Comparative Literature ENG 375

Comparative Literature Web Resouces

Web site for Lawall, Sarah, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. (Norton, 2003) http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/

Discovery Modules: http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/discovery_modules/dm_title.htm
Site Map: http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/index/site_map.htm

Literary Terms:

Glossary of Literary Terms (from W. W. Norton's Lit Web): http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/glossary_a.htm
Columbia Guide to Online Style: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Monkey

Overview for the Norton Discovery Module 7 (Travels): http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/discovery_modules/dm7_1.htm
Links for the Norton Discovery Module 7 (Travels): http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/discovery_modules/dm7_4.htm

Voltaire:

1. Voltaire Society of America:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/VSA/
Illustrations to Voltaire's Candide: [loads slowly]

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/VSA/Candide/illustrations.html

Voltaire's final Chateau (Ferney): http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/VSA/description.html

Additional Voltaire images: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/VSA/captions.html

2. Voltaire Foundation
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/ with online texts: http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/e-texts/www_cwvolt/cw_toc.html

3. Excerpts from Voltaire's "Treatise on Toleration"
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/voltaire.html

4. Voltaire's first Chateau (Cirey) : http://www.visitvoltaire.com/

Basho:

Text (with notes and illustrations) of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/1-prologue/index.html (best viewed with Internet Explorer)
Basho's Life: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html

History of Haiku: Before Basho and Basho

The Japanese Haiku Masters: Links, References, Resources: http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku6.htm

World Haiku Review: http://www.worldhaikureview.org/

Alexander Pope:

Essay on Man (from the University of Toronto)
Essay on Criticism, Part 1 and Part 2

"The Age of Reason"

1. From the Victorian Web: http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian.htm

2. Another introduction to Neo-Classicism (from Damrosch's British Literature)

3. Restoration and 18th Century Page (Voice of the Shuttle--links from Japan)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

Rousseau Association: http://www.wabash.edu/Rousseau/

William Blake links: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/eng203/BlakeLinks.html

British Romantic Nature Poets

David Damrosch's Romanticism introduction

Norton Anthology of World Literature Romanticism Overview: http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/s20_overview.htm

Romaticism Overview http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/misc/romanticov.html (Victorian Web)

Romantic Circles: http://www.rc.umd.edu/

Voice of the Shuttle, Romantics Page http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html

Romanticism on the Net (an on-line journal): http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/

Romantic Related Sites: http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/sites.shtml

Quotes on "The nature of Nature" (David Miall)

Wordsworth:

The Wordsworth Trust: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/

Lyrical Ballads (1798 Text): http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ballads.html (Univ. of Oregon)

William Wordsworth http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/ww/wwov.html (Victorian Web)

Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and the Romantic Landscape: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/romantic/topic_1/welcome.htm

Tintern Abbey and the Picturesque:

http://vi.uh.edu/pages/tintern/tint1txt.html

http://www.tintern41.freeserve.co.uk/abbey2.htm

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/tinturn.htm

David Miall's paper on relocating the site of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey": http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/tinternl.htm

The Picturesque:

Excerpts from William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye . . . (1782)

David Miall's sources on "The Picturesque."

from the second edition of Gilpin's Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty (1794)

"Reverend William Gilpin" (a short introduction)

"The Illustrating Traveller" (an exhibition on the Sublime and the Picturesque in America--Yale U)

Coleridge:

The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

with on-line annotated texts of Coleridge's poems

and a critical essay on Coleridge's conversation poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/stcov.html (Victorian Web)

P. B. Shelley:

Shelley page at the Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelley/shelleyov.html

Realism:

Courbet images: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/courbet/index.html
Daumier paintings: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/d/d-2.htm#daumier
Manet's Olympia: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/manet/p-manet17.htm (1863)
Cabanel's Birth of Venus: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/c/p-cabanel1.htm (1863)
Daumier Lithographs http://library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/daumier/ (requires Flash 4 for viewing)
Daumier Register http://www.daumier.org/

Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich:

