World Literature

 

By Author A - L
Aeschylus Aristophanes Aristotle Balzac, Honore Boccaccio Camus, Albert Cervantes, Miguel de Cicero Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dumas, Alexandre Eripides Flaubert, Gustave Genet, Jean Goethe, Johann Grimm Brothers Homer Hugo, Victor Ibsen, Henrik Ionesco Kafka, Franz
By Individual Author M - Z
Machiavelli Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Moliere Montesquieu Ovid Petrarch Pirandello Plutarch Proust, Marcel Pushkin, Alexander Rabelais Rilke, Ranier Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Sand, George Sartre, Jean-Paul Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Sophocles Thucydides Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich Vargas, Mario Llosa Vergil

 

 

Selections from World Literature - General Resources and Individual Writers

CLASSICS – CHRONOLOGY Updated 9/28/05

Tragic Hero – Gilgamesh, Moses, Oedipus

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/oedipus.htm

Introduction to the Oracle at Delphi

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cl135/Students/Leslie_DesMarteau/delphi.htm

Oracles – General and Delphi

http://www.ozmore.com/greek/oracles.html

Women and Gender in the Ancient World

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

AESCHYLUS Updated 9/14/05

Aeschylus – Biography

Classicnote – Biography

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_aeschylus.html

Aeschylus – General Resources

Aeschylus and his Tragedies

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aeschylus001.html

Great Books Index – Aeschylus – Study Guides to the Plays

http://books.mirror.org/gb.aeschylus.html

Print Reference – Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Ref PN 681.5 .C614 Volume 11

ARISTOPHANES Updated 9/14/05

Aristophanes – Biography

Perseus Encyclopedia

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=aristophanes

Aristophanes – General Resources

Aristophanes and his Comedies – Critical Analyses of his Plays

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aristophanes001.html

Political and Social Satire of Aristophanes

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aristophanes003.html

Aristophanes and Old Greek Comedy

http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/Aristophanes.html

LYSISTRATA – WEB SITES

Lysistrata – About.com

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/lysistrata/a/lysistrata.htm

Women in Ancient Greece

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekwomen/

Theatre Database – Lysistrata

http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/aristophanes_005.html

Print Reference – Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Ref PN 681.5 C614 Volume 4

ARISTOTLE Updated 9/14/05

 Aristotle – Biography

Theatre Database – Aristotle

http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/aristotle_001.html

Aristotle – General Resources

Aristotle Classic Technique and Greek Drama

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/spectop007.html

Aristotle’s Politics – Classsicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/politics/fullsumm.html

Works of Aristotle

http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Aristotle/Poetics.html

Print Reference – Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Ref PN 681.5 .C614 Volume 31

BALZAC, HONORE Updated 9/14/05

Balzac – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm

Balzac – General Resources

Balzac’s World – Themes in the Novels of Balzac

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/balzacsworld2.html#politics

Balzac’s World – General Criticisms

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/balzacsworld2old.html

BOCCACCIO Updated 9/14/05

 Boccaccio – Biography

Biography Base

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Boccaccio_Giovanni.html

DECAMERON – SITES

Decameron Web

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1.shtml

“Figurative Language and Sex Wars in the Decameron”

http://www.heliotropia.org/02-02/migiel.shtml

“Unmasking Venice: Allegory and the Politics of Reading in the Decameron”

http://www.heliotropia.org/02-01/pennisi.shtml

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CAMUS, ALBERT Updated 9/14/05

 Albert Camus – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm

Camus – General Resources

Albert Camus – Links

http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/links.php?ikey=3

Notebook on Albert Camus

http://www3.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/Contemp_Philosophy/Camus_info.html

Camus – DMOZ Directory

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Camus,_Albert/

CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE Updated 9/14/05

 Cervantes – Biography

About Cervantes

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/biography/new_english_cerv_bio.html

Cervantes – General Resources

Publications of the Cervantes Society of America

http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/bcsalist.htm

Cervantes Related Links

http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/wclinks.htm

DON QUIXOTE – SITES

“The Duality of DonQuixote’s Character”

http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Literature/21L-002-3Spring-2004/BD65867A-5653-4DA4-AE81-B3E1639EE86C/0/donquixote_rewri.pdf

