HUMANITIES : LITERATURE
 

This page is intended to serve as a Gateway to Literature Internet Resources for the academic staff, students and researchers at the Universiti Sains Malaysia.  All attempts have been made to ensure that quality sites are listed.  If you have comments and suggestions, please send them to  Ramlah Ibrahim at ramlah.ibrahim@notes.usm.my  Last updated November 2001.



 
General
Guides to the Internet
Reference resources (Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias)
Academic & Research Institutions
Conferences & Events
Electronic journals
Electronic texts
Listservs & Newsgroups

Special Literatures

Malay literature
English literature
African literature
Chinese literature
Indian literature
Japanese literature
Persian literature
Arabic literature
Latin/American literature
Comparative literature

Humanities-
General

Special Subjects
Geography
History
Islamic Studies
Language and Linguistics 
 



GUIDES TO THE INTERNET

Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/
Developer: Piet Wesselman
A "selection of useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers, both of new and second hand/antiquarian books." Topics also include Sources for real and electronic texts, Literature from many countries, Literature & the Other Arts, Literary journals, Some prominent periodicals and Great writers and poets. 

BUBL LINK: 800 Literature and rhetoric
http://link.bubl.ac.uk/literature/
Developer: BUBL Information Service, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University
Covers general Literature links as well as specific literatures: English, American, Germanic, Hellenic, other European literatures. Also has a section on literatures of other languages.

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature and Books
http://lii.org/search/file/literature
Developer: California State Library
Contains annotated links to Internet resources for Literature categorized under Books (best of...), Directories, Databases and Specific resources. Links to other categories (Awards, Book reviews, Genres, Full-text, Poetry, Writing) may be reached from the main index.

The Literary Web (IS 490)
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jbh/litweb.html
Developer: Antoinette Arsic, et al.
A hypermedia guide to literary resources available on the World Wide Web that  is geared toward readers of fiction and poetry as well as those who write it, and those who teach it. Categories include Authors, Books, Children's literature, Journals, Literary resources, Poetry, Writing resources.

Literature(Argus Clearinghouse)
http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewcat/Arts___Humanities/literature?kywd++
Developer: Argus Clearinghouse
Literature is defined here as the writings of a period, language or people, especially those preserved for beauty of style or thought. Topics included are: American literature, children's literature, classics, English Literature, fiction, literary resources, literature, mysteries, poetry, postmodernism, science fiction, and Shakespeare.

Literature (Humanities)
http://www.galaxy.com/galaxy/Humanities/Literature.html
Developer: Galaxy
Contains numerous links to authors, hypertext fiction, poetry, writing, academic organizations, articles, collections, directories and periodicals.

Literature Webliography
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit.html
Developer: Steven R. Harris, Louisiana State University Libraries
Categories in this virtual library include general guides, bibliographies, library catalogs, dictionaries, discussions, organizations, periodicals, style guides, electronic guides, electronic texts and individual authors.

NISS Directory of networked resources: Languages. Linguistics. Literature
http://www.niss.ac.uk/cgi-bin/GetUdc.pl?8
Developer: National Information Services and Systems, United Kingdom
The resources in NISS's Web service can be found by browsing an alphabetic or UDC list or by performing a keyword search. 

Social Sciences & Humanities INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Developer: Library of the University of California, Riverside
This site of scholarly Internet resource collections in social sciences, humanities and general reference has a search facility as well as browse features which will lead to annotated links in literatures and related resources.

The WWW Virtual Library: Humanities - Language/Literature
http://www.hum.gu.se/w3vl/lang.html#h6b
Developer: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Göteborg University.
This Index contains many useful links related to literature.

The Internet Book Information Center
http://www.internetbookinfo.com/
Developer: W. Frederick Zimmerman, Internet Book Information Centre
This guide (aka the IBIC Guide to Book Related Resources on the Internet) includes sections on Authors, Publishers, Booksellers, Libraries, Readers, Mailing Lists, Book Reviews, Rare Books, On-line Books and Magazine, Poetry, Short Stories, and Web Review Databases. 

Yahoo! Arts: Humanities: Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/literature/
This is the Yahoo directory to thousands of links to sites on literature.

ibiblio - the public's library and digital archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/
Developer: Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. 
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. It is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

Literary Resources -- Other National Literatures
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/other.html
Developer: Jack Lynch
This page is part of the Literary Resources collection of Internet sources on literature in languages other
than English.

