PVHS English Department
Literature--Literary Criticism/Summaries
Discovering
Collection
Literary Criticism, biographies, and much more on over 3000 authors
can be found in this database. Passwords are required if used from home. See
library staff.
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Novels
for Students Ebooks
Literary Criticism, biographies, plot summaries, character analysis,
historical context and much more! This link will take you to Volumes 17 - 24.Passwords
are required if used from home. See library staff. Print
volumes are available in the library too!
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IPL
Online Literary Criticism
There are 3936 biographical and critical essays on authors
here.
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Western
World Literature: Criticisms and Resources
Primarily covers Dante, Euripides, Virgil, Homer, Cervantes,
Moliere, and Greek and Roman Literature.
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Literature
and Literary Criticisms
Search engine driven to search from pre-determined websites
on authors and criticism.
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Literature Criticism
"The criticism collection includes more than 40,000 full-length or excerpted
essays, spanning more than 25 years of literary criticism."
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A
Glossary of Literary Criticism
Terms
to use in critical analysis of literature.
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Novelguide
Free
source for literary analysis
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Literary Criticism - LibrarySpot.com
Links to over 3,300+ critical and biographical sites.
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PAL: Perspectives in American
Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
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Literary Encyclopedia
Search for information here that will give biographical insight
into the author and a summary of their work and context.
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Eighteenth-Century Studies
Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are
kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as
well), along with modern criticism.
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SparkNotes
Provides summaries and study questions for a wide variety of
authors.
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Pink
Monkey.Com
Find over 320 free literature summaries, study guides, and online
classic texts. Registration is required.
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New
York Times : Books
Detailed reviews of new titles, with interviews of authors and
bestseller lists.
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Literary Resources on the Net
This is a searchable and comprehensive guide to
author information with some critical links.
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LITERARY DEVICES
Find definitions of Literary devices, literary elements,
literary techniques, and literary terms.
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Jane Austen Information
Page
Full-text
of Jane Austen's works, her biography and background information as well as
information on the Regency Period.
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Jane Austen Pride
and Prejudice-Notes on Random Topics
Contains
a chronology, character and place listing and more with many links.
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Recreating Jane
Austen
Analysis
of the book including an interesting discussion of the significance of letters
and correspondence in the novel.
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Capesthorne Hall-Rooms
(Architecture of English Country Home)
See
examples of the rooms and style of a currently utilized English Country Home.
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The Country House--an
essay
Narrative
text outlines the authors experience with country homes in England.
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Jane Austen and
the Evolution of English Country Houses
"This
is a brief description of how the English country house evolved up to the time
of Jane Austen, and some remarks on Jane Austen's most unusual use of a house
in her stories."
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Jane Austen and
the Evolution of English Country Houses
"This
is a brief description of how the English country house evolved up to the time
of Jane Austen, and some remarks on Jane Austen's most unusual use of a house
in her stories."
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here for more]
Internet Classics Archive
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59
different authors mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in
English.
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for more]
American Studies @ the
University of Virginia--Hypertexts
Full-text from authors such as Henry Adams, Emerson, Harriet
Jacobs, Sinclair Lewis, Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many more.
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here for more]
Digital Dante Project
A great site featuring online, multimedia teranslation of Divine
Comedy in the original Italian and Longfellow's translation. Complete with illustrations,
study guides, and information about Dante.
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Classic Short Stories
Short stories by authors such as Poe, Hawthorne, Dylan Thomas
and others.
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Literature--Author
Information
Discovering
Collection
Literary Criticism, biographies, and much more on over 3000 authors
can be found in this database. Passwords are required if used from home. See
library staff.
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here for more]
American Authors on the
Web
Links to links of many author pages.
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here for more]
American
Authors
Links can be found here to a wide number of American Authors.
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here for more]
American
Writers
Brief biographical organized by year presented by C-Span as accompanying
materials to programs aired.
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here for more]
American Literature,
Twentieth-century
This page lists American authors from the twentieth-century.
Links to additional resources and on-line texts are provided for some authors.
