Language Arts

What you will find here: Literature Resources/Literary Criticism, Specific Authors & Titles, Citing Sources, Writing/Grammar Guides, Electronic Texts, Censorship/Banned Books, Poetry, Philosophy, Etymology, Shakespeare, Mythology, Fairy Tales/Folktales/Legends, Middle Ages, Old English, Victorian Age, Speech/Debate/Journalism,Dictionaries

Literature Resources/Literary Criticism Note - For playwrights, see also Fine Arts, Drama African Amer Women Writers (19th century) A.K.A.- author pseudonyms, aliases, maiden names American Authors American Poets Author/Illustrator Links - YA and children's authors & illustrators Author Webliography Authors' Calendar - biographical information, commentary, quotations; listed alphabetically and by birthdate Authors and Bookmaking - links to author information, the art of making books Authors on the Web Celebration of Women Writers Children's Literature Web Guide Classic Notes - literature summaries, analyses & character information Critical Reading - defines & describes critical analysis; instuction on writing an analytical essay Fantastic Fiction - novels, series lists, short stories, links to web pages FreeBookNotes - plot summaries, character & theme analysis, author notes Google Directory - book reviews & criticism Heath Amer. Lit Online Resources - etexts, reference links arranged chronologically IATH - humanities research Literary Criticism Collection (IPL) Literary Locales LitLinks - criticism: fiction, drama, poetry, essays, critical theory The Nobel Prize - Chemistry, Literature, Medicine and Peace. NovelGuide - classic & contemporary literature: chapter summaries, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, author biographies, quotes Perspectives in American Literature Pilot-Search - search engine for "literary" searches Pink Monkey - literature summaries, literature study guides Romantic Circles - Byron, Keats, Shelley Voice of the Shuttle - humanities gateway Writers Write - information about books, publishing, links to job information	Citing Sources MLA Citation Examples (U. of Wisconsin-Madison) Note - For more style and citation guides, see Reference/Citing Sources.
	Writing Guides/Grammar Guides A+ Research & Writing Guide Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation Elements of Style - conventions of English English Exercises Online Grammar Bytes How to Write a Term Paper (Gale) Online English Grammar Plagiarism: What it is & How to Avoid It (Indiana U.) Visual Thesaurus Writers' Workshop (U. of Iowa)
	Electronic Texts (classics, Ebooks) Alex Catalogue of E-texts - various formats of American & English literature, western philosophy Classics Archives English Online Resources - electronic texts (U. VA) E-Book Library - downloads for MS Readers and Palm devices (U. VA) EServer - U. of Washington's extensive humanities database of electronic texts Gilded Age eTexts - American authors widely read during the Gilded Age (about 1866-1901) On-Line Books Page - digitized books by author, title, subject, keyword and LC Project Bartleby - reference, verse, fiction, nonfiction Project Gutenberg Short Stories - classics, new stories with summaries, biographies & analysis Unbound Bible - 10 English versions, Greek & Hebrew versions, other languages, links to dictionaries & commentary World eBook Library
	Censorship/Banned Books Banned Books and Censorship (Loyola U) Banned Books Online Banned Books Week (ALA) Bonfire of Liberties Censorship Pages