Online Book and Author Projects
http://www.louisville.edu/library/research/literature/online.html
Developer: University of Louisville
This site provides links to literary electronic collection in various forms including plain texts, books and classic reference resources.

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REFERENCE RESOURCES
(Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias)

The LOGOS Dictionary
http://www.logos.it/dictionary/owa/sp?lg=EN
Developer: Logos Group
A mutating international dictionary (spanning several languages) maintained by a large group of professional translators.

A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Developer: Robert Beard, Bucknell University
Linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages.Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, 10th Ed.

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/
Developer: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
Merriam-Webster Language Center provides a dictionary, thesaurus and variety of word games and products.

Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/
Developer: Lexico LLC
Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator and Word of the Day.


 

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ACADEMIC & RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

Altavista:Humanities:Academic programs:Literature
http://dir.altavista.com/search?pg=dir&tp=Library/Humanities/Academic_Programs/Literature&crid=282640
This is the AltaVista list and links to literary studies departments, mostly English literature.


 

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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Events
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Events/
Contains list of literary events and links to other events including conferences, seminars, festivals, book fairs, and author events.

Yahoo! - Social Science:Communications:Writing:Conferences
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Communications/Writing/Conferences/
This site provides links to Writers/Writing Conferences and other events.


 

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ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

General Literature Journals
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2714
Developer: Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara
This site provides links to electronic journals for literature in general.


 

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ELECTRONIC TEXTS

Center for Electronic Texts in Humanities (CETH)
http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/
Developer: Rutgers University
The CETH was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in 1991 to provide a national focus for those involved in creating, disseminating and using electronic texts in the humanities. This includes works of literature (prose, verse, drama). A gateway to a very large number of important works.

Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Developer: University of Virginia
This site is an on-line archive of thousands of electronic texts which include Middle English texts, Bibles and Biblical materials, several Latin and French texts, and Modern English texts. 

The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Developer: John Mark Ockerbloom 
This listing of some 6000 titles of electronic texts may be searched by author, title or subject. Other than English, its archives also contain foreign language links.

Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Developer: University of Oxford
"The Archive contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more other languages. It contains collections and corpora of unpublished materials prepared by field workers in linguistics. It contains electronic versions of some standard reference works. It has copies of texts and corpora prepared by individual scholars and major research projects worldwide. The total size of the Archive exceeds a gigabyte and there are over 2000 titles in its catalogue..."

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/
Developer: Project Gutenberg & PROMO.NET
This site makes available collections of electronic texts especially classic literature. "Project Gutenberg has blazed the path for making classic literature available electronically".

The Internet Poetry Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
Developer: Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
The archive will make available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The archive includes the work of living poets from around the world. The initial unit, as proposed, will feature eight poets, including Philip Levine and Nobel Prize winners Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz.


 

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LISTSERVS & NEWSGROUPS

Mailgate.ORG Web Server
http://www.mailgate.org/humanities/index.html
Developer: Mailgate Srl
Mailgate is easy-to-use gateway service that allows to read, search and post messages to the newsgroups within a web browser.

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=humanities&hl=en
Developer: Google
A database of listservs where you can post and read comments in Usenet discussion forums.


 

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MALAY LITERATURE

General resources & Relevant websites

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
http://dbp.gov.my/
Developer: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
This is the homepage of the Institute of Language and Literature with contents including Galeri Sastera, Galeri Bahasa,  Galeri Penulis, etc.

Institut Bahasa Melayu Malaysia
http://ib.edu.my/
Developer: Institut Bahasa Melayu Malaysia
This site contains topics: Classical Malay Literature, Modern Malay Literature and Malay Literary Criticism.

LontarWeb: Laman Web Pengajian Melayu
http://202.185.96.100/default.asp
Developer: Perpustakaan Universiti Malaya and Akademi Pengajian Melayu, Universiti Malaya. 
Dibina berasaskan tiga buah pangkalan data iaitu: Bibliografi Pengajian Melayu (20,000 rekod), Direktori (biodata tokoh-tokoh, cendekiawan dan penyelidik dalam bidang Pengajian Melayu) dan Sumber Internet  (alamat laman-laman web yang berkaitan dengan Pengajian Melayu).

The Malay Book Collection At The ANU
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6795/
Developer: Raimy Che-Ross
A catalogue of images documenting a selection of rare Malay books from the Menzies Library at the Australian National University. The selection of Malay texts presented here include Sejarah Melayu, Syair Bidasari, Hikayat Putri Balqis, Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah, Syair Karangan Cheki and Syair Sinyor Laila. Images on the page may be zoomed in for a detailed look, and this would enable viewers to actually read the text in its original Jawi-Arabic script with ease. The page also provides a transliteration of certain sections of the text which have been referred to and a sypnosis of the Malay tales examined. (See also under individual texts).

