Literary Resources -- Other National Literatures

• Mailing lists
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview (Brown) -- An extensive collection of information on postcolonial literature and theory. Very impressive.
• European Literature -- Electronic Texts (Virginia) -- Extensive catalogue of Western European literature.
• Western European Specialists (Virginia) -- Big meta-index on Western European literature and culture.
• Australian and New Zealander:
  • Larrikin's Lair: Australian Literature -- A fan's attempt to increase the visibilty of serious Australian authors.
  • Aurora Australis -- A guide to contemporary Australian literature, including Peter Carey, Helen Garner, Elizabeth Jolley, Robert Drewe, Marion Halligan, Robert Dessaix, Brian Castro, Carmel Bird, Richard Flanagan, David Foster, Marele Day, Delia Falconer, and Roberta Sykes.
  • OzLit -- An extensive fan site on Australian literature. A section on "Research" may be useful to students.
  • SETIS Australian Literature Database (Univ. of Sydney Library) -- 19th- and 20th-c. Australian texts in TEI.
  • Zoetropes: New Zealand Literature
  • Peter Carey Website (Rebecca J. Vaughan, Flinders Univ.) -- Brief biography, extensive bibliography, plot synopses, links, and other materials.
  • Garry Disher (Ioana Petrescu, Flinders Univ.) -- Biography, bibliography, synopses, and links.
  • Amy Witting Website (Yvonne Miels, Flinders Univ.) -- Biography, primary bibliography, synopses, selective secondary bibliography, and links.
• Canadian and Commonwealth:
  • Commonwealth Institute -- Literature Library -- Information on the library and its collection.
  • The Canadian Literature Archive (St. John's and Manitoba) -- An extensive "repository for information about Canadian writers, Canadian novelists, Canadian poets, Canadian playwrights, Canadian essayists, Canadian literary organizations, Canadian magazines, Canadian publications, Canadian books, Canadian texts and Canadian library archives."
  • Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) -- Information on the Association and some links.
  • Earle Birney Page -- Introduction to Birney's writing.
• Dutch:
  • Dutch literature (Laurens Jansz. Coster) -- Extensive set of links to information on Dutch authors. Requires frames.
• French (and Francophone):
  • ARTFL Project (Mark Olsen, Chicago) -- Master index of scholarly French resources on the Web. O si sic omnes!
  • Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links (UTM) -- Very good meta-page of French resources, sporting 7,000 links.
  • Association des Bibliophiles Universels -- A collection of French-language electronic texts.
  • Gopheur Litteratures (Univ. of Montreal) -- Now mostly obsolete.
  • Robert Desnos -- Bibliography, E-texts, links. In French. Irritatingly commercial.
  • Introduction to the Francophone Literature of the Maghreb (Richard Aadnani, Debbie Folardo, and Michael Toler) -- Good collection of material and links on the literature of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
• German:
  • 19th-century German Lit (Robert Godwin-Jones, VCU) -- A few hypertext editions of 19th-c. German stories and fairy tales.
  • Dichterhandschriften des Poetischen Realismus: Ortsverzeichnis (Richard Hacken and Marianne Siegmund, BYU) -- Big collection of links on 19th-c. German authors.
• Indian:
  • Salman Rushdie:
    • Salman Rushdie (Subir Grewal) -- A useful overview of Rushdie's publications, with brief commentary. Includes links to interviews, bibliographies, and other sites. Well done.
    • Salman Rushdie: An Overview (Brown) -- Collaborative project on postcolonial writers includes this incomplete and not always scholarly overview of Rushdie's life, works, and contexts.
    • Notes on Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (Paul Brians, WashingtonState) -- An impressive study guide to The Satanic Verses, with links to other Rushdie sites.
• Irish:
  • Select Irish Writings on the Internet (B. Ward, Carleton) -- A handful of annotated links.
  • Irish Literary Sources and Resources (Michael Sundermeier, Creighton) -- Miscellaneous resources on Irish literature and culture from prehistory through Joyce.
  • Views of the Famine (Steve Taylor, Vassar) -- Illustrated contemporary materials on the Great Famine.
• Italian:
  • Italian literature in HTML
  • Online Literature in Italian
  • Italian texts at Milan
  • Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (Chicago) -- Searchable database of 1,300 early Italian texts. Free in 1998; a subscription fee will be required later. ARTFL subscribers receive it for no extra charge.
• Japanese:
  • Japanese Literature (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- very extensive list of links on Japanese literature and culture.
  • Japanese Text Initiative (Virginia) -- "A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web." Includes more than a dozen texts.
• Lithuanian:
  • Lithuanian Poetry -- Poems (in English) by dozens of Lithuanian authors.
• Norwegian:
  • The Ormulum Project (Norway) -- A scholarly edition of the Ormulum.
• Portuguese:
  • Luso-Brasilian Literature and Culture (Niedja Fedrigo, Michigan) -- A very extensive link collection.
• Russian and Slavic:
  • American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (Pitt) -- Includes links on Croatian, Polish, Russian, Ukranian, Czech, and Serbian literature.
• Scandinavian:
  • Danske digtere i det 20. århundrede (Odense Universitet) -- Extensive archive of biographical information on 20th-c. Danish poets. In Danish.
  • Project Runeberg (Sweden)
• Spanish Language:
  • Literature in Latin America -- LANIC (Texas) -- Partially annotated link collection.
  • PhiloBiblon (Berkeley) -- "A project to construct a bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula."
  • Literatura Argentina Contemporánea (UMN) -- Very stylish guide to modern Argintinian literature.
  • COMEDIA Homepage: Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (Arizona) -- Clearinghouse for information on classic-age Spanish theatre.
  • Wilson Harris (Hena Maes-Jelinek) -- Biography and very extensive bibliography of the Guyanese author. Requires frames.
• Turkish:
  • Turkish Poetry Home Page (UMD) -- Miscellaneous resources on Turkish poetry, some translated, some not.
• Welsh:
  • Welsh Authors (Chris Grooms, CCCCD) -- A few dozen Welsh texts, heavily annotated for those learning the language.
• General Asian:
  • Books by and about South Asian Women (UMD) -- Suggested readings, with lists of primary texts.
  • SASIALIT: Literature of South Asia and the Indian Diaspora (Rice) -- Information on the mailing list.