Web Resources

Unit 1. Comparative Literature

Approaches to Literature

http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.php

Lispector's "The Smallest Woman in the Word." Magical Realism

http://essaysforstudent.com/English/On-Magical-Realism/51038.html

Unit 2. Early Civilizations in the Bible and the New World

Ovid, Metamorphoses

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

Constantini, "In the Beginning" Who were the Neandertals?

http://www.earthsky.com/teachers/articles/articles.php?id=19

Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals/resources.html

Neandertals one-eighty

http://www.teachersnetwork.org/powertolearn/web/Prehistory%20Web%20Quest/neanderthal.htm

First Words

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/speech980427.html

Unit 3. Homer, The Odyssey.

http://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho/index.html

Homeric Problem

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer/

The Homer Page

facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/english_203b.html

Unit 4. Sophocles, Antigone.

Greek Tragedy

http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/GkTragedy.html

Antigone

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?q=Antigone

See essay writing guides

Unit 5. Dante, The Divine Comedy.

http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/

Dante Resources

http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html

Traveller's Guide to Hell

http://hometown.aol.com/cliokant/page/hell.htm

Unit 6. Aristotle, The Poetics.

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainPers.aspx

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=encyclopedia+Aristotle&vers=english

Theory

http://www.BrockU.CA/english/courses/4F70/crit.vs.theory.html

Unit 7. Eco, The Name of the Rose.

The film, The Name of the Rose

http://euro.net/mark-space/UmbertoEco.html

Hyperreality

http://www.transparencynow.com/eco.htm

Umberto Eco home pages

http://www.libyrinth.com/eco/

Unit 8. Cultures Beyond Europe.

Murasaki, The Tale of the Genji

http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/what/index.htm

Unit 9. Ngugi, Devil on the Cross.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o #1

http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Ngugi.html

Ngugi wa Thiong'o #2

http://bdagger.colorado.edu/~bhongale/ngugi.html

African Literature

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html

Unit 10. Amin Maalouf, Leo the African.

Amin Maalouf

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maalouf.htm

Poetry from Granada

http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/culture.html

Unit 11. Cervante, Don Quixote.

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/

Unit 12. Europeans Look to the New World.

Christopher Columbus

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/Columbus2.html

Montaigne homepage

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/montword.html

Bombal's "The Tree."

http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html/la/region/literature

Unit 13. Voltaire, Candide.

http://www.geocities.com/athens/7308/

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volindex.html

The Enlightenment

http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/

Unit 14. Literature and New Media.

English 336: Comparative Literature II

http://www.athabascau.ca/html/courses/engl/336/

English 475: Literature and Hypertext

http://www.athabascau.ca/courses/engl/475/

Other Sites of Interest for this Course

Comparative Literature Sites Research Institute for Comparative Literature (CLCWeb)

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/

Classical Studies

http://sshl.ucsd.edu/literature/classics/

Athens, Greece

http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/acropolis.html

St. Augustine

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/jodpapers.html

Classics Subject Guide

http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/classics/home.htm

Labyrinths

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/ subjects/labyrinths/labyrinths.html

Renaissance Europe

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

African Literature Links

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~chinook/fonlon-nichols/

Literary Resources on the Internet (AU Library)

http://library.athabascau.ca/