English 271 Class Library
Note: course readings are also located in Blackboard and/or are linked on our online schedule.
Leaving Kansas: A Word to My Students
Peer Critique Form for Major Essay
HOW TO CREATE AN OUTLINE: RESOURCES AND REVIEW
Bedford-St. Martin's Lit Tutorials (Elements of Poetry)
Bedford-St.Martin's Lit Tutorials (Elements of Fiction)
Tim O'Brien, "How to Tell a True War Story"
Flannery O'Connor, "Everything that Rises Must Converge"
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birthmark"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Browne"
Group Worksheet Questions for Culturalist Reading of O'Connor Story
Supplemental Overview of Feminist Criticism
Literature and Theory Resources
Voice of the Shuttle: Website for Humanities Research: Literary Theory Links (Outstanding; scroll down to "Contemporary")
Literature Resource Center (A Gale resource site through the NDSU library; excellent. Includes:
Contemporary Authors Online
Biographies on more than 110,000 authors since 1900Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Online
Nearly 600 biographies and more than 5,600 critical articles on 600 authorsDictionary of Literary Biography Online
Nearly 10,000 biocritical essays on 7,000 authorsAdditional Data
- Focus on more than 2,500 most-studied authors
- 285,000 full-text articles from more than 260 literary journals
- Full text of Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
- 4,000 synopses for the most-studied titles
- More than 5,000 author-related Web sites
- Literary research guide
Glossary of Literary Terms (free, through GaleNet)
Timeline of Major Critical Theories in U.S.
The Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism (Possible links for researching critical essays about our readings)
WSU Popular Culture Site
(many outstanding links for pop culture and culturalist web materials)Jack Lynch's List of Lit. Crit. Links, Rutgars
Paper-Writing Resources (Grammar, Style, Manuscript Formatting, Documentation)
"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place" (Isaac Babel, qtd. by Carver, "In Writing").
Bedford St. Martin's Research and Documentation Online (click on "Humanities," and then select from the drop-down box what you'd like to read, such as "MLA Manuscript Format" or "MLA In-Text Citation." Explore around--everything you need to know about finding and documenting sources is here, as well as paper conventions.)
Peer Critique Form for Critical Essay Drafts
Guide to Grammar and Writing Online
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing