English

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Background Information
• Citation and Style Guides
• Literature Web Resources
• Poetry, Fiction, Drama

• Regional Literature
  Canada | US | England | World
• Writing Guides
• Dictionaries & Thesauri
• Electronic Texts
• Graphic Novels
  

• Literature Resource Center
• MLA Bibliography
• World Shakespeare Bibliography

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• Humanities Index
• JSTOR

Citation Styles

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards
• Other Citation Styles

Important Print Resources

• Twentieth-century literary movements dictionary
  REF PN 597 T94 2000 R
• Dictionary of literary and thematic terms
  REF PN44.5 Q5 1999 S,R,L
• The dictionary of literary symbols
  REF PN 56 S9 F47 1999 S, R, L
• Larousse dictionary of literary characters
  REF PR 19 L37 1994 S,R,L
• Encyclopedia of literature in Canada
  REF PR 8906 E53 2002 S, R, L
• Encyclopedia of folklore and literature
  REF PN 41 E48 1998 S, R, L
• World literature and thought
  CB 5 W67 1997 R
• Canadian writers since 1960
  REF PR 8927 C362 S, R, L
• Contemporary Canadian authors
  REF PR 8953 Z925 S, R, L

Check the Library Catalogue to find additional print resources at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Selected Online Reference Tools

• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
• Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
• Oxford Companion to English Literature
• Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• Dictionary of Shakespeare
• Dictionary of Writers and their Works
• Encyclopedia of British Columbia
• Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference Online

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you

• A Literary Index - an overview and a review of significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, and students
• Internet Public Library: On-line Literary Criticism Collection - links to over two thousand critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works
• Literary Resources on the Net - a comprehensive collection of links to sites dealing with English literature
• Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Main Page - an extensive set of pages organized by period, nation, subculture, and genre
• Literary Listservs and Newsgroups

• Gale's Literary Index - Gale's Literary Index is a master index to every literary series published by Gale Research. We have many of the series here at Kwantlen in the reference section of the Langley, Surrey, and Richmond libraries.
• Great Writers and Poets - links to the home pages of numerous North American and international authors. Also provides links to information on many of the world's major literary prizes

• Canadian Poetry Archive - selected poems from over one-hundred English and French-Canadian poets from the 1800's to the present
• League of Canadian Poets - helpful for finding biographical information about Canadian poets.
• Margaret Atwood Homepage - the official Margaret Atwood web site. Contains biographical information, essays by Margaret Atwood, a complete bibliography of her works, and a list of books about Margaret Atwood and her work.

American Literature

• Perspectives in American Literature - provides outlines and bibliographies of hundreds of authors, themes, and literary movements in the U.S. from colonial days to the present.

• Geoffrey Chaucer - this site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales and provides access to information on Chaucer and the times
• geoffreychaucer.org - an annotated guide to sites that provide information on Chaucer and his works
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - an extensive annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare sources available on the Internet

World Literature

• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literatures in English - information on contemporary literature and authors in countries that were former colonies of Great Britain
• The DNA of Literature - full-text access to interviews with writers that have been published in the Paris Review
• Postcolonial Text - a refereed open access journal that published articles, interviews, book reviews, poetry, and fiction on postcolonial, transnational, and indigenous themes

• English Usage - provides a detailed guide to all aspects of English language usage
• Elements of Style - online version of William Strunk's classic reference book
• Purdue University Writing Labs: Online Resources for Writers - guides for punctuation and sentence construction as well as planning, writing and revising an essay
• University of Victoria Hypertext Writer's Guide - a guide that covers all the basic components of writing. A glossary of literary terms is also included
• Writing Academic Essays - developed for undergraduate students in the English Department at the University of Aberystwyth, this guide provides a comprehensive overview of the essay writing process.
• Writing Argumentative Essays - a step-by-step guide that provides a good introduction to the writing of argumentative essays
• Formulating a Thesis Statement - a guide to choosing and stating the main focus of your essay

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - a searchable version of the 1894 print edition
• Bulfinch's Mythology - a searchable version of Bulfinch's Mythology.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - a searchable version of the 1901 print edition
• Easton's Bible Dictionary - a full-text version of the 1897 print edition
• Oxford English Dictionary - only available to Kwantlen students and faculty
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - a searchable version of the 2000  edition
• Webster's Online Dictionary: Rosetta Edition

Electronic Texts

• Bibliomania - fully searchable, full-text editions of classic works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare - a searchable version of all of William Shakespeare's plays and poems
• Electronic Poetry Center - provides access to a wide variety of electronic resources relating to poetry
• eserver.org - provides access to electronic texts covering various subject areas including contemporary art, race, 18th century literary criticism, internet studies, sexuality, drama, gender studies and current political and social issues.
• Great Literature Online - including works by Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, etc
• Project Gutenberg - the first and largest single collection of free electronic books