KampungNet: the Singapore Muslim Community Page
http://www.pointpub.com/kampungnet/
Developer: Point Publishing Pte Ltd 
The Malay Language and Literature section include sudut sastera (literary corner), sastera lama (pantun, syair, gurindam) and common Malay proverbs. Profiles and selected works of  Abdul Ghani Hamid, Hj Muhammad Ariff Ahmad (Mas), Masuri S. N. are also included.

Pusat Manuskrip Melayu
http://www.pnm.my/new/
Developer: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia
This web page is about the original Malay manuscript collection at the National Library of Malaysia.

Bibliotheekdiensten UL
http://lbs.leidenuniv.nl/cgi-bin/wwwlibmenu?KEY=MAIN&LANG=EN&EXT=OFF
Developer: Leiden University Library
The catalogue of the Leiden University Library which contains many Malay manuscripts.

Newspapers

Malay Newspaper Catalogue
http://arkib.gov.my/Professional/Proakh.htm
Developer: Arkib Negara Malaysia
This site contains the catalogue of  Malay language newspapers and journals/magazines.

cyBerita
http://cyberita.asia1.com.sg/
Developer: Berita Harian Singapura
A Singaporean Malay Daily with poetry and short stories in its Literature and Culture columns.

Suara  Merdeka
http://www.suaramerdeka.com/
Developer:PT SUARA MERDEKA PRESS
Indonesian Daily.

KOMPAS Cyber Media
http://www.kompas.co.id/
Developer: Kompas Cyber Media
This KOMPAS web site also contains its daily newspaper.

Authors & Works

Muhammad Haji Salleh
http://www.geocities.com/ayahanda_m/
Developer: Muhammad Haji Salleh
This page is dedicated to Muhammad Haji Salleh, a National  Laureate of Malaysia (Sasterawan Negara Malaysia). Among others his literary contributions include the new trends in poetry, criticsms and Nusantara literary theory. His wide ranging field of involvement, which covers the literatures of Nusantara, Southeast Asia and Europe defines for us his outstanding scholarship. Muhammad has written poems, criticisms and literary theory in both Malay and English.

Hikayat Putri Balqis
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6795/putri.html
Developer: Raimy Che-Ross
Description of the text (dated 1881, published by Gerth Van Wijk, Leiden) and a transliteration from Jawi to Rumi of Chapter One.

Kisah Pelayaran Munshi Abdullah
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6795/pelayaran.html
Developer: Raimy Che-Ross
Description of the 1889 Dutch compilation of “Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi dari Singapura sampai ke negeri Kelantan terkarang olehnya dan Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke negeri Jeddah”, found at the Menzies Library, ANU.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer
http://www.radix.net/~bardsley/prampage.html
Developer: Alex G. Bardsley
Website dedicated to Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer. It is intended primarily as a research tool. It contains photos, biographical and bibliographical information, essays and interviews in translation, news reports and book reviews, abstracts, articles and letters, and many other links.

Sejarah Melayu
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6795/sejarah.html
Developer: Raimy Che-Ross
A description with transliteration and images of the original text dated ca. 1831 published by The London Missionary Society Press. The Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals) is believed to be one of the most important example of classical Malay prose to be ever produced.

Syair Bidasari
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6795/bidasari.html
Developer: Raimy Che-Ross
Synopsis of the tale and description of the 1844 text published by W.R. Van Hoevell, Batavia (Java ).

Literature by genre

The Legacy of the Malay Letter - Taiping Exhibition
http://arkib.gov.my/malay/malay.html
Developer: Arkib Negara Malaysia
This site is the Online Exhibit Hall of "The Legacy of the Malay Letter" organised by Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism and National Archives.