“Teaching Don Quixote as a Funny Book”

http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/cervantes/teaching.pdf

Don Quixote – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/quixote/fullsumm.html

CICERO Updated 9/14/05

 Cicero – Biography

Marcus Tullius Cicero

http://heraklia.fws1.com/contemporaries/cicero/index.html

Cicero – General Resources

Plautus, Terence and Cicero

http://www.san.beck.org/EC26-Cicero.html

Print Reference – Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Ref PN 681.5 .C614 Volume 3

DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR Updated 9/15/05

 Fyodor Dostoevsky – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm

Dostoevsky – General Resources

Christiaan Stange’s Research Station – Dostoevsky

http://www.kiosek.com/dostoevsky/

Dostoevsky – Essays

http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/essays.php

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Site

http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/

General Dystoevsky Site

http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/

General Dostoevsky Site

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/ltrn101/dostoevs.htm

CRITICISMS OF INVIDUAL NOVELS

 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

 Crime and Punishment – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/crimeandpunishment/fullsumm.html

Bartelby – Crime and Punishment – Book and Criticisms

http://www.bartleby.com/318/

BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

 Researching the Brothers Karamazov

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~karamazo/researching.html

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

 Notes from the Underground – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/underground/fullsumm.html

Study Guide for Dostoevsky – Notes from the Underground

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/underground.html

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE Updated 9/15/05

 Alexandre Dumas – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adumas1.htm

Dumas – General Resources

General Dumas Site

http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/liens.php

EURIPEDES Updated 9/15/05

 Euripedes – Biography

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc4.htm

Euripedes – General Resources

Euripedes and His Tragedies

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/euripides001.html

Euripedes Home Page

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/euripides.html

Pecularities of Euridean Drama

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/euripides003.html

INVIDIDUAL PLAYS

 MEDEA

 Medea – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/medea/fullsumm.html

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FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE Updated 9/15/05

 Gustave Flaubert– Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flaubert.htm

Flaubert – General Resources

“History with Style: the Impassible Writing of Flaubert”

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_n1_v30/ai_18631915

MADAME BOVARY – WEB SITES

“Flaubert’s Mystery Play: a Day in the Life of Madam Bovary”

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3777/is_200501/ai_n11826605

Madame Bovary – About.com

http://classiclit.about.com/od/madamebovary/index.htm?terms=madame+bovary

Brother’s Judd – Madame Bovary

http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/327

GENET, JEAN Updated 9/15/05

 Jean Genet – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jgenet.htm

Jean Genet – General Resources

“Objects of Abjection: the Animation of Difference in Jean Genet’s Novels”

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n1_v44/ai_20851476

GOETHE, JOHANN Updated 9/15/05

 Johann Goethe – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm

Goethe – General Resources

Poetry Archive – Goethe – Multiple Links

http://www.poetry-archive.com/g/goethe_johann_wolfgang_von.html

Theatre Database – Goethe

http://www.theatredatabase.com/18th_century/johann_wolfgang_von_goethe_001.html

GRIMM BROTHERS Updated 9/16/05

 Grimm Brothers – Biography

Brother’s Grimm Home Page

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html

Grimm Brothers – General Resources

Yahoo Directory – Grimm Brothers

http://d1.dir.scd.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/mythology_and_folklore/folklore/folk_and_fairy_tales/authors/brothers_grimm/

Studies of Specific Tales

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html#studieslinks

Complete Copies of all Tales

http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html

HOMER Updated 9/16/05

Homer – Biography

Homer Biography and Works

http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/biography/216/Homer/

Homer – General Resources

Homer Home Page – Meta Site

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html

Guided Web Tour of Homer’s Greece

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/greece/links.html

Homeric Gods

http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/HomGods.html

ILIAD – WEB SITES

 The Iliad

http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/iliad.htm

Conflicting Views of Helen

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/KOp.html

Iliad – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/iliad/fullsumm.html

Study Guide to the Iliad

http://www.temple.edu/classics/iliadho.html

Homer’s Iliad and the City of Troy

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2471/Troy.html

About Helen of Troy

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/abouthelen.htm

Virtual Iliad

http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Iliad/virtiliad.htm

The Iliad – a Practical Approach

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.09.x.html

ODYSSEY – WEB SITES

 Odyssey – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/odyssey/fullsumm.html

