Humanities: Literature, Music, Religion and Visual Arts
The following is a collection of selected resources related to the subject of Humanities: Literature, Music, Religion, and Visual Arts. Please contact an OCLS Librarian if you need help locating additional resources.
Reference
Adherents.com: a collection of statistics and religious geography citations.
Artlex-Visual Arts Dictionary: Definitions of art terms and links to illustrations and web sites.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, and drama to history, theology and political writing.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
[electronic resource]
: a variety of excerpts from critical essays written about the author and their works.
Grove Music Online: comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition
Books/eBooks
Art
Literature
Modern American literature [electronic resource]
Reference guide to world literature [electronic resource]
Music
Religion
Research Databases
America: History & Life
Art Abstracts
ATLA Religion
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Humanities Abstracts
Modern Language Association (MLA) - International Bibliography
Music Index Online
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Organizations
American Academy of Religion
American Federation of Arts
American Historical Association
ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Humanities Alliance
Modern Language Association
Selected Websites
Literature & Poetry
The Canadian Literature Archive: A repository for information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, texts, and library archives.
English Literature on the Web: A list of Internet sites pertaining to British authors, e-text, archives, medieval period, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection: The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide: Biographies of American authors, journal citations to critical articles, etc. The printed version of PAL is available for a nominal fee, but the Web version is free.
Music
Archives of African American Music and Culture: Selected List of Internet Resources for African American Music.
Classical Net: Features books, articles, scores, web links, and a buying guide.
Library of Congress American Memory Project - Music
Yahoo's Music by Genre Page
Religion
Academic Info: Religion--A Subject Index And Annotated Directory of Internet Resources for the Academic Study of Religion: Provides links to web sites dealing with religion, including reference sites, associations, universities, and online publications.
Religious Worlds : Resources for the study and interpretation of religions.
Virtual Religion Index: "Source for advanced research in matters of religion".
Yahoo - Religion and Spirituality
Visual Arts
Artcyclopedia: This site provides links to web sites covering more than 7,000 artists. The site is searchable by artist name, title, and museum.
The British Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts
eGallery.com - The Electric Gallery: This site contains artwork organized by artist and by collection.
The Guggenheim Museum
The History of Art Virtual Library: This site provides links to Internet art history resources.
The Louvre Museum (Paris)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMa The Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