Courses & Teaching resources

Malaysia
Academy of Malay Studies, Universiti Malaya
http://www.um.edu.my/APM/Index.htm

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
http://dbp.gov.my/

Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu
http://www.ukm.my/ukm/faculties/atma/index.html

Institut Bahasa Melayu Malaysia
http://ib.edu.my/

School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia
http://www.hum.usm.my/

Faculty of Language Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
http://www.fpbahasa.ukm.my/

The rest of the world
Asian Studies at University of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/artsandsciences/clas/majorstop.htm

Australian National University Faculty of Asian Studies: Indonesian Program
http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/seacen/indonesia.html

Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University
http://www.ace.lu.se/

Cornell University Department of Asian Studies
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/asian/

International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University)
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/

National University of Singapore, Department of Malay Studies
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/malay/

NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)
http://130.225.203.37/info/

Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
http://corn.cso.niu.edu/acad/cseas/index.html

Sophia University, Faculty of Foreign Studies (Japan)
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/home.nsf/E/home?OpenDocument

SOAS: The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
http://www.soas.ac.uk/

University of Pittsburgh, Asian Studies Program
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asp/

University of California, South and Southeast Asian Studies
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/

Electronic Journals

Majalah DBP
http://dbp.gov.my/dbp98/majalah/majalano.htm
Developer: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
This site contains synopses and  some full text of articles from journals published by Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka including Dewan Budaya, Dewan Sastera and Malay Literature.

Professional bodies and associations

The Association for Asian Studies
http://www.aasianst.org/
Developer: Jon Wilson
The AAS website is an official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associate site and contains a bibliography of Asian Studies online. 

Lontar  Organization
http://www.lontar.org/
Developer: Lontar Foundation
This website contains the programs, publications, and activities of the Lontar Foundation, "a private not for profit organization established in 1987 for the purpose of promoting appreciation of Indonesian literature and culture ..."

NZ Asian Studies Society
http://www.nzasia.waikato.ac.nz/
Developer:  Mike Roberts, NZASIA
"The New Zealand Asian Studies Society is a wholly independent body that since its establishment in
1974 has sought to encourage the spread of knowledge about Asia, its history, its culture and its role
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
General resources & Relevant websites

Bibliomania, The Network Library
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Developer: Data Text Publishing Ltd 
This site has links to literature and language references, fiction and non fiction, and poetry.

The English Server
http://eserver.org/
Developer: English Department, Carnegie Mellon University
The English Server is a cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. It offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of interests. "A veritable treasure trove of literature and culture".

Links to places literary
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/favelink.htm
Developer:  Rob Watt
A long, unannotated but well chosen listing of British/U.K. and North American and other literary sites including text archives. Probably of most value for its U.K. listings.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Developer: Jack Lynch
This site contains a search facility for links to literary resources. Categories include Classical & Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, American, Theatre & Drama, etc. 

My Virtual Reference Desk - Books and Literature
http://www.refdesk.com/books.html
Developer: Bob Drudge
Provides links to an alphabetical listing of sites related to books and literature.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp
Developer: Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara
This English Literature site includes works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature. Other literatures written in English and minority literatures pages are also included. The "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research" is woven by Alan Liu. Highly recommended.

The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource Homepage
http://www.zuzu.com/
Developer: Acclaimed Web Marketing & Design.
"With 7000+ organized links to helpful resources for writers, artists, performers, and researchers". Also contains link to their fully electronic publication of Zuzu's Petals Quarterly (established 1991).

   Reference resources

    Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

    Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
    http://www.bartleby.com/100/
    Developer: Columbia University, Academic Information Systems (AcIS), Bartleby Library
    Based on the 9th ed. of  Bartlett's Familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. 

    OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
    http://www.onelook.com/
    Developer:Robert K. Ware, Study Technologies
    An Index of 2,299,280 English words in 461 dictionaries - a very useful resource.

    Oxford English Dictionary
    http://www.hti.umich.edu/dict/oed/
    Developer: Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan
    For subscribers only.

    Roget's Internet Thesaurus
    http://www.thesaurus.com/
    Developer: Lexico LLC
    The online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases.

    Directories

    English Department Worldwide
    http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/links/engdpts.html
    Developer: David Hoover, Department of English, Hoover University
    A worldwide hyperlink list of over 1,300 English Department homepages.

    English Departments Online
    http://www.marist.edu/humanities/english/engdep.html
    Developer: Tom Goldpaugh, Marist College.
    An excellent annotated list of links for U.S and Canadian Institutions.
     

Authors & Works

Beowulf Resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/beowulf/beowulf.html
Developer: Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
Includes Bibliography of studies of Beowulf for students, Beowulf in the original Old English, Translations of the poem by Francis Gummere and Ruth Lehmann and key word search of Beowulf (in translation).

The complete works of William Shakespeare
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
Developer: Jeremy Hylton
This is the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.This site has all the Bard's work online (plays, sonnets and poems) with links to other sites, literary criticism and text search facility.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Developer: Terry A. Gray
 An annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.

