Great Books Index - List of Titles An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation To obtain an index of an author's works, including any known online editions of each work, and online articles about that author, select the author's name. To obtain an index of online editions of a particular work, select the name of that work. Authors are listed here in order of their birthdates (insofar as known). The Bible -- Homer -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Hippocrates -- Aristophanes -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Euclid -- Archimedes -- Apollonius -- Lucretius -- Virgil -- Tacitus -- Epictetus -- Nicomachus -- Plutarch -- Ptolemy -- Marcus Aurelius -- Galen -- Plotinus -- St Augustine -- The Quran -- St Thomas Aquinas -- Dante -- Chaucer -- Erasmus -- Machiavelli -- Copernicus -- Rabelais -- John Calvin -- Montaigne -- William Gilbert -- Cervantes -- Francis Bacon -- Galileo -- William Shakespeare -- Johannes Kepler -- William Harvey -- Thomas Hobbes -- Descartes -- John Milton -- Moliere -- Blaise Pascal -- Christiaan Huygens -- Goethe --
AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS : A Selected List April 2003 African American Fiction Writers: A Selected List Novels and short stories dealing with African American life are an important part of our collection. Here's a selection of some of our favorites. The Classics Arna BontempsJames BaldwinCharles ChesnuttW.E.B. Gay & Lesbian Donna AllegraSteven CorbinMelvin DixonLarry DuplechanJames Earl HardyE. Historical Barbara HamblyCharles JohnsonHiram KingJulius LesterJames McEachinToni MorrisonJewel Parker RhodesSherley Anne WilliamsMargaret Blair Young Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Steven BarnesLevar BurtonOctavia ButlerSamuel R. Mystery & Suspense Eleanor Taylor BlandCharlotte CarterChristopher ChambersChristopher DardenNora DeLoachGrace F. Urban Life Toni Cade BambaraPaul BeattyGwendolyn BrooksStanley CrouchRicardo Cortez CruzNelson GeorgeClaude McKayWillard MotleyJess MowryRobert Deane PharrJohn Edgar WidemanAl Young Romance Women Toni Cade BambaraConnie BriscoeMaxine ClairPearl CleageJ. Men Michael BaisdenEric Jerome DickeyTrey EllisE. The South
American Literature Sites Home | Literary Movements | Timeline | American Authors | American Literature Sites | Bibliographies | Site Updates American Literature Sites (undergoing updates & a change of format) Common-Place is an online journal sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society; it features excellent articles on American history and culture. The Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Web. General Literature Sites Victorian Web. Digital Projects The Aurora Project is a digital visualization of data showing the mobility of African Americans during Reconstruction and later years The NINES Project is a peer-reviewed site that uses special software (Collex) to enhance the usability of current literary digitization projects on the web. Books Online Note: Because of copyright restrictions, only works published prior to 1923 and those made available by the copyright holder are available for free online. Google Books. Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Primary Sources Miscellaneous Resources
Ulysses by James Joyce TIMELINE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE & EVENTS : 1620-1920 Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920 This timeline provides a short chronology of events in American history and literature. It is linked to course pages and bibliographies as well as to a set of more general linked resources: pages on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites. Each author page contains a picture (if available), a bibliography (if available), links to major sites about the author, and links to works online.
The American Novel . Literary Timeline . Movements . Postmodernism Variously defined, "postmodernism" can refer to a historical period that began in the 1940s, a style of literature, philosophy, art, and architecture, or the situation of Western society in a late capitalist or postcapitalist age. The French theorist Jean-François Lyotard succinctly defined postmodernism as "incredulity towards metanarratives"; that is, a skepticism toward the "grand narratives" that seek to explain and plot human life and history. Literary postmodernism is generally characterized by features such as: a mixing of styles ("high" and "low," for example) in the same text; discontinuity of tone, point of view, register, and logical sequence; apparently random unexpected intrusions and disruptions in the text; a self-consciousness about language and literary technique, especially concerning the use of metaphor and symbol, and the use of self-referential tropes. The American writers most typically termed postmodernist are Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), William S.
BLACK WRITERS They are the famous African-American writers who have fearlessly examined cultural stigmas, provided intimate life details, presented new ideas and created remarkable fiction through literary works. They are the famous African-American writers who have fearlessly examined cultural stigmas, provided intimate life details, presented new ideas and created remarkable fiction through literary works. For their prophetic genius, these men and women have received Pulitzer Prizes, NAACP awards and even Nobel Prizes, among other honors. Our list of prominent African-American authors includes Toni Morrison, who has detailed the lives of black characters who struggle with identity amidst racism and hostility; Langston Hughes, a founder of the Harlem Renaissance; and Maya Angelou, who has eloquently chronicled various eras of her life through her autobiographies.
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AMERICAN LITERATURE | Encyclopedia Britannica American literature, the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a half, America was merely a group of colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard of the North American continent—colonies from which a few hardy souls tentatively ventured westward. This article traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century to the late 20th century. American literature at first was naturally a colonial literature, by authors who were Englishmen and who thought and wrote as such. Such writers acknowledged British allegiance, but others stressed the differences of opinion that spurred the colonists to leave their homeland. The utilitarian writings of the 17th century included biographies, treatises, accounts of voyages, and sermons.