James R. Elkin's website on the book: http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lawyerslit/exercises/ilych6.htm
An on-line text of The Death of Ivan Ilyich: http://www.classicallibrary.org/tolstoy/ivan/
Another on-line text of The Death of Ivan Ilyich: http://home.eol.ca/%7Ecommand/ivan.htm
Study guide to The Death of Ivan Ilyich: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/eh221/study-guides/tolstoy.html
Discussion questions to http://www.uwrf.edu/~sl01/ivan.html
A lecture on The Death of Ivan Ilyich: http://ellserver3.njcu.edu/courses/Gordon/pltolsl.html (Prof. Nicholas Gordon)
Tolstoy Links: http://www.utoronto.ca/tolstoy/links.htm (U of Toronto)

Ibsen, Hedda Gabler:

A good site in Hedda Gabler: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ibsen.html
Text of Hedda: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4093 (Project Gutenberg)
A psychoanalytic essay on Hedda: http://human-nature.com/free-associations/hand.html (Nigel Hand)
From Hedda Gabler to Votes for Women: Elizabeth Robins's Early Feminist Critique of Ibsen (Penny Farfan)
Ibsen Net (mostly in Norwegian, but . . .)

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice:

Andrea Mantenga's Saint Sebastian: http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page1106.html
The Iconography of Saint Sebastian (links to many images of St. Sebastian)
Boy Pulling a Thorn from his Foot (photo)
Images and History of Venice: http://members.tripod.com/Barry_Stone/venice.htm
Death in Venice (mostly a review of the Visconti movie version)
Philip Greenspun's Venice photo site
Ross Warner's photos of Venice
Jim Tardio's Venice photo site

Franz Kafka

Kafka's Metamorphosis, adapted by Peter Kuper: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/metamorphosis/
Which Character from Kafka's The Metamorphosis are You? http://www.nd.edu/~ljordan/metamorphosis/ (an online quiz)
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis -- pictures: http://www.kafka-franz.com/metamorphosis.htm (also features the complete text). From a very quirky Kafka site: http://www.kafka-franz.com/
Text of Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=40099

Postcolonial Studies, An Introduction: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Intro.html

Magical Realism: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/MagicalRealism.html
Hybridity: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/1WEBPAGE.HTML

Mahasweta Devi

Page on Devi by Shibani Baksi: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Devi.html
Interview with Mahasweta Devi: http://www.rediff.com/news/dec/24devi.htm
Mahasweta Devi wins Magsaysay award: http://www.rediff.com/news/jul/24mag.htm

Chinua Achebe

A study guide to Things Fall Apart:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html
Postcolonial Literature: Problems with the Term (Paul Brians)

Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize Naguib Mahfouz Page
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1988a.html
The Official Nobel Prize Mahfouz Page
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/literature-1988.html

A Mahfouz Bibliography:
http://nweb.pct.edu/homepage/staff/evavra/SDM/W12/Mahfouz_Bib.htm

Cross-cultural (mis)understanding

Mappa Mundi, 1290: http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/226A.html

Shakespeare in the Bush (Laura Bohannon)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Essays/Shakes_in_Bush.htm

Another, shorter version of Bohanon's article:
http://www.csubak.edu/~bhemphill/Classes/hamlet.html

Another version:
http://www.fieldworking.com/library/bohannan.html

The definitive version (Ameican Natural History)
http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/editors_pick/1200_read2.html

Paul Celan (Antschel):

The Paul Celan Homepage:
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/celan/

An Interview with John Felstiner, Celan scholar and translator [features Celan reading "Todesfuge."]:
http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=bw&air_date=6/28/01&tmplt_type=show

"After the Disaster" [Stephen Mitchelmore explores the post Holocaust poetry of Paul Celan]
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0900celan.htm

"Celan / Heidegger" Pierre Joris [An essay on one of Celan's most complex late poems] http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/joris/todtnauberg.html

Existentialism:

Albert Camus biography (Books and Writers)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm

An interview with Catherine Camus (daughter of Albert, from Spike magazine):
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0397camu.php

Existentialism: an Introduction:
http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/

Jean-Paul Sartre explains it all to you:
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/exist.htm

Literary Criticism on the Internet:

Literary History.com: http://www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm (". . . an index to literary criticism on the internet, covering more than 250 English and American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ")

Sources for Electronic texts:

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center [some access limited]
University of Toronto English Library
Representative Poetry Online
The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
The Bartleby Project
Renascence Editions (An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799)