Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature

Roxanne M. Kent-Drury is an Associate Professor in the Literature and Language Department at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches courses in early world literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic and British literature, and the literature of early exploration and travel. She is also a frequent reviewer for Addison-Wesley-Longman, most recently on its cultural studies-based anthologies of British and world literature. Her publications include articles on exploration and travel, eighteenth-century drama and performance, and professional writing. Most recently, she co-authored a book essay with Gordon Sayre, Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality, for the Modern Language Association's Teaching Robinson Crusoe, forthcoming in March 2005.

"[K]ent-Drury offers a long-awaited and much-needed tool for teachers and instructors of high school and college world literature. The text is a resource for those educators who have received one too many papers based on poor information gleaned from Internet resources....[a]n excellent primary reference text. Kent-Drury's volume is the latest of the Libraries Unlimited series that offers creative assistance for high school and college teachers in the area of Critical Thinking. Although the text is most readily a resource, it would be an excellent complimentary tool for a pedagogical course for instructors." - Kentucky Philological Review

• Acknowledgments1 IntroductionPurposeIntended AudienceDefining Primary SourcesDefining Critical ThinkingSite Selection CriteriaOrganizationLegend2 Locating and Evaluating Internet ResourcesInformation Literacy EducationEvaluating Online ResourcesChoosing a Search Engine3 Tools of Literary AnalysisLiterary GuidesGenre TheoryLiterary Theory4 Major Resources of General Interdisciplinary InterestPortalsE-Text SitesReference SitesMapsProjectsTeaching ResourcesLinguisticsArtPhilosophyHeroic Literature5 Religion and FolkloreIntroductionReligion Sites of General InterestPre-Christian Religions by RegionClassical Greek and Roman MythologyPre-Christian Norse and Germanic ReligionContemporary Religions and Their Historical RootsJudaismChristianityIslam and the Islamic WorldAsian Religions and Belief SystemsHinduismFolkloreFolktales from Around the WorldFables6 The Ancient WorldKey Sites of General InterestTechnology and Iconography of WritingPapyrologyKey Authors, Genres, and Texts7 Classical Greek and Roman LiteratureClassics Sites of General InterestEpigraphyMappingClassical People and PlacesArt and ArchitectureGreek TheaterAuthor-Specific SitesHomerPlatoVergilHoraceOvid8 Europe: Before PrintMega-SitesSaga and EpicManuscripts and Visual ArtCultural BackgroundsThe Age of ChivalrySpecific Authors9 Early Modern to Contemporary Europe10 Non-European World LiteraturesTransnational/Intercultural ProjectsSites of Regional InterestAfricaAsiaLatin AmericaNear (Middle) EastSouth AsiaIndexSite Index