Children’s literature

Children's Writing Resource Center -- Writing for Children
http://www.write4kids.com/index.html
Developer: Children's Book Insider
The site contains information on writing for children, exclusive Special Reports, messaging and live chat, the latest children's bestsellers, links to other important sites and much more. CWRC is presented by Children's Book Insider, the newsletter for children's writers.

Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Developer: Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC)
This page focuses on children's literature in education. 

Electronic Resources for Youth Services
http://www.iasl-slo.org/chlitres.html
Developer: Erez Segal
"This web site is dedicated to reviewing WWW resources related to children's literature and youth services. These resources are aimed towards school librarians, children's writers, illustrators, book reviewers, storytellers, parents, and others interested in this area." 

CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Developer: David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary, Canada
A website with a guide to Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Children's Literature - Electronic Journals and Book Reviews
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/journals.html
Developer: David K. Brown
Children's Literature - Electronic Journals and Book Reviews indicates an Internet resource that is particularly valuable.

Creative writing

Inkspot: the writer's resource 
http://www.inkspot.com/
Developer: Debbie Ridpath Ohi
A writing resource and community that offer market information, tips on improving your writing, articles, interviews with professional authors and editors, networking opportunities, and a guide to the best resources for writers on the net. 

The UVic Hypertext Writer's Guide
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/
Developer: Department of English, The University of Victoria
"This Guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature. Includes extensive detailed information on: Essays, Paragraphs, Sentences, Words, Sources, Literary Terms Alphabetically, Literary Terms By Category, Summaries, Logic, Grammar, Marking Symbols. A good reference resource."

Writing Resources on the Internet
http://www.marist.edu/humanities/english/writers.html
Developer: Tom Goldpaugh, Marist College
The resources in this page include online writing centres, writing projects and resources, and electronic journals on composition theory for writers, teachers of writing and students. 

Literature by genre

Free Library of Classics
http://www.information-resources.com/Library/library.html
Developer: Information Resources
Povides free on-line books, etexts; over 200 of the world's most famous novels, plays, short stories, poems and historical documents in their entirety for your reading pleasure and edification. Below are categorical listings and an alphabetical listing that will help you find your favorite. Also, recently added, is an Author's Directory and the Alphabetical Listing is now on a separate page. 

Poetry (Literature)
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Literature/Poetry.html
The Galaxy directory and search page for poetry resources in Internet.

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AFRICAN LITERATURE

General resources & Relevant websites

African Literature on the Internet
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html
Developer: Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources
An annotated guide to internet resources on African literature.

African Studies - African Literature
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/aflit.html
Developer: Columbia University Libraries
Annotated links to African literature sites, including some in French.

Authors & Works

Ben Okri Text Page
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~rbb0/academic/projects/okri/main.html 
Developer: Robert Bennett
The contents of this Ben Okri page include biographical information, primary text, secondary criticism, quotes, multimedia images, teaching tips and links to other Ben Okri information on the web.

Buchi Emecheta
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/EmechetaEN.html
Developer: A.J. Simoesda Silva
Provides a profile of the African writer and guides to her publications and biography, and an analysis of her work.London-based Nigerian novelist, Buchi EMECHETA was born in 1944, in Lagos. The author of novels, children books and short-stories, her work is truly prodigious in its scope. Her tendency to alternate more serious works with 'potboilers' has led to some critics dismissing her as a minor writer.

Courses & Teaching resources

University of the Witwatersrand Department of African Literature courses
http://www.wits.ac.za/aflit/

Listservs & Newsgroups

African Literature Homepage
http://www.africamissions.org/africa/afrlit.htm
Developer: Eugene Baer
Afrlit is a listserv to promote discussion of works of literature by African authors, including both past and contemporary writers and works in all genres. WWW Virtual Library Africa Section: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.


 

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CHINESE LITERATURE

General resources & relevant websites

Local On-Line Resources
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/china.htm#anchor346212
Developer: Dr. Bob Whipple and Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, English Deprtment, Creighton University.
This site provides links to Dr. Robert Churchill's Handbook for the Study of Eastern Literatures (Ancient China, Book of Songs and Confucius) and Dr. Kathleen Collins's Annotated Bibliography for the Study of Women's Literature (Li Ch'ing-chao).

Chinese Literature Web Links
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/china.htm#anchor350198
Developer: Dr. Bob Whipple and Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, English Deprtment, Creighton University
Find other relevant links related to Chinese literature from this site including on-line texts in Chinese and English.

