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Norton Literature Online
Norton Literature Online provides students with the most robust offering of literature resources on the Web, including an extensive glossary of literary terms, a valuable "Writing about Literature" section, MLA documentation guidelines, links to textbook-specific sites that include student review materials, and much more.
In addition to general tools for reading and writing, the site features a gallery of nearly 400 author portraits, more than 100 maps, timelines, and dozens of recorded readings and musical selections. Norton Literature Online is the portal to the much-praised Norton Topics Online and The Online Archive, sections designed specifically for use with The Norton Anthology of English Literature (see below). Access to Norton Literature Online is free with new copies of the anthology.
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Norton Topics Online
Prepared by the Anthology editors, Norton Topics Online offers twenty-eight literary and cultural topics for study—four for each period—with rich groupings of texts and images. Cross-references in the Anthology draw readers’ attention to relevant online topics for further study. Three twentieth-century topics are entirely new, and other topics have been updated. Review materials include summaries of and multiple-choice quizzes on the seven period introductions.
Norton Topics Online also offers:
- A student-friendly "How to Use This Site" introduction
- Over 350 images
- Over 250 Explorations to generate discussion and research topics
- Annotated hyperlinks
- Cross-references to the Anthology
The Online Archive
The Online Archive offers a wealth of downloadable texts from the Middle Ages through the early Victorian period as well as audio files. An ongoing project, the Online Archive has been newly expanded with all public-domain texts trimmed from The Norton Anthology of English Literature over six editions. As such, it can be used to explore changing interests in the teaching of English literature over four decades.
Reading Chaucer
Designed as a way into the original language of Chaucer's writings, this pamphlet offers students a modern English translation of all Chaucer selections in the Anthology. The translation, by Larry D. Benson (Professor, Harvard University, emeritus), is interlineated with the Middle English text; a brief introduction to reading Chaucer in the original, by Alfred David and James Simpson, is also included. The pamphlet may be packaged without charge with The Norton Anthology of English Literature upon instructor's request.
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