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Contemporary American
Literature
"Links
to websites for the time period encompassing the late twentieth century in American
Literature", includiong biographies of authors and information on their
works.
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Great
Writers
Covers webpages and information on hundreds of writers around
the world.
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here for more]
Nobel
e-Museum
Locate biographical information on Nobel Prize winnersin Literature.
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here for more]
King
Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Pictures of knights, historical vs. legendary Arthur, land, structures,
characters, time period map and other features are used to give a picture of
life during the reign of King Arthur.
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here for more]
Poets
and Writers, Inc.
Poets
& Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance
for creative writers. Founded in 1970, it is the nation's largest nonprofit
literary organization. Contests are featured here, funding sources to support
poetry, publication information, forums and more.
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Poets
Daily
Get
a poem a day here, sign up to receive a poem with commentary every day through
email, read articles written about poetry and check out the special features.
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Poetry
Magazine
Featured
poets of the day and of the month offer free poems online. In addition, find
current information on poetry, publications and contests.
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here for more]
Poetry
Express
Learn
to write poetry, publish it, get tips and techniques and read others' works.
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here for more]
Poetry
180
Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students
to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year.
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here for more]
Academy of American
Poets
Find a poet, a specific poem,
listen to poetry being read and find literary links here.
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AmericanPoems
Locate biographies, and full text poetry from American poets.
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Representative
Poetry Online
Biographies, and full text poetry from many famous poets.
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here for more]
Modern
American Poetry Home
Essays, multimedia and comprehensive information about American
poets with analyses of their work.
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here for more]
The
Poetry Archives
More than 3,700 poems searchable by poets.
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here for more]
Atlantic
Unbound: Poetry Pages
The spotlight is on famous modern poets and looks back on writers
from the past. Includes RealAudio recording of poems and a large selection of
poems published by Atlantic.
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here for more]
Behind the Name -Etymology
and history of first names
Find
the meaning of any English, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Indian, Italian
and Irish first names.
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Trace the history of your surname
Get brief information about the origin of your surname.
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more]
Surname Origins Index
Some links to surnames and their origin.
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Surname Origin List
Look up the meaning and origin of your surname.
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for more]
U.S. Surname Distribution List
Find the places where your surname is most common.
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for more]
Behind the Name - The
Etymology and history of surname
The
Etymology and history of English, Dutch, Spanish, Scottish, German, Italian,
Irish, French, Scandinavian, Welsh, and Jewish surnames.
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more]
Baby Name Locator
Find the origin and meaning of first names and also the most
popular baby names by year.
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Baby Center: Baby Names
Find the meaning of first names or type in the meaning and find
a name.
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here for more]
babynames.com
after a visit to this site, the problem won't be finding a name
you like-it will be choosing among your options
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Baby Names: Meanings
of Names
Search
for the meaning of a name, or type in a meaning and find the name that matches.
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Character Naming Resources
Enormous
number of links to name sites similar to those above. Does include many ethnic
naming sites, e.g. African, Arabic, Hungarian, Chinese, Sikh and more.
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Wilton's Word and Phrase
Origins
Locate the reasoning behind words and phrases here.
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here for more]
A+ Research & Writing
Step by step approach to a successful research project.
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here for more]
The Pulitzer Prizes
Locate the winners of this prize through the timeline or the
search feature.
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Children's
Literature Web Guide
Find lists of best books, online children's books, and resources
for parents, lists of web sites related to literature.
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here for more]
SCORE
Language Arts
Find framworks, content standards, with lessons in cyberguides(aligned
with California content standards) and teacher resources.
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101
Things to do with Books
Print
this out and give one to each student to keep or swap to do projects.
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English
Online
English
Online is part of an ongoing English professional development contract between
Unitec in Schools and the New Zealand Ministry of Education
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here for more]
To
Kill a Mockingbird Survival Guide
From Belmont High School in Los
Angles Unified School District.
Of
Mice and Men Survival Guide
From Belmont High School in Los
Angles Unified School District.
Updated 09/24/2008