This site provides students of World Literature I with a list of sources on the texts in the course syllabus. The articles are available at the Silverman Library at Bergen Community College, in our electronic databases and on the World Wide Web. These links will help you understand the texts and write the required essays. Tips for writing at http://writingguide.geneseo.edu/. Use MLA Style.

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To learn how to access the Library databases from home, go to www.bergen.edu/library/dl/index.htm.

Library Catalog to find books and/or AV material on your author:

Search by subject to find books about your author or

Search by keyword (eg. aeschylus and criticism)

Periodical Databases (“Electronic Resources”)

LION Literature Online provides criticism, biographical information on authors, and full text of some literary works, with emphasis on English and American literature. To get to it, select “Resources by Title” and then “LION” from the list. The easiest way to find criticism is to go to “Search criticism and reference”. Type in the author’s name and a keyword for best results.

Of the Frequently Used Resources (general periodical indexes) on this page, Academic Search Premier and Proquest/PA Research II 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.

Using Gale The Gale Literary Index is a free online source that provides access to excerpts of criticism from many sources collected in several series of reference books owned by the Sidney Silverman Library (not available online). Criticism of most of the earliest works for this course (except Inanna) will be in the series Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, call number Ref. PN 610 .C53.

Web Sites

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection 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.

Inanna

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

Kramer, Samuel N. Sumerian Mythology Rev. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Call no. : BL 1615 .K73 1997.

inanna.html

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

Theogony

Hesiod’s Theogony http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Theogony.html Explore links at the bottom of this page also.

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Old Testament

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
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Epic of Gilgamesh

The Flood of Noah and the Flood of Gilgamesh – written from a creationist perspective, but includes a comparison chart http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-285.htm

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

Gender and aging in Mesopotamia : the Gilgamesh epic and other ancient literature / Rivkah Harris. HQ1064.I69 H37 2000
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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

The Ovid's Project - See images of Hell by Baur and Sandys at http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/index.html and woodcuts and engravings by various artists at http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/ambrose/clas42art5.html

Recent Ovidian Bibliography http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/rob/

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Bhagavad Gita

Glossary of Terms used in the Bhagavad Gita http://www.as.ua.edu/rel/pdf/rel100mccutchgitaglossary.pdf

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

Lao Tzu

Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy 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
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Homer The Odyssey

The Homer Homepage www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html
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Confucius The Analects

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

Confucius – Note the links from this page www.cifnet.com/~geenius/kongfuzi

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Aeschylus - page of publisher Bedford St. Martin’s annotated list of links www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/aeschylus.htm

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Medea (Euripedes)
Medea Homepage http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/medea.html

Koran or Qur’an
Sherif, Faruq. A guide to the contents of the Qur’an. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1995. Call no: BP130 .S538 1995

The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary. Islamabad: Islam International Publications, 1988. Call no.: Ref BP130.4 .A36 1988

Understanding Islam – a site that explains Islam only in the context of the Qur’an and the Prophet. http://www.understanding-islam.com/related/sscategory.asp?scatid=4

Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic, Religion – “Regarded by scholars as the most comprehensive academic website on Islam……” http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/

Confessions of St. Augustine
Sites about Confessions – from the Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=con-498
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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
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The Middle Ages Resources for Medieval Studies

The Dream of the Rood About “The Dream of the Rood” - background information and commentary. www.flsouthern.edu/eng/abruce/rood/POEM.HTM
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Dante, The Inferno

The Dante Home Page – Links to criticism and other information helpful in understanding the work. www.dc.peachnet.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
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Christine de Pizan, The Rhetoric of Tears
Study questions at http://www.geneseo.edu/~easton/Christine.html.

Boccaccio The Decameron
Author, texts, the plague and commentary at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/.

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Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

The work http://www.canterburytales.org/.

To learn more about the work http://www.geocities.com/readmore2002/readmore2002/canterbu.htm

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 – Links to articles on Chaucer. http://geoffreychaucer.org/commentary/

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

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Online Literary Criticism Collection – Miguel de Cervantes http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=cer-265
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Petrarch, Canzoniere
The Petrarchan Grotto – Links to texts, biographical and some critical information on Petrarch. http://petrarch.freeservers.com

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/

“Cheerful girls and willing boys: old and young bodies in Shakespeare’s sonnets” www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/macisonn.htm

“Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129: the joys and tribulations of making love” www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart2000/krims02.htm

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