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Reference Works
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Journal and Book Index (Subject Specialized)

MLA International Bibliography
         http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?ste=121&q=cuny_broo39667
Indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore included in 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings. Covering 1963 to the present. Available only on the Brooklyn College campus.

Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
         web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Find articles from newspapers around the world and legal information for your term papers.
[Available on campus and through proxy server]

Project MUSE
         muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
Includes complete articles from over 40 journals published by Johns Hopkins University. Strongest coverage is in the humanities, particularly literary criticism. Relevant titles include American Journal of Philology, Callaloo, Configurations, Diacritics, Emily Dickinson Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, ELH (English Literary History), The Henry James Review, The Lion and the Unicorn, Literature and Medicine, Milton Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, MLN, Modernism/Modernity, New Literary History, Philosophy and Literature, Postmodern Culture, Technology and Culture, Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Wide Angle, and The Yale Journal of Criticism. Several search options are available, and you may limit your search to particular journal titles. Available on campus at Brooklyn College.

netLibrary
         www.netlibrary.com/
An electronic library containing hundereds of public domain (out of copyright) books.
[Available on and off campus.]

English as a Second Language

ESL Resources
Internet TESL Journal
Language Learning Lab

Grammar and Composition

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Elements of Style
Online Writing Lab-Purdue University
The Online Writery
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Individual Authors


Blake Digital Text Project
The William Blake Archive
William Blake Online
Raymond Carver
Geoffrey Chaucer
Allen Ginsberg
Work in Progress: A James Joyce Website
Kerouac Speaks
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

Literature


American Writers
The New Chaucer Society
Links to Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century literature
Online Literary Criticism Collection
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Renaissance Conference
Romantic Circles
The Victorian Web Overview
Voice of the Shuttle - University of California at Santa Barbara
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

Literary Theory


A Bibliography of Literary Theory and Criticism
Glossary of Literary Temrs and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
www.theory.org.uk
Yahoo! Critical Theory
Illuminations The Critical Theory Website
LitLinks: Critical Theory
Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
The Eserver: Accessible Online Publishing
Jack Lynch's Literary Resources - Literary Theory
The UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource
Critical Theory: An Introdction to Literary Theory & Criticism
Contemporary Literary Theory
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
Marxists Internet Archive
Philosophy: Your Guide to the Wonderful World of (Post) Modern Thinking
Undergraduate Introduction to Critical Theory
Who's Who in Theory

Poetry


Academy of American Poets
American verse Project ( U of Michigan)
Bartleby.com: Verse
Electronic PoetryCenter at SUNY Buffalo
The Internet Poetry Archive
Modern American Poetry
The Museum of American Poetics
Poet's Corner
Representative Poetry On-Line
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
Poetry Portal

Syllabi


Professor Elsky's Homepage

Reference Works


Bartlett's Quotations
A Dictionary of Slang
Rhyming Dictionary
ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus
Behind the Name: the Etymology and History of First Names

Electronic Texts


Classic Reader
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography

Electronic Journals


Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Arthuriana


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