Classical Chinese Literature
http://zhongwen.com/gudian.htm
Developer: Rick Harbaugh
This site contains Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works.

Art of China Homepage/Classic Chinese Literature
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/classlit.html
Developer: Purdue University
Analects / Confucius Bibliography on Confucian Philosophy Da Xue (The Great Learning) / Confucius Tao Te Ching / Lao Tzu The Art of War / Sun Tzu Chinese Philosophy Page.

China the Beautiful - Chinese Art and Literature
http://www.chinapage.com/china.html
Developer: Dr. Ming L. Pei
Primary resources of Chinese Classical Arts, Literature, Poetry, Calligraphy, Painting, History, Philosophy.

Reference resources

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm
Developer: Kirk A. Denton and Thomas Chan, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University.
This resource center contains, among other things, bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture.

Recommended Books
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/china.htm#anchor352930

Audiovisual resources
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/china.htm#anchor106562

Bibliography
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/china.htm#anchor346212

Authors & works

Lu Xun Father of Modern Chinese Literature
http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/luxun/luxun.html
Developer: Tim Gallaher
Survey of the work of Lu Xun, with pictures and links. Lu Xun is a pen name. His real name was Zhou Shuren. Lu Xun wrote stories, poetry, essays, literary criticism and literary history. His stories were published in literary journals of the time and were then collected and published as books.

Chinese Text Initiative
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/
Developer: University of Virginia Library
Chinese Text Initiative is an effort to make texts of Chinese literature available on the World Wide Web. The texts and images in the Chinese Text Initiative may be downloaded or copied only with permission from the Electronic Text Center. Big5 encoding for Chinese texts has been used in this site: 300 Tang Poems, Gu Yao Yan, Shi Jing, Hong Lou Meng, Yu Xuan Ji. Another two sites were conceived by Anne Kinney in collaboration with Chinese Text Initiative: Lienü zhuan and Chinese Literature in Translation.

Electronic Journals

Scholarly Journals Publishing On Modern Chinese Culture
http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/jou.htm
Developer: Kirk A. Denton and Thomas Chan, Dept of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University.
"Table of Contents" are prepared by the East Asian Library, University of Minnesota. This list contains both print and e-journals.

Olive Tree: Chinese Literature and Culture
http://www.wenxue.com/
Developer: Wenxue.com
Monthly literary magazine is dedicated to Chinese literature. Read contemporary works from Chinese writers around the world.


 

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INDIAN LITERATURE

General resources & Relevant websites

Indian Literature Resources Page
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/india.htm
Developer: Dr. Bob Whipple and Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, English Deprtment, Creighton University
Find other relevant links related to Indian literature from this site including on-line texts in Indian and English.

Authors & Works

Salman Rushdie
http://www.trill-home.com/rushdie.html
Developer: Subir Grewal
This site contains information about Salman Rushdie, a Bombay (Mumbai) born author, novelist and currently incognito and his published works plus numerous links to other related pages.

Anita Desai
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/india/desai/desaiov.html
Developer: Anoop Sarkar
This site contains information about Anita Desai. Having born to German-Indian parentage and grown up during the World War II, her work is part of a new style of writing to come out of India which is not nearly as conservative as Indian writing has been in the past. Some of her works are Cry, The Peacock (1963), Voices in the City (1965), Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1968) and The Peacock Garden (1974).

Listservs & Newsgroups

SASIALIT: Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora
http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/play/sasialit/
Developer: Prentiss Riddle
This mailing list is for the discussion of contemporary literature of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), including works by authors of South Asian origin throughout the world. The primary focus of the list is on authors who work in English.


 

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JAPANESE LITERATURE

General resources & Relevant websites

Yahoo! - Japan: Humanities: Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Japan/Arts_and_Humanities/Humanities/Literature/
This is the Yahoo directory to thousands of links to sites on Japanese literature.

Japanese Text Initiative
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index.html
This is the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library site of the Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web.

Japanese Literature Webring
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~zenzen/jlit.htm
Developer: Japanese Literature Webring
Recommended for people starting out on Japanese Literature.

History of Japan's Literature
http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/jliterature.html
Developer: Kanzaki.com
Begins with the Nara period, when tales from the oral traditions of the past started to be written down. Includes here is 
Heian, Kamakura-Muromachi, Edo and Meiji period until present.