Calypso and Circe

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/AL1.html

Study Guide for Homer’s Odyssey

http://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho.html

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HUGO, VICTOR Updated 9/16/05

 Victor Hugo – Biography

Theatre History – Victor Hugo

http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/hugo001.html

Victor Hugo – General Resources

Theatre History Victor Hugo – Essays on Hugo and His Works

http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/hugo001.html

Victor Hugo Central

http://gavroche.org/vhugo/sitemap.shtml

IBSEN, HENRIK Updated 9/16/05

 Henrik Ibsen –Biography

Henrik Ibsen – Theatre Database

http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/henrik_ibsen_001.html

Henrik Ibsen – General Resources

The Dramatic Henrik Ibsen

http://www.mnc.net/norway/Ibsen.htm

Theatre Database – Ibsen

http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/henrik_ibsen_001.html

DOLL’S HOUSE – WEB SITES

 Doll’s House – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/dollshouse/fullsumm.html

Scandanavian Drama the Social Significance of the Doll’s House

http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Drama/doll.html

Parallels in a Doll’s House

http://department.monm.edu/classics/Speel_Festschrift/urban.htm

IONESCO Updated 9/16/05

Ionesco – Biography

Ionesco – Home Page

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/1052/ionesco2.htm

Ionesco – Biography

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ionesco.htm

Ionesco – Answers.com

http://www.answers.com/topic/eug-ne-ionesco

KAFKA, FRANZ Updated 9/16/05

 Franz Kafka – Biography

Literary Encyclopedia – Kafka

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2429

Kafka – General Resources

Franz Kafka – Biography and Pictures

http://www.kafka-franz.com/

METAMORPHOSIS – WEB SITES

 Metamorphosis – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/metamorphosis/fullsumm.html

Study Guide to Metamorphosis

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/metamorphosis.pdf

MACHIAVELLI Updated 9/16/05

 Machiavelli – Biography

Niccolo Machiavelli Biography

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/machiavellibio.html

Machiavelli – General Resources

New York Review of Books – Machiavelli

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10391

THE PRINCE – WEB SITES

Machiavelli – The Devil’s Morals :Ethics in Machiavelli’s The Prince

http://www.english-literature.org/essays/machiavelli.html

Machiavelli Lecture

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/machiavelli.htm

Freedom, Republics, and Peoples in Machiavelli’s The Prince

http://ptw.uchicago.edu/tarcov01.pdf

Emachiavelli – Excellent source of criticism on the Prince

http://www.emachiavelli.com/Prince%20outline_copy(1).htm

MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA Updated 8/17/05

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Biography

http://www.themodernworld.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

Gabriel Marquez – General Criticism

http://www.themodernworld.com/gabo./index.html

Print Reference – Contemporary Literary Criticism Ref PN 771 .C59

Volumes 2, 3, 8, 10, 15, 27, 47, 55, 68

One Hundred Years of Solitude Volume 68 pp.139-168

MOLIERE Updated 9/16/05

 Moliere

Moliere – Biography

Theatre Database –Moliere

http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/moliere_001.html

Moliere – General Resources

Theatre History – Moliere

http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/moliere.html

Studies of Moliere

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc35p.html#anchor171486

TARTUFFE – WEB SITES

 Tartuffe – Essay

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~stripp/2504/tartuffe.PDF

Tartuffe – Study Guide

http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/moliere/tartuffe.htm#links

Tartuffe by Jeffrey Aikens

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051339/Tartuffe/Jeffrey/Tartuffeindex.htm

