David Langston
English/Communications

ENGL 250: Introduction to Literature

Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading, Mary Cassatt, 1876

You will find listed below some web sites with information relevant to the various topics you will be studying in Essentials of Literature.

A Glossary of Literary Terms, University of Victoria Writer's Guide, University of Victoria How to read a poem, Part I How to read a poem, Part II Companion site for the course textbook, : The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature 8th Edition. Resources for writing analytical essays: Handouts on how to write a critical essay . . Purdue Univ. Resources for writing at the University of Texas The Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab Trinity College Writing Center, Hartford, CT Resources for Writers . . Jack Lynch, Rutgers Web Resources on Specific Authors and Topics for Literary Interpretation: Sherman Alexie: Official Sherman Alexie website The Business of Fancydancing Sample poems from The Business of Fancydancing Review of Alexie's poetry Review of L&T Fistfight in Heaven Another review of L&T Fistfight in Heaven Review of Reservation Blues Interview with Alexie . . Atlantic Online Memorial to Crazy Horse "Love, hunger, money" . . High Country News Ralph Ellison Ellison's Use of Dialect..interview with Ralph Ellison, The Writer's Project Test this site Ellison page...American Study Collection in American Resource Center Letters from Ellison to Lowry Ware.. Test this site "Crafting the Beautiful Absurdity' of our 'Americanness'"...a paper by x Bradley analyzing the theme of idenitity in Ellison...Test this site Robert Frost Robert Frost Site . . Academy of American Poets William Faulkner Introduction to Faulkner on the Web Univ. of Miss.....a good beginning site. Commentary on As I Lay Dying Univ. of Miss. Barron's Booknotes on As I Lay Dying Barron's book publishers Bibliography on As I Lay Dying Univ. of Miss. Brief synopsis of As I Lay DyingNYU Readers Commenting on As I Lay Dying. . . a personal page Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes page at the University of Texas....good on jazz and Harlem Renaissance. Hughes Bibliography...from Perspectives on American Literature, Calif. State, Stanislaus James Joyce "Araby" for Readers: hypertext markup Critical Essays on "Araby" Sample Essay on "Araby" John Keats: John Keats . . Academy of American Poets Shelley-Keats Journal Keats Exhibition . . British Library Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor Collection . . Georgia College & State Univ. Links to O'Connor Sites . . Bedford / St. Martin's Books and Writers Bibliography on O'Connor . . Perspectives in American Literature O'Connor Foundation Text of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Franz Kafka Constructing Franz Kafka Links to many Kafka sites The Kafka Project Joseph K's Kafka Page Kafka Page with links John Keats: Shelley-Keats Journal Keats Exhibition . . British Library Wallace Stevens Stevens site at American Academy of Poets Links to Stevens' sites Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens Interpretation: "The Emperor of Ice Cream" William Carlos Williams: Williams site at American Academy of Poets Willams and the art world Links to Williams' poems Discussion forum for Williams poems . . Univ. of Texas To send e-mail to Prof. Langston, please click on the following tag: Send a message to the instructor