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World Literature
Classics | French | German | General | Italian | Japanese | Spanish and Portuguese |
Classics
Classics Unveiled
Provides information on Greek and Roman mythology, Roman history and culture, and the Latin language.
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater
Today
“Didaskalia is an electronic journal and resource dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance.”
The Online Medieval and
Classical Library
A full-text collection of some of the most important classical and medieval literary works. Texts can be searched by author, title, genre, or language.
Perseus Project
An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Includes the full text of numerous literary works and allows keyword
searching of these texts.
French
The Alexandre Dumas père Web Site
Provides biographical information on Dumas (1802-1870), the full text of some of his works,
bibliographies, and a picture gallery.
Early Modern French Women
Writers
Focuses on women writers of the 15th-17th centuries. Includes the full text of
some of their works, biographical information, bibliographies, and an image of
each writer.
Online Center for Gideon Studies
Provides biographical and bibliographic information about André Gide (1869-1951),
critical analysis of his works, and a photo gallery.
Reading Women
Writers and African Literature
Provides biographical and bibliographic information in French and English
for women writers of Francophone Africa. Includes overviews of the literature
of individual countries and excerpts from selected works.
German
19th-Century German Stories
Offers short narrative works in German from the late 18th and
19th centuries. English translations and quizzes accompany some of the
works.
German Studies Web:
Literature Resources
Provides access to a variety of online resources including electronic journals
and full text resources.
General
Bibliotheca Augustana
Provides the full text of works written in Latin, Greek, English, French,
German, Italian and Spanish. Many of the texts are accompanied by brief biographical
information on the author and a list of secondary readings.
A Celebration of Women
Writers
A comprehensive list of links to biographical and bibliographical information.
Allows searching by author, country, or century.
Electronic Text Center
Provides the full text of thousands of humanities-related works in twelve
languages.
Electronic Text Collections
in Western European Literature
Lists Internet sources for literary texts written in Western European languages.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval
Studies
Provides the full text of some medieval works of literature, as well as
links to medieval-related web sites.
San Antonio
College LitWeb
Roger Bailey's San Antonio College site surveys literature by nationality,
time period, and ethnicity.
The Nobel Prize
in Literature - Laureates
Provides bio-bibliographical information and a photograph for each recipient
from 1901 through the present.
Other Women's Voices
Provides texts and excerpts of works by over 125 women writing from 2200 BCE
to 1700. Entries also include biographical information, portraits, and bibliographies.
Voice of the Shuttle:
Literatures other than English
Serves as a gateway to a variety of literature-related resources.
Women's Travel Writing,
1830-1930
Includes the writings of women travelers from and to the United States,
as well as selected American and European women travelers to non-Western areas.
Provides biographical information, bibliographies, images and maps.
WSSLINKS
Women and Gender Studies Literature and Culture Web Sites
Provides access to selected women's writing, literary criticism, bibliographies, book reviews and online journals.
Italian
Decameron
Web
Provides information on Boccaccio, the full text of the Decameron
in Italian and English, bibliographies, teaching aids, and beautiful images.
Italian Studies Web:
Literature
Serves as a gateway to Italian literature sites, reference resources, electronic
texts, listservs, and news groups.
The World of Dante
Provides the full text, in Italian and English, of Dante's Inferno
accompanied by numerous visuals.The text can be searched by keyword.
Japanese
Japanese Literature
Includes several bibliographies and links to web resources.
The Japanese Literature
Home Page
Includes a brief overview of Japanese literature, brief biographies on Japanese
authors, and information on Japanese literary prizes.
Spanish and Portuguese
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra
Provides access to thousands of digitized works of Spanish-language literature.
The Cervantes
Project
Includes biographical information on the author, links to the full text of works
by Cervantes, and the Cervantes International Bibliography Online, a comprehensive
listing of books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly materials on
Cervantes and his works.
Iberian Language
and Literature Web
Provides access to scholarly resources on Iberian language and literature.
Ibero-American Electronic
Text Series
A University of Wisconsin-Madison project devoted to providing online access to Iberian
and Latin American works in the humanities.
Libro: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
Provides the full text of recent but out-of-print university press monographs
focusing on the Hispanic Middle Ages.
© 2008 Eileen Oliver (eoliver@mail.accd.edu)
Updated on
August 26, 2008
URL: http://www.accd.edu/sac/library/faculty/eileen/WORLDLIT.htm
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