Specific Authors/Titles Bible web sites - Yale University Cervantes -Don Quixote translations and illustrations Dickens Project Harry Potter Lord of the Flies Poe, Edgar Allan To Kill a Mockingbird Tolkien/Ency. of Arda - articles about races, places, animals, plants, songs; maps, illustrations, Chronicle of Arda ("the World and all that is in it"), dictionary of old and rare words, calendars, and related links. Tolkien Network Tolkien: One Ring To Kill a Mockingbird - biography, interviews, map-making To Kill a Mockingbird - CA SCORE Cyberguide Twain, Mark Whitman, Walt	Poetry American Verse Project British Poetry (1780-1910) Cowboy Poets on the Internet Edward Lear Page Electronic Poetry - contemporary experimental poetry Modern American Poetry Poems, Poetry, Poets Poetry 180 - Billy Collins, Poet Laureate Poetry and American Memory - article from Atlantic Monthly Poetry Archives Poetry.Com Poets.org - Academy of American Poets. This site features biographies of 450 American poets as well as more than 1400 of their poems. Includes resources to celebrate National Poetry Month. Poetry Daily Poetry Magic Poetry Society of America
Philosophy Episteme Links - philosophy Ethics Updates Internet Ency. of Philosophy Minerva Dictionary of Concepts Noesis - philosophy search engine Philosophers' Magazine Stanford Ency of Philosophy Timelines of Western Philosophy see also "Human Rights" on the Global Studies page	Etymology Beastly Garden of Wordly Delights - collective nouns, animal sounds & adjectives Lexical FreeNet - relationships between words, concepts, and people Links for Logophiles Tongue Twisters Wilton's Etymology Page Word Central World Wide Words
Shakespeare Book of Common Knowledge Chill with Will - Thinkquest Elizabethan Costumes Elizabethan England Elizabethan Heraldry Folger Shakespeare Library King Lear Luminarium Macbeth: An in-depth Analysis Richard III SCA Music and Dance Homepage Shakespeare and the Globe (Britannica) Shakespeare Illustrated - 19th-century paintings, criticism & productions Shakespeare Mystery - authorship debate Shakespeare Online - complete works, glossary, plot summaries, essays, quizzes, biography, quotes, links Shakespeare Web Shakespearean Insults Shakespeare's Stratford Touchstone - British Library William Shakespeare	Mythology Aesop's Fables Afro-American Myths and Fables Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Links Ancient World Web Babylonian Mythology Beazley Archive Dictionary - illustrated descriptions Beowulf Resources Bulfinch's Mythology Circle of Muses Encyclopedia Mythica Fables Online Hero's Journey- interactive exploratioon, based on the work of Joseph Campbell King James Bible MythWeb Mything Links - mythology, fairy tales % folklore Mythology - (Windows to the Universe) Mythology Project Windows to the Universe - connections between astronomy & mythology
Fairy Tales/Folktales/Legends Aaron Shepard's Storybook - folktales, tall tales, legends American Folklore - folktales, weather folklore, Native American myths/legends, tall tales, ghost stories. Indexed by state, character, ethnic group, region, historical period Arabian Nights Cinderella Project Cornish Folklore Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts - art & essays Exploration of Modern Monsters Fairy Tales for the Erudite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales & Stories Indiginous Peoples' Literature Jack/Beanstalk, Jack/Giant Killer Project Legends - English literature & folklore Little Red Riding Hood Project Mother Goose Pages - words to Mother Goose rhymes Mything Links - mythology, fairy tales & folklore Native American Lore Stories of the Dreaming - Australian stories SurLaLune - fairy tale portal King Arthur (500a.d.?) Arthurian Timeline King Arthur & British Kingdoms Robin Hood (1100a.d.?) Robin Hood Project	Middle Ages (700a.d.-1500a.d.) American College of Heraldry Castles of Wales Castles on the Web Catholic Encyclopedia Chaucer Web Dante's Inferno Digital Dante Heraldry on the Internet Glossary of Heraldry Terms Knight Life Labyrinth (Medieval Studies) Luminarium Medieval Britain Medieval English Ballads Medieval Sourcebook NetSERF: Medieval Resources ORB--Medieval Studies Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) World of Dante
Old English (450a.d-1100a.d.) Beowulf Resources British Monarchy Da Englis Gesipas - Anglo Saxon culture, language, runic alphabets Geoffrey Chaucer Old English Pages Sir Gawain/The Green Knight Old Norse/Germanic Runes Icelandic Alpahbet Runes (NOVA) Runes (Skeptic's Dictionary)	Victorian Age (1840-1900) 19th Century Britain Charles Dickens' Page Daily Dose of Dickens Dickens House Museum Dickens Project Godey's Lady's Book Victorian Manners, Culture and Dress Victorian Web Victorian Web Sites - Matsuoka Women's Work in the 19th Century
Speech/Debate/Journalism Almanac of Policy Issues - links and background information on major U.S. public policy issues Critical Thinking Debate Central DebateLab - current debate topic DOUGLASS High School Debate Archive High School Debate Topics Online (U Kansas) HighWired - online student newspapers Newseum - art & history of journalism SpinSanity - analysis and documentation of bias and manipulative spin in articles and speeches Story Arts - storytelling plots Virtual Presentation Assistant	Dictionaries Your Dictionary.Com One Look - One Look has added a translation feature, so that one can enter a work, click on "find translations" and then select a language. This feature is expandable, so that if you feel the need you may translate a word from any one language to any other language. They claim to include more than one-half million words from nearly 1,000 dictionaries. The wildcard feature makes this a natural for cross-word puzzle fans. It has a nice, clean look and is very easy to use.

Middle Ages (700a.d.-1500a.d.)

Old English (450a.d-1100a.d.)

Speech/Debate/Journalism