Dictionaries(electronic)
Encyclopedias(printed)
Encyclopedias(Electronic)
- The Literary Encyclopedia
(Free scholarly reference work to world literature, particularly
attending to English, American, Commonwealth and New Literatures)
Electronic Databases
- Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal (Free)
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Callaloo
the premier African and African-American literary
journal (Free sample issues and contents only)
- The Caribbean
Writer (Incl. poetry, short fiction, personal essays,
plays, translations, book reviews and interviews)
- Journal of Caribbean
Literatures
Internet resources
- Academic
Info: English Literature Gateway - Directory of
Online Resources Sections include: digital publications, Medieval
Literature, Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Drama, Poetry,
Romantics, Victorian Period, Modern Literature, Poetry, American
Literature, Canadian Literature.
- Academic
Info : Humanities Gateway
- African
American Women writers of the 19th Century/
New York Public Library Collections: Digital Schomburg
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- Bibliomania:
Free E-Books and Literature Study Guides. * More than 2000 Classic
Texts * Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries
and Reference Books *Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories
and Contemporary
articles and Interviews
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Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
this ambitious project brings together print and Internet
resources on postcolonial literatures including the literatures
of Africa and the Caribbean. George Landow of Brown University
has also provided useful background information and bibliographies
on postcolonial theory, as well as information on the politics,
religions and history of the regions.
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- Literary
Resources on the Net - "This set of pages
is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially
with English and American literature, excluding most single
electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information
useful to academics... Pages are maintained by Jack Lynch."
- Literature
@ Sunsite fromBerkeley Digital Library
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- Questia:
The World's Largest Online Library
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Walcott, Derek (The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
and Other Internet links)
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(Mr) William Shakespeare and the Internet a complete
annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available
on Internet...To present new Shakespeare material unavailable
elsewhere on the Internet.
Academic Departments/Institutions/Associations
etc
- Association
for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) -
"The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
was founded in 1973 with the purpose of supporting the application
of computing in the study of language and literature. As the
range of available and relevant computing techniques in the
humanities has increased, the interests of the Association's
members have necessarily broadened, to encompass not only text
analysis and language corpora, but also image processing and
electronic editions. The ALLC's membership is international,
is drawn from across the humanities disciplines, and includes
students and established scholars alike. "
- Canadian Authors
Association (CAA) - "The Canadian Authors
Association is Canada's national writing organization. Founded
in 1921, the CAA has played a key role in the support and development
of the Canadian writing community."
- The League of Canadian
Poets - "The League of Canadian Poets, a non-profit
arts service organization, is the national association of professional
publishing and performing poets in Canada. Its purpose is to
enhance the status of poets and nurture a professional poetic
community to facilitate the teaching of Canadian poetry at all
levels of education and to develop the audience for poetry by
encouraging publication, performance and recognition of Canadian
poetry nationally and internationally
- University
of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Department of Language, Linguistics
and Literature
- University
of the West Indies, Mona. Literatures In English
New arrivals/acquisitions
Audiovisuals
Liaison Librarian: Verna George
Email: verna.george@uwimona.edu.jm |