MONTESQUIEU Updated 9/16/05

 Montesquieu – Biography

Montesquieu Life and Works

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montesquieu/

Montesquieu – General Resources

Montesquieu – Essays

http://ouclf.iuscomp.org/articles/montesquieu.shtml

OVID Updated 9/16/05

 Ovid – Biography

Island of Freedom – Ovid Biography

http://www.island-of-freedom.com/OVID.HTM

Ovid FAQ

http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/ovid-faq/

Ovid Life and Works

http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/OvidNotes.html

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PETRARCH Updated 9/19/05

 Petrarch – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/petrarca.htm

Petrarch – General Resources

Francisco Petrarch

http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/submissions.html

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PIRANDELLO Updated 9/20/05

 Pirandello – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pirandel.htm

 SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR – CLASSICNOTE

 http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/sixcharacters/fullsumm.html

PLUTARCH

 Plutarch – Biography

Perseus Project – Plutarch Biography

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&query=entry%3D%235399&layout=&loc=plutarch

Plutarch – General Resources

University of Texas Classics Dept – Plutarch Links

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/chaironeia/#links

PROUST, MARCEL

 Proust – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/proust.htm

Proust – General Resources

Tempsperdue – Proust Sites

http://www.tempsperdu.com/ops.html

Proust – Articles

Tempsperdue

http://www.tempsperdu.com/oa.html

PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER

 Pushkin – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/puskin.htm

Pushkin – General Resources

Pushkin – Northwestern University

http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/poetpage/pushkin.html

RABELAIS

 Rabelais – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rabela.htm

RILKE, RANIER

 Rilke – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rmrilke.htm

ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES Updated 9/28/05

 Rosseau – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rousse.htm

Rousseau – General Resources

EpistemeLinks – Rousseau

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Rous

Philosophy Pages – Rousseau

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/rous.htm

 

SAND, GEORGE Updated 9/28/05

Sand – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gsand.htm

Sand - General Resources

George Sand Some Aspects of her Life and Writings

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/sandb10.txt

SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL Updated 9/28/05

Sartre – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sartre.htm

Sartre – General Resources

EpistemeLinks – Sartre

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Sart

Sartre at Seventy an Interview

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/9113

DMOZ – Open Directory – Sartre

http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/S/Sartre,_Jean-Paul/

Jean Paul Sartre – Stanford University Site

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/

SOLZHENITSYN, ALEXANDER Updated 9/28/05

Solzhenitsyn – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/alesol.htm

Solzhenitsyn – General Resources

Postmodern Solzhenitsyn

http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/thornton99.html

World Split Apart – Commencement Address Harvard 1978

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html

SOPHOCLES Updated 9/28/05

Sophocles – Biography

Theatre History – Sophocles

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/sophocles001.html

Sophocles – General Resources

Sophocles Links – University of North Carolina

http://www.unc.edu/~oharaj/SophoclesLinks.html

Theatre Database – Sophocles

http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/sophocles_001.html

INDIVIDUAL PLAYS – CRITICISMS

OEDIPUS REX

Enjoying Oedipus the King

http://www.pathguy.com/oedipus.htm

Fate and the Hero in Oedipus Rex

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Tidepool/8194/index13.html

Oedipus Rex – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/oedipus/fullsumm.html

Oedipus – Tragic Hero

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/oedipus.htm

ANTIGONE

Theatre History – Antigone

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates017.html

Study Guide for Sophocles Antigone

http://www.temple.edu/classics/antigone.html

Antigone – Classicnote

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/antigone/fullsumm.html

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THUCYDIDES Updated 9/28/05

Thucydides – Biography

Perseus Encyclopedia – Thucydides

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:id=thucydides

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TOLSTOY, LEO NIKOLAYEVICH Updated 9/28/05

Tolstoy – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ltolstoi.htm

Tolstoy – General Resources

Introduction to Tolstoy’s Writings

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/smmnsej/tolstoy/index.htm

Tolstoy and his Message

http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/tolstoy/

Leo Tolstoy – University of Virginia

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CheTols.html

Commentary on Leo Tolstoy

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/tolstoy/TolComm.html

VARGAS, MARIO LLOSA

Mario Llosa Vargas - Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vasgas.htm

"Mario Llosa Vargas – General Resources

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/28/specials/llosa.html Requires free registration

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Volumes 3, 6, 9, 10, 15, 31, 42, 83

VERGIL Updated 9/28/05

Vergil – Biography

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/virgil.htm

Vergil – General Resources

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/virgil.html

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