Literary Resources
First, don't forget to use your library’s subscription databases for periodical articles and literary resources!
BOOK REVIEWS
Book reviews are an evaluation or discussion of a new book, usually published in periodicals or on the Web. Book reviews may appear first in respected trade journals, then in local or popular publications. Book reviews are less in-depth than literary criticisms.
Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
Barnes and Noble
www.bn.com
The New York Times
http://nyt.com/books
Google Web Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism (or Arts>Literature>Reviews and Criticism)
Yahoo!
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Reviews (or Directory > Arts > Humanities > Literature > Reviews)
AcqWeb’s Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/bookrev.html
Oprah’s books
http://www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml
LITERARY CRITICISMS
Literary criticisms are the study or evaluation of a work of literature such as a poem, play, story or novel. Criticisms are usually written by literary scholars and published in scholarly publications.
Google Web Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism (or Arts>Literature>Reviews and Criticism)
IPL Literary Criticisms
www.ipl.org/div/litcrit
Gale Literary Index
www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
Bedford/St. Martin’s LitLinks
www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks
Summaries, synopses, notes of literary works
Antistudy www.antistudy.com
ALLUSIONS
An allusion is an important and commonplace literary device that is an indirect, implicit reference to historical and current events and figures, mythological and Biblical events and figures, to other literary and artistic works and the like. Allusions are often used to summarize broad, complex ideas or emotions with a single, powerful image. Allusions allow the reader to understand a difficult concept by relating it to an already familiar story.
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable www.bartleby.com/81
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia http://concise.britannica.com
Dictionary of Symbolism
www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/index.html
An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm/contents.html
