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Literary Criticism


Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study

Encyclopedia Mythica
An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legends

Great Books Index
A list of authors and works of online editions of Great Books of the Western World.

Internet Public Library:Literary Criticism
Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Literary Resources on the Net
English and American literature

Luminarium
Links to Medieval, Renaissance and Early 17th Century Literature.

Online Literary Criticism Collection
Provides criticism of American and British works plus authors' biographical information, via the Internet Public Library.

Philosophy & Literature
An independent weblog that assembles articles and opinion from around the world

Project CROW: American Literature Survey
A directory of American Literary web resources.

The Great Ideas from The Great Books: Index
Illustrates how to use The Syntopicon, the index of topics from the Great Books of the Western.

The New York Review of Books
Includes a complete searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to the present. The site currently contains the full text of several hundred articles from the Review, both recent and from years past.

William Shakespeare
The complete works of William Shakespeare.

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