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Literature

- body of (usually) written works related by subject-matter, by language or place of origin, or by dominant cultural standards. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter). In Western culture the most basic literary types include poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction - Wikipedia.

Literature, Philosophy and Religion - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • ErraticImpact.com, Philosophy Research Base (US) - meta-index categorized by history, subject & author, integrates text & online resources: books, topics, philosophers, history, essays, gear, philosophy departments, philosophers by name, philosopher home pages, Journals, organizations, book search, featured webs

  • Michigan University (US), Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) - creation, delivery & maintenance of electronic texts & mechanism for furthering library community's capabilities in online text, freely available collections: text collections (alphabetic list of resources, making of America, sgml resources)

Other Sites

College English

Beth Ritter-Guth (US)

DeSales University Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, Women in War, Retribution, The Writing Process, Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley, British Literature Timeline, Romantic Period, "The Age of Oddities" British Romantic Lecture, British Literature
 

Twentieth-Century North American Literature

Warwick University (UK)

examines American writing published between 1900 and the end of the century focusing on selected issues such modernism and postmodernism, ethnicity and gender, regionalism and cultural geography: resources, webliography

FURTHER GREEK LITERATURE: Aristotle's Poetics

Leeds University (UK)

theory of tragedy developed in Aristotle's Poetics, usefulness of Aristotle's analysis of tragedy when applied to Homer and the Greek tragedians: Supplementary texts, Seminar notes

World Literature

Georgia Perimeter College (US)

survey of important works of world literature from ancient times through the mid-seventeenth century

Survey of American Literature

Mountain View College (US)

online course addressing selections of literary works by US writers from early colonial period through Walt Whitman: study of literature, colonies, revolution, new nation, (clashing theologies, the diarists, Calvinism & "the great awakening", literature of reason & revolution), native American heritage, romantic temper & house divided, resources

English - Course Materials

New York State University (US)
  • early & later Shakespeare - comedies, histories, and tragedies
  • best sellers - The Fifties (bombshells), The Sixties (hope & despair), The Seventies (war & peace), The Eighties (communists & capitalists), The Nineties (terrorism), resources

Milton

Yale University (US), Open Yale Courses

study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, controversial prose, his decisive influence on course of English poetry
 

The American Novel Since 1945

Yale University (US)

traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with history, changing place of literature in American culture, works by Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones
 

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