• Sources for Many Works
• Sources for Individual Works

 Library Catalog ("Find Books"on the Library's home page)to find books and/or media material on your author or work

      Search by subject  to find books about your author  or
      Search by  keyword  (eg. Aeschylus and criticism)

To Find Articles (and other resources)*

      The  Literature Resource Center (Gale) is an online source of  biographical and critical information from various books and journal articles.

      The Gale Literary Index  provides access to criticism from many sources collected in several series of reference books owned by the Sidney Silverman Library. Some of this material is available online in the Literature Resource Center (above).  Criticism on most of the earliest works is in the series Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism,  call number  Ref. PN 610 .C53 and located on the main floor of the Library

      JSTOR: Language & Literature  is a small database of literary criticism. 

      Of the "Frequently Used Databases" (general periodical databases),  Academic Search Premier  and  Proquest Research Library  index the most literary journals..  Use one or two keywords to begin with and if you use keywords that would not be next to each other, use “and” between them, eg. Genesis and creation.

*For information on remote access to Library resources  go to http://www.bergen.edu/pages/2257.asp

 Web Sites

Exploring Early Ancient World Cultures –  a large site with an emphasis on philosophy and religion but  links to quality resources in other areas of culture.  http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies – http://www.the-orb.net/encyclo.html

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Literary Resources on the Net -  http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples - http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
 
 

Sources for Individual Works listed alphabetically by author (or title if anonymous)
 

Aeschylus

Links  to pages on specific works by Aeschylus - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=aes-256

Bhagavad Gita

 Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta’s World Literature Website – Bhagavad Gita - http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/gita/

Comments on the Bhagavad Gita…- http://www.friesian.com/gita.htm

Bible

Bible Gateway – allows you to look up passages in different versions of the Bible - http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible

The Interpreter’s Bible: the Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard Versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible.  New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1951-57.  12 vols.  Ref BS 491.2 .I55

Bocaccio, The Decameron

Author, texts, the plague and commentary – http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage – An attractive site designed to support classes studying Chaucer at Harvard University.

 www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Chaucer Commentary – Essays and Criticism – . http://geoffreychaucer.org/commentary/

Luminarium’s Essays and Articles on Chaucer - www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucessays.htm

Confucius, The Analects

Confucius – provides a table defining “the basic moral terminology of Confucius” - www.friesian.com/confuci.htm

Dante, The Inferno

The Dante Home Page – Links to criticism and other information helpful in understanding the work.

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/dante2.html

Dante’s “Clickable” Inferno – an interactive site of selections from The Inferno with notes on the text and different translations.

 www.carthage.edu/dept/english/dante/Title.html

DePizan, Christine  The Rhetoric of Tears

Study questions at http://www.geneseo.edu/~easton/Christine.html

Donne, John

Biographical and critical information on Donne from the beautiful Luminarium web site.

 http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/index.html

Euripedes, Medea

Medea Homepage - http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/medea.html

Genesis   see Bible

Gilgamesh

Storytelling, the Meaning of Life and the Epic of Gilgamesh – an essay on the epic by Arthur A. brown.

 http://www.rastko.org.yu/civ2/sumer/abrown-gilgamesh.html

Gilgamesh Summary -  http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Theogony.html

Explore links at the bottom of this page also.

Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey

The Homer Homepage - http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html

The Iliad and The Odyssey Page-  http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/homer.htm

 The Iliad – A study guide that provides literary and historical background - http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/homer.htm

 The Odyssey – a study guide by David Claudon - http://www.davidclaudon.com/odyssey/questions.html

Inanna

 Wolkstein, Diane and Samuel N. Kramer.  Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth.
New York: Harper and Row, 1983. (Book)  Call no.: BL 1616.I5 W64 1983

Elder, John. "The Descent of Inanna Magic is the art and science of changing consciousness at will." Overview of Inanna's myth, commentary and bibliography for further study -  http://www.jelder.com/mythology/inanna.html

Ancient Near East Sacred Texts. Texts, and FAQs on the religion and mythology of the region -  http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/index.htm

Job

World Wide Study Bible: Job -  http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/Job/index.html

see also sources listed under "Bible" above

Koran or Qur’an

Introduction to Islam - http://www.mideasti.org/indepth/islam/religion.html#quran

Understanding Islam – a site that explains Islam only in the context of the Qur’an and the Prophet.

http://www.understanding-islam.com/

Islam, and Islamic Studies Resources – “Regarded by scholars as the most comprehensive academic website on Islam……”

http://www.uga.edu/islam

Lao Tzu

Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy  (Book)   Ref. B126 .E496 2003

Lau Tzu in Context – use for links to more Internet sites - http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/guide/fp/laotzu.html

Machiavelli, The Prince

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/

Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe page of the beautiful Luminarium web site - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm

Ovid, The Metamorphoses

Ovid’s Metamorphoses – “An introduction and  commentary with discussion of myths and links to sources and influences in art and literature”

 http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm

 Images from old illustrated editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses - http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/ambrose/clas42art5.html

 and  http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/index.html

Petrarch, Canzoniere

 The Petrarchan Grotto – Links to texts, biographical and some critical information on Petrarch -  http://www.petrarch.freeservers.com

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Internet Public Library's  extensive, annotated  list of web sites -  http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=ham-102

Shakespeare, Sonnets

 Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet – probably one of the best of many sites on Shakespeare and his works.

 http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

Shakespeare's Sonnets - http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/index.htm

Sophocles, Antigone

Study guides: http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/antigone.htm and http://www.temple.edu/classics/antigone.html

 Sophocles, Oedipus the King

 A study guide and commentary -  http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/oedipus.htm

St. Augustine, Confessions of

Sites about Confessions – from the Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=con-498

The Tale of Genji

A Brief Genji Character List and Glossary – “…designed to help readers keep track of the characters in The Tale of Genji…”

http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/english/canary/genjicha.htm