World Literature

 

Greek Literature                                 

Webquest Assignment: http://www.oocities.org/tambrogan/greece.html

            Homer        http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html

                                        http://www.enl.umassd.edu/InteractiveCourse/Homer/homer.html

            Mythology  http://www.mythweb.com/

                                     http://www.messagenet.com/myths/

                                     http://www.greekmythology.com/

            The Iliad    http://www.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html

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

         The Odyssey  http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

                                     http://homepage.newschool.edu/%7Ewrightd/homer.html

                                     http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/

                                     http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/homer/odyssey.html 

 Middle Ages                

           History      http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm

           Dante         http://www.arches.uga.edu/~redman/

                                    http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante/

 Geoffrey Chaucer  http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

                                    http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

                                    http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/cantales.html

William Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

                                    http://www.bardweb.net/

                                    http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

The Tempest          http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/shakespeare/tempest.htm

                                   http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/tempest/

                                   http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/education/productions/tempest/index.shtml

                                   http://www.arts4schools.com/listings/skp-tem.shtml

                                   http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/tempest.html

Character, Metaphor, and Themes in The Tempest

                            http://www.novelguide.com/thetempest/characterprofiles.html

                                   http://www.novelguide.com/thetempest/metaphoranalysis.html

                                   http://www.novelguide.com/thetempest/themeanalysis.html

Romanticism (1800- 1850): 

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

William Wordsworth http://members.aol.com/wordspage/home.htm

                                     http://members.aol.com/wordspage/bio.htm

Realism (1850-1900)

      History            http://www.arbizu.org/~valerie/AmLit/Periods/Realism.htm

      France   

 Madame Bovary by Flaubert  http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~swheeler/2112Realism.htm

Victor Hugo             http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc90.html

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

Victor Hugo's Poems http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/hugo_victor.html

       Germany

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/fonseca/goethe.htm (see links)

                                    http://worldroots.com/brigitte/goethe1.htm

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

        Russia                                             

Leo Tolstoy      http://www.ltolstoy.com/

                             http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy/

                             http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/

Anton Chekhov  http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/chekhov.htm

         Norway                                       

Henrik Ibsen   http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc5.htm

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

A Doll's House  http://summarycentral.tripod.com/adollshouse.htm

                             http://www.cola.wright.edu/dept/eng/204/01w204/Ibsen_links.htm

The Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature

                        http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html

Franz Kafka     http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm

                             http://www.pitt.edu/~kafka/intro.html

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

The Metamorphosis    http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/kafka98-des-.html

                        http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/worldlit/kafka/kafka.html

The Holocaust (WWII)        http://www.ushmm.org/

                                          http://www.remember.org/educate/

                                          http://www.holocaust-history.org/

                                          http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

Elie Wiesel                http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/HOLO/ELIEBIO.HTM

                                          http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0bio-1

                                          http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0int-1

Night by Elie Wiesel   http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/night.html

                                          http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/wiesel.htm

                                          http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/1995-wiesels-night.html

Anne Frank                http://www.annefrank.nl/ned/default2.html

                                          http://www.annefrank.com/

                                          http://www-th.phys.rug.nl/~ma/annefrank.html

The Americas                

Pablo Neruda                 http://escuela.med.puc.cl/Departamentos/Pediatria/Pediat.2002.html

                                          http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html

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

Margaret Atwood       http://www.web.net/owtoad/toc.html

                                          http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/atwood/

Jamaica Kinkaid          http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kincaid.html

                                          http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/caribbean/kincaid/kincaidov.html

                                          http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/KINCAIDjamaica.html

Africa                                                             

Chinua Achebe            http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html

Things Fall Apart       http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html

                                         http://www.addison.lib.il.us/6achebe.asp

 

Poetry: Haiku                                                    

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

http://home.clara.net/pka/haiku/haiku.htm                                                                  

http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/poet/haiku.html