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Literature Resources
You do not need to use secondary sources or literary criticism for any essay in my class unless I specifically tell you otherwise. In fact, I prefer that you not use outside sources for literary analysis; I would much rather read what you have to say about a text than read your rehashing of someone else's insights, no matter how impressive those rehashed insights are.
That said, I recognize that some of you are going to look for outside information and analysis despite my preferences. Rather than going to SparkNotes (which are shallow, incomplete, and occasionally inaccurate), consider using some of our library's excellent online resources.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (click Infotrac from CCHS Library link)
- A selection of essays and criticism about contemporary (roughly 20th century) authors and their works.
Twayne Authors Series (click Infotrac from CCHS Library link)
- Excellent explanations and analyses of major author's lives, influences, and works. Covers writers from around the world from Beowulf on.
- This site has hundreds of classic literary works in complete online editions, from Aesop's fables to Shakespeare's plays. Best of all, each text is searchable.