BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: A View From the Bridge
Great insight into Arthur Miller's play "A View from the Bridge". Intended for students preparing to take the British GCSE test, this site is beneficial to all students studying Miller and the play. With links to context, plot,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Pamuk: My Name Is Red
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers My Name Is Red, by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamluk. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the novel and find...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Roy: The God of Small Things
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the novel. Read an excerpt from the work and find...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wilson Center: Modern Korean History Portal
If you are interested in learning more about Korea this website includes resources to do just that!
Other
Modern City and Country Maps of Germany
A German Government user-friendly site that gives links to sites with excellent, up-to-date maps of Germany.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Elie Wiesel
Site examines Elie Wiesel, his writings, and his life's work. Site also offers an excellent interview with Wiesel.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920's
This site provides text from a lecture that looks at European culture after WWI. Looks at the literary and artistic developments during and as a result of the war. With links to several biographical websites on authors and philosophers...
Other
Thoughtful Learning: ccss.ela literacy.rl.8.9
Use the following resources to teach students how to analyze a modern work of fiction that draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edwin Dickinson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Edwin Dickinson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with integrating themes of modernism into his paintings.
Other
New Arts Library:paradise Lost the Summary Paraphrased
New Arts Library offers a rewritten version of Milton's summary of "Paradise Lost." Features less complicated, more modern language.
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)
E Pd Lp: El Poder De La Palabra
Space dedicated to prose, where you can find numerous Spanish literary passages, as well as author biographies and pictures. You can also read about art (organized by countries, periods, museums), music (organized by countries, periods,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art History: Global Contemporary Art
A guide to contemporary art around the world, themes, types of modern art, conceptual art, performance art, famous modern artists. We should at least pull out the artists we have in our famous persons bank. Should be cross-checked...
BBC
Bbc: Poetry Study Ireland
The BBC's Study Ireland features a wide range of contemporary poetic voices that explore five themes to give students a clear idea of how and why poems are written. The site provides the text and audio versions of the poems, along with a...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation: Allen Ginsberg
Poet Allen Ginsberg is featured in this brief biography for his literary contributions to the Beat movement. See "Allen Ginsberg Activities" for related resources.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Neoclassism: Epic, Mock Epic and Satire
Unfortunately, "literary" writing was not as simple and direct as political writing. When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant neoclassicism. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal...
McMaster University
Beowulf in Hypertext: Introduction Hwaet!
This site gives facts about the original Beowulf manuscript, its authorship, and its ties to archeology and culture. One may also read Beowulf in Old English or its translation to Modern English along with summaries of text portions and...
University of Virginia
Electronic Labyrinth:postmodernism & the Postmodern Novel
Overview of the Postmodernist literary movement. Describes the characteristics of Postmodern literature and gives some examples.
Other
The Cortland Review: Billy Collins
The texts of the poems "I Ask You" and Neither Snow" are included at this site, along with the audio versions read by the author, Billy Collins. Also includes a brief summary of Collins' literary work.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Anglo Saxon & Old English
A selected bibliography for primary and secondary materials, including facsimile texts in Old English, translations into modern English, and scholarship.
Emory University
Emory University: Buchi Emecheta
A complete site from the Emory University on Emecheta. Includes a brief biography, an essay on her themes, a list of her works and links to other sites.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Siddhartha
The complete full-text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
Other
Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: Alice Munro
A biography of Canadian short-story writer, Alice Munro, who has received numerous awards for her work. Learn about her early life, her collections of stories, and her stories' reoccurring plots and themes.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 Award Ceremony Speech
Text from a speech introducing Wole Soyinka before he accepted the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. Contains biographical information and discussion of his literary works.