Web

Alex Collection of E-Texts
Project Bartleby
The Official and Original Project Gutenberg Home Page
The Electronic Text Center, UVa: On-line archive of encoded electronic texts stored in a library-based Center that specializes in the creation and analysis of
text.

Teaching Literature: Samples of Courses and Course Projects

Literature Course Syllabi: Collection of courses that make "real use of the Web." Jack Lynch, from Penn State University has has collected exemplary courses that include reading lists, course materials, student hypertext research projects and collaborative discussion forums.
Masterpieces of World Literature Course: Includes many excellent samples of student projects.
Arthurian Legends: Course taught by Deborah Everhart at Georgetown University.
Poetic Conversations Home Page: John Slatin's course in Modern Poetry which asked students to reconstruct some of the conversational threads that make up the larger conversation of Poetry. It includes class projects.
Film Analysis Course: Course taught by Tracy Cox at the University of Florida.

MOOs and MUDs

MOOcentral: Jeff Galin's collection of MOO sites, including excellent links to MOO tutorials.
AcademICK! The Interactive Center for Knowledge: A radical and experimental MOO at UT Austin.
Cheshire MOOn's Poetry Room: A new MOO at Ut Austin. If your browser has a telnet connection installed, this link will connect you with Cheshire MOOn. Type Connect guest to explore the MOO.

Hypertext and Hyperfiction

Eastgate: Selected Hypertext Resources on the Web.: Eastgate's collection of hypertext resources and fiction on the Web.
Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction: Collection of hypertext sites developed by Michael Shumate, a fiction writer and an archivist and manuscripts cataloger at Duke University's Special Collections Library .

Participants' Recommendations

Academy One: Virtual School with online projects and a teacher's lounge.
Revolution to Reconstruction and links to others: A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times.
Classroom Connect: A key web site for k-12 teachers. Includes many curricular resources.
Crania: An alternative literary/arts magazine.
George Magazine: Current issue with archives to past issues
Inkspot: Resource for writers, with a special section for young writers.
Jeff Galin's Site.: Jeff Galin's course at the University of California, San Bernardino. Provides information on his course and on MOO discourse.
The Louvre Museum: Important works, floor plan, history, etc.
Shakespeare Web: A collection of Shakespeare resources sponsored by the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, a company of Shakespearean actors.
: Collection of media resources for educators .; Directory of media literacy organizations; media awareness network, media launchpad, etc.
Yahoo Literature Journals: Literary Magazines published by colleges and universities

Bibliography for Literature, Literacy, and Technology

Please submit bibliography categories and entries to Dawn Rodrigues.

Media Education Organizations (items submitted by William Constanzo): Assembly on Media Arts . c/o Ben Fuller, English Department, Bloomburg University, Bloomberg, PA 17815; Note: This is a good place to start within the NCTE. The AMA meets at NCTE conventions, sponsors media-related activities, and distributes Media Matters, a newsletter that includes brief articles, reviews, conference announcements, and materials for classroom practice. Membership: $10; Center for Media Literacy. 4727 Wilshire Blvd, #403, Losa Angeles, CA 90010, tel: 213-931-4177 or 800-226-9494, membership: $35; Led for many years by Elizabeth Thoman, a tireless media education advocate, CML produces a very useful newsletter and some of the best classroom materials available on topics like television violence, the politics of tv news, and media images of women.; Association for Media Literacy. 41 Pinewood Ave,. Toronto, Canada M6C 2V2, internet: rshep@westview.org; Canada has been a world leader in media education since McLuhan. If you want to know what is happening in Canada today, AML is the organization to join. Mediacy, its newsletter, is an informative guide to the latest activities, resources, and hotly-debated ideas.; National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. 346 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, membership: $30; NAMAC is a key nation-wide organization for media arts practitioners, largely artists, teachers, and professionals who produce video and television. In association with the National Alliance of Media Educators (e-mail namac@igc.apc.org), they publish an annual National Education Media Directory ($12 a copy) as well as spear-heading a major consortium of academic and professional organizations devoted to film and television.; Cultural Environment Movement. 3508 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104,; The Cultural Environment Movement was started by George Gerbner of the Annenberg School in Philadelphia. In just a few years, it has gained impressive momentum and clout (150 organizations, 64 countries), drawing world-class journalists, media producers, activists, and teachers into a maelstrom of organized activity aimed at reshaping the world's media environment. Membership starts at $25.

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Last Updated July 11, 1997