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For AP Links see links for students

For sites to American, British or world literature, try these sites:

American Literature http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.html

The American Studies Department at Keele University in the United Kingdom has been ranked among the best of the best. It contains e-text of American literature from colonialism through the 20th century. Included in this site are links to " history, politics, geography and popular culture, including film, and is particularly concerned to emphasise ways in which specialist knowledge illuminates more general matters of concern in the social and cultural life of the United States."

Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web) http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/

               Hundreds of links to American author webpages and other American literature links. Huge                portal to other sites and information that can be used by students and teachers.

Literature and Culture of the American 1950s http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

English and its History http://www.bluerider.com/english/

               Portal to English related topics including literature, history of the English language, and English                history.

High School Literature: Mulnomah Public Library http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/hslit.html

 

For study guides to many literature classics try these sites:

FreeBooknotes.com http://www.freebooknotes.com/index.html

Classic Notes http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/

Pink Monkey http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp

SparkNotes http://www.thespark.com/sparknotes/

Study Guides for Various Works http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/guides_index.html

NovelGuide - Novel Resource Guide and Literary Analysis http://www.novelguide.com/

 

For a list of rhetorical and literary terms, try these sites:

Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/

Glossary of Literary Terms http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

 

For literary criticism and analysis, try these:

Critical Reading: A Guide http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html

              This site provides tips on reading critically works of literature. It includes a step-by-step approach                to analyzing poetry , fiction , and prose in fiction , as well as writing an analytical essay.

English Server Fiction: Criticism http://fiction.eserver.org/

                Awesome site for literary criticism. Includes poetry, drama, short stories and more.

Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

Literary History http://www.literaryhistory.com

An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular

Literary Index http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

Lit Links http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/

 

For reading lists, try these:

Pulitzer Prizes http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html

Random House Reading Group Guides http://www.randomhouse.com/reader_resources/browsetitle/index.pperl

Reading Group Choices - http://www.readinggroupchoices.com/