Links

LITERATURE, ENGLISH MATTERS, JOBS, BOOKS, AND WRITING

 

http://theenglishwench.blogspot.com/
my site for teaching referrals

http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Howto/decon.htm
How to do a deconstruction — useful and often humorous — great site

http://www.malaspina.org/home.htm
Great Books Project, but much more — scroll for lectures and Powerpoints on classics, word a day, day in history, hangman!

http://www.etext.org/Zines/
directory of e-zines, online and free magazines

http://chordata.info/-/1/#
RSS feeds for Arts and Humanities

http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/post-mod-attrib.html
more on postmodernism

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/gobmarket.html
Text and illustrations — The Goblin Market, Rossetti — from The Victorian Web, great site for Victorianna

http://www.skidmore.edu/~mmarx/IllustratedBook/syllabus_menu.html
Victorian illustrated books — Dickens, Carroll, more

http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0256.html
single essay, but an easy overview of the postmodern novel

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
Romanticism — good overiew

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/06sm.htm
from the Metropolitan Museum a great art and art history site with a timeline and examples

http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/diagrams.htm
Remember sentence diagramming? Have fun reviewing here.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx
useful and cute site for grammar and more

  http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~egk10/notes/postmodernism.htm
interesting essays on modernism and postmodernism

 http://radio.xmlstoragesystem.com/rcsPublic/rssHotlist
top 100 most subscribed-to RSS feeds

http://www.lakesideschool.org/upperschool/departments/english/ErikChristensen/WRITING%20STRATEGIES/LiteraryStyles.htm
guide for discussing literary style

 http://cooltext.com/cool text (many styles) and a fun logo generator

http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/

dictionary of symbolism with examples

 http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/
Gothic and mystery writing up to the early 1900’s, reading schedule and more 

 http://manybooks.net/statistics.php?n=20free, public domain ebooks  – read online or download in several formats

 http://www.sonnets.org/index.htmeverything about the humble sonnet

http://www.newyorker.com/

my favorite magazine

 http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htmmore literary terms with clear definitions and examples — also concepts

 http://apokalupto.wordpress.com/church blog

 http://metaxucafe.com/
literary/arts blogs only

http://www.cafepress.com/theenglishwench
my current t-shirt designs

http://luminarium.org/
beautiful site for English lit. to the 17th century

http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Voice of the Shuttle — well-respoected site for scholarly research and lighter stuff, too

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
my favorite Shakespeare site

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
the best poetry site — mainly literary

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/eval.htm
Georgetown’s guide to determining a site’s reliability

http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=269
good graphics site, some instruction plus gallery and downloads