Junior Sem Home Page

This is the homepage for English 301, Junior Seminar (Fall semester). It offers links to articles and resources on the course's five texts -- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Milton's Paradise Lost, Shelley's Frankenstein, Fielding's Joseph Andrews, and Morrison's Paradise -- as well as more comprehensive sites that will be of aid to you in researching and compiling your annotated bibliographies, learning research strategies, and gaining a fuller sense of academic discourse in literature and on the web.

This site is primarily a list of links; but, as always when compiling internet resources, comprehensiveness is an unattainable ideal. This site should be treated as a starting point -- by no means encompassing all the possible resources that will be useful to you, but showing you examples of the kinds of resources that are available to you on the net, and pointing you in the direction of places to go looking for more. Part of the purpose of this site is to provide you with access to sites on the net that will enrich your understanding of the course texts -- and the historical and literary environments that produced them -- as you work through the semester and the syllabus. Another part of the purpose of this page is to provide you with first-hand experience of the critical atmosphere of today, the work that's being done, and the work you have to do to find it. This page, in other words, is meant to train you both as readers and as researchers. Some important pages:

* The philosophy of this page page (apologies to Alan Liu).

* The syllabus for this course.

* We have developed a series of Web assignments for this course:

 

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Last revised August 1999.
ContactGail.Sherman@Reed.edu with questions or comments about the course.