Subject Guide: Literature

Discusses allegorical readings from a broad perspective that bridges the usual East/West cultural divide and examines their social and political implications.

Guide to nearly 800 award-winning historical fiction for Kindergarten through 8th grade will assist all parties in the selection of high quality literature.

Reading guide and selection tool for 12,000 fiction and nonfiction teen titles published from 2001 to 2003

Covers over 14,000 titles of some classics, but mostly published between late 1999 and 2003.

Argue for literature as a universal human endeavor rather than one defined and limited by national boundaries.

Study of the Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku who combined western and Japanese religious, theological and philosophical thought.

Introduces nearly 90 of the world's most entertaining classic books.

Traces the Indian English novel from its 19th-century colonial origins to the turn of the twenty-first century, with each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment.

Covers important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations and the relationship between world literature and film.

Examines plays by Black and Asian women in Britain.

Covers poetry from over 40 countries and the history of poetry from antiquity to the 21st century.

John Updike's 6th collection of literary biographies and essays on various topics.

Uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

Comprehensive guide to the literary works, writers, concepts, and terms of the era spanning the years 500 to 1500 from Europe, China, India, Japan, the Islamic world, and elsewhere.

Comprehensive information about the literary works, writers, and concepts of literature from approximately 1500 to 1660 CE in Europe, China, India, Japan, the Islamic world, and the Jewish diaspora, the New World, Africa, and Oceania.

Excerpts more than 200 feminist primary source documents from Africa to Asia to the Americas to Australia.

Evaluates Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Mark Twain, and Ralph Ellison from an orthodox Christian perspective.

Presents biographies and thematic entries on American writers selected because of their ethnicity.

A comprehensive narrative history of Korean literature.

Presents career biographies and criticism of Japanese writers from between 1868-1945.

Presents career biographies and criticism of Japanese writers since World War II.

Presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically, and of all the major verse forms.

Provides an overview of the main themes, issues, and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures.

Gives analysis and criticism on recent novels and other works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Paints a picture of the Russia through its most important literary sites, including the works of Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pushkin, and Mayakovsky.

Examines eight contemporary novels from eight cultures.

Profiles the censorship of many essential works of literature.

Examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of the poet Maximilian Voloshin.

Contains 24 essays about writers whose work touched on Japanese youth in the closing decades of the 20th century.

Tells how classic literature inspired Christian authors.

Reviews and evaluates picturebooks with a multicultural theme for grades K-4.

Features authors from various countries and cultures who have lived in a culture other than their own and written about their experiences.

Poems written by the South Indian Srivaisnava philosopher and saint-poet Venkatesa.

Compares the writings of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

Includes the work of more than 130 poets-from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present-and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world.

Analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world.

Analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin.

Examines how six female authors employed images of daily life to depict women's experience in Russian culture from the 1960s to the present.

Each chapter is devoted to a particular novel and provides a plot summary, an overview of the work's historical background, a literary analysis, and suggestions for further reading.

Provides some of the cultural context that readers need to know in order to understand medieval literature, such as the religious orientation of the people.

Tells of 13 screenwriters who are internationally renowned and respected for their skill at delineating plot and capturing character make them.

Looks at history as seen through the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang family

Addresses the ways literature and theory have engaged with literary criticism, philosophy, and history and related concerns.

Anthology of the final works of great poets.

Argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism.

Tests readers' knowledge of classic and contemporary literature.

Presents a bite-sized piece of literary history that looks at the origins and composition of 50 well-known pieces of literature.

Helps students and researchers make connections between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves.

Sshows how both modernist and postcolonial writers borrowed metaphors and concepts from geography, advancing theories of space, culture, and community within the formal structures of literary narrative.

Reference on the lives and works of 70 Asian American novelists.

Profiles 49 short story writers mostly from the second half of the 20th century.

Comprehensive study of the modern American novel.

Traces American writers whose roots are in all parts of Asia, including China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and others.

More than 270 alphabetically arranged entries survey the lives and works of Asian American authors and give extensive attention to the historical and social contexts surrounding their writings.

Explores a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature.