Western State College of Colorado

English

Literature

• Literary Index - an online master index to the library's literary criticism series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism and more.

• Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library) - links to criticism and biographical information on-line for hundreds of authors.

• American Verse Project: University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative - electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.

• Poetry Foundation - This resource from the Poetry Foundation allows you to browse first by poets, poems, audiovisuals, articles, and children's, then by further appropriate subdivisions.
  
  

• Voice of the Shuttle - "a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources."

  • Literature (in English)

  • Literary Theory

Writing

• Online Guides from Unviersity Writing Centers

  • Writer's Handbook (University of Wisconsin)

  • Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Purdue University)

  • Writing@CSU (Colorado State University)

  • Dartmouth Writing Program (Dartmouth College)

• Voice of the Shuttle - "a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources."

• Technology of Writing
  
  
• Visual Thesaurus
  
  
• OneLook Dictionary

Children's Literature

• ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature Scholarship (CSU San Bernardino)

• CCBC: Cooperative Children's Book Center (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - subject bibliographies on topics concerning children's and young adult literature, book reviews, and a "Book of the Week" feature.

• Literature for Children - over 550 digitized children's literature titles, pre-1850 - post-1950

• International Children's Digital Library

Folklore

• The Alan Lomax Collection - "ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist over a period of sixty years."

• American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) - "an introduction to the activities of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture ... news about programs and activities, online presentations of multiformat collections, and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study."

• American Folklore - "This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States."

• Foklore and Mythology Electronic Texts (edited and/or translated by D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh)

Updated March 2007
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