Japanese Literature Resources Page
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/japan.htm
Developer: English Department, Creighton University.
Creighton University's Japanese bibliographic and internet resources as well as online texts.

Japanese Literature Site
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html#links_literature
Developer: Jim Breen
This site provides useful links to Japanese literature that includes Japanese poems, storiesand novels. Discover more sites by navigating through this link.

The Japanese Literature Home Page
http://faculty.web.waseda.ac.jp/mjewel/jalit/
Developer: Mark Jewel
This site is meant to serve as a general source for information in English on Japanese literature. With minor exceptions, all content is in English even when discussing Japanese texts. 

Authors & Works

Japanese Authors and Works
http://faculty.web.waseda.ac.jp/mjewel/jalit/author_index/authors_works.html
Developer: Mark Jewel
CThis site contains a fairly long list of Japanese writers that can be viewed in both English and Japanese. It provides index to the Japanese authors with brief biographical information. Note that this list follows the usual Japanese practice of giving the surname first. For reasons of typeface compatibility, long vowels here and throughout the site are represented by circumflexes rather than by macrons.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, 1892-1927
http://www.kalin.lm.com/akut.html
Features biography, selected works in translation and excerpt of writings of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, including Hell Screen, Cogswheels and A Fool's Life.

Osamu Dazai (Tsushima Shuji), 1909-1948
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dazai.htm
Developer: Petri Liukkonen
This site contains information about the Japanese novelist who became at the end of World War II the literary voice of his generation. Dazai's life ended in double-suicide with his married lover. In many books Dazai used biographical material from his own family background as the son of wealthy landowner and politician. He also wrote children's stories and historical narratives some of which are Shayo (1947, The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (1948, No Longer Human).

Abe Kobo
http://www.ibiblio.org/abekobo/
Developer: Mark Gibeau
Abe Kôbô (pron. "Ah-bay Koh-boh") (1924-1993) stands out from his contemporaries in postwar Japanese literature in a number of ways. His works differ dramatically from the subjective, ultra-realistic and autobiographical-esque style that characterizes a great deal of postwar literature in general and postwar Japanese literature in particular.

Kenji Miyazawa
http://www.g-search.or.jp/kenji/english/
Developer: G-Search
Miyazawa Kenji has transcended the generations to become one of Japan's most read and best loved authors. Born over a hundred years ago in 1896 in Iwate Prefecture, he was only 37 at the time of his death. Kenji's literary works received scant attention during his lifetime and only two books were published before his passing: a collection of children's tales entitled "The Restaurant of Many Orders" and the first section of his most famous work of poetry, "Spring and Ashura." The remainder of the great number of children's stories and poems that he left behind was edited and published only posthumously, after which the richness and depth of his art finally gained wide recognition.

Online Text

Japanese Text Initiative of the Universities of Virginia and Pittsburgh
http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/
Developer: University of Virginia Library
The Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library, makes texts of classical Japanese literature to provide access to those interested in Japanese literature.

Aozora Bunko (Blue Sky Collection)
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
A fairly extensive and growing collection of downloadable e-texts for modern Japanese authors (up to about 50 years ago). The texts are offered in plain text, HTML, and Expand Book versions. A page of links gives the locations of other e-text sites, including those with classical works. Specific font required.

The Private Public Domain Library
http://www.cnet-ta.ne.jp/p/pddlib/default.htm
Developer: Private Public Domain Library
The choice of the oxymoronic name is said to reflect the paucity of e-texts available from institutional sites. Contains downloadable Japanese texts of works by Akutagawa Ryûnosuke, Kajii Motojirô, Tayama Katai, Natsume Sôseki, Mori Ôgai, and several others. Specific font required.

Shoseki Dijitaru-ka linkai
http://www.wao.or.jp/naniuji/
Developer: Waonet Co., Inc.
Although no texts are actually archived on the site, there is an extensive collection of links to works from all periods that can be found on other sites. The most recent links, however, date from August 2000. Specific font required.

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PERSIAN LITERATURE
General resources & Relevant websites

Persian Literature
http://www.iranonline.com/literature/
Developer: Iran Online
Features selected works of Persian poets and writers in Farsi and/or English translation.

Persian Literature Links
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/persian_lit.html
Developer: Columbia University
Provides important links to Persian literature.

Persian Literature In English
http://navier.aero.psu.edu/%7Esxb45/P_in_E.html
Developer: Said Boluriaan Esfahaani
Contains selected works translated from Farsi to English such as Gulistan of Sa'adi, Bustan of Sa'adi and Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.

