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  • Credo Reference Salve only
    Literature dictionaries and encyclopedias.

  • Literary Resources on the Net
    Points to "sites on the Internet dealing with English and American literature, excluding single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to literary critics."

  • Online Literary Criticism Collection
    "Contains 4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, nationality and literary period."

  • Voice of the Shuttle
    An index for the humanities on the Web. VOS organizes resources by academic specialties, primarily literary periods. It includes full-text sites, bibliographies, critics' and theorists' pages, discussion groups, bookstore links and some journals.

Literary Reference Sources (Online Texts):

  • A Dictionary of Literary Symbols Salve only
    This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than universal psychological archetypes, myths, or esoterica. Michael Ferber has assembled nearly two hundred entries clearly explaining and illustrating the literary symbols that we all encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold), along with hundreds of cross-references and quotations.

  • Gale Literary Terms
    A short dictionary of literary terms and genres.

  • Glossary of Literary Theory
    A dictionary of commonly used terminology used in literary analysis such as romanticism, trope, or pathetic fallacy.

  • Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
    This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices such as chiasmus, metonymy, oxymoron, etc.

  • Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction
    "The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time" comprises the 50-volume shelf of non-fiction and 20-volume shelf of fiction. Together they cover major works in literature, philosophy, religion, history and folklore.

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