Dictionaries(printed)

• African-American writers : a dictionary / Shari Dorantes Hatch and Michael R. Strickland
  MN - REF - GENERAL PS153 N5 A3444 2000
• The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English / [edited by] Lorna Sage ; advisory editors, Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter.
  MN - REF - GENERAL PR111 C353 1999
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary terms / [compiled by] Chris Baldick.
  PN41 C67 1990
• A Glossary of Literary Terms / M.H. Abrams. 7th ed.
  PN44.5 A2 1999
• A Dictionary of Literary Symbols / Michael Ferber.
  PN56 S9 F47 1999
• A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory / J.A. Cuddon ; revised by C.E. Preston. 4th ed.
  PN41 C83 1998
• Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms
  MN - O/S - Books
• PN1042 M94 1989

Dictionaries(electronic)

• Glossary of Literary terms - Thomson/Gale
• A Glossary of Literary Terms - VirtualSalt
• Glossary of Literary Theory - Glossary of common terminology used in literary theory
• Glossary of poetic terms -Alan Filreis
• Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices.

 

Encyclopedias(printed)

• Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English / edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly.
  MN - PR9080 A52 E53 1994
• Encyclopedia of contemporary literary theory : approaches, scholars, terms / Irena R. Makaryk, general editor and
  compiler.
  PN81 E43 1993

Encyclopedias(Electronic)

• The Literary Encyclopedia (Free scholarly reference work to world literature, particularly attending to English, American, Commonwealth and New Literatures)

Electronic Databases

• EbscoHost Research Databases
• FirstSearch
• Proquest

Electronic Journals

• Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal (Free)
• 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
• African Literature on the Internet
• Bibliography of Creative Writing in T&T Bibliography originally compiled by Anson Gonzalez Created and updated by Alana Ochoa Trafford
• 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
• 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.
• Emory University's Postcolonial Studies site includes bio-bibliographical info on many Caribbean writers
• English Language Resources from Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
• 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
• Naipaul, V. S.
• Questia: The World's Largest Online Library
• A Reference List of Literature by West Indian Authors, compiled by Patrick Jamieson
• Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature
• Walcott, Derek (The Nobel Prize Internet Archive and Other Internet links)
• (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

• African Novels in the classroom/ edited by Margaret Jean Hay
  PL8010.6 A34 2000
• The Fiction of Nathanael West/ Randall Reid
  PS3545 E8334 Z85 1973
• Rewriting Shakespeare, rewriting ourselves/ Peter Erickson
  PR2971 U6 E75 1992
• The White man's burdens: an anthology of British poetry of the empire/ edited by Chris Brooks and Peter Faulkner.
  PR1195 C55 W47 1996

Audiovisuals

• Caribbean women writers [videorecording] : the first international conference / written and produced
  by Selwyn R. Cudjoe ; Christopher Laird.
• Drama: Producing a Play
  MN - WIC Aidiovisuals Videocassette #365
• Kamau Brathwaite
  MN - WIC - Audiovisuals Videocassette #181
• Poems/ Goodison, Lorna
  Videocassette #10
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  MN - WIC - Audiovisual Videocassette #348

 

Liaison Librarian: Verna George
Email: verna.george@uwimona.edu.jm