Authors & Works

Amir Khusro
http://www.angelfire.com/sd/urdumedia/
Developer: Yousuf Saeed
Amir Khusro Dehlavi (also spelt Khusrau or Khusrow), a prolific Persian poet (1253-1325 AD) associated with royal courts of more than seven rulers of Delhi Sultanate, is also a household name in much of North India and Pakistan, through the playful Hindi riddles, couplets and legends attributed to him. This site is contains an essay about Khusro's Urs (death anniversary), his Hindvi poetry, and some selections from his Farsi poetry, besides various interesting stories and links.

Sadeq Hedayat
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/2943/
Developer: Farzin Yazdanfar
A tribute to Sadeq Hedayat, the leading fiction Writer of modern Iran. This site contains Sadeq's biography, list of his works, samples of his handwriting, paintings and drawings, and photographs.

Literature by genre

Persian Poets, Poetry and Poetic Art
http://www.farsinet.com/poetry/
Developer: FarsiNet
This page contains a selection of poems (in Farsi and English translation) by Khayyam, Sa'adi, Hafez, Mowlavi and others.

PersianPoema.com
http://www.persianpoema.com/
Developer: PersianPoema
PersianPoema is dedicated to the Persian poetry and literature. It also provides an avenue for visitors to share and exchange ideas and opinions on this very topic and submit their own works for review by others.

The Arabian Nights
http://www.arabiannights.org/index2.html
Developer: Electronic Literature Foundation
Welcome to the Electronic Literature Foundation's presentation of The Arabian Nights. This site features several illustrated editions of the Arabian Nights in translations by by Lang and others.

Electronic Journals

The Iranian
http://www.iranian.com/
Developer: Iranian.com
An online magazine featuring latest updates on Iran.

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ARABIC LITERATURE

Literature by genre

Arabic Literature
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/arabic_lit.html
Developer: Columbia University
This site provides links to Arabic literature resources in Arabic or English language.

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LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

General resources & Relevant websites

An Internet guide to Latin American literature
http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
Developer: University of Texas
This website is designed to help you find Internet resources on Latin American Literature. It attempts to bring together sites relevant to one of the most exciting areas of contemporary literature.

LatinoWeb
http://www.latinoweb.com/index.html
Developer: LatinoWeb
Contains numerous links related to Latin American world and provides searching tool.

Course & Teaching resources

Colby College Program
http://www.colby.edu/las/

Bowdoin College
http://www.bowdoin.edu/

Authors & Works

Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/
Developer: Jorge Luis Borges Center, University of Aarhus
The Borges Center web site includes a comprehensive biblography, essays, book reviews, and a view of some manuscripts. In English, Spanish or French.

Julio Danis Cortazar
http://www.trill-home.com/cortazar/index.html
Developer: Subir Grewal
Biography, bibliography, graphics, links to other sites, including Literatura Argentina Contemporánea.

Gabriel García Márquez
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/index.html
Developer: Quail
An excellent website including a biography, bibliography and links to other sites (English).

Carlos Fuentes
http://www.ups.edu/faculty/velez/FL380/fuemain.htm
Developer: University of Puget Sound
Provides reading guides and links related to Carlos Fuentes.

Mario Vargas-Llosa
http://www.ups.edu/faculty/velez/FL380/Varmain.htm
Developer: University of Puget Sound
This iste includes reading guides and links about Mario Vargas-Llosa.

Listservs & Newsgroups

Saludos Web: Hispanic Resource Center-- Mailing Lists
http://www.saludos.com/hispaniclinks/lists.html

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

General resources & Relevant websites

ÉCLAT: The Essential Comparative Literature And Theory Site
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
Developer: University of Pennsylvania
An index of well chosen sites for those interested in comparative literature. Contents include Comparative Literature at Penn, Other Web Sites of a Literary or Cultural Studies Bent, Journals, News & the Profession, Comparative Literature Programs Elsewhere on the Web, Electronic Library Sites, Theory Sites & Resources on the Web, Humanities Computing and Electronic Text Archives.

BCLA: Comparative Literature Worldwide
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/bcla/clww.htm
Developer: Duncan Large
Provides a list of links to comparative literature departments, centres and programmes with a WWW presence. Includes coverage of countries like Australia,  Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA, Yugoslavia

Electronic Journals

Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature
http://www.indiana.edu/~ycgl/
Developer: Indiana University

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture journal
http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/
Developer: Purdue University Press; Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, editor.
 


 

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