English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->Contemporary
General Resources->Course Syllabi

One of the study guides prepared by Professor Paul Brians of Washington State University. His website contains Course Materials including Study Guides to Various Works. From Science Fiction to World Literature in English of India, Africa, and the Caribbean works. More detailed works contents can be found at: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/guides_index.html. In particular, he posted study guides for the students who are taking his course and studying the works he is teaching. One of them is Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

On this site, Prof. Brian provides explanations, allusions, non-English words and phrases as well as chapter summaries and word explanations. Providing a thorough explication of the novel will help the interested reader but it is not a substitute for the reading of the book itself. Many links to other sites on the Web can be found. You can also download the guide in a pdf file.

URL : http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/

Keyword(s) : Contemporary British writer, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses, Study guide, Bibliography

General Resources->Course Syllabi
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->20th Century

This website collects materials prepared for a graduate seminar at the University of Alabama in Huntsville taught by Dr. Rose Norman. The site includes links to other Woolf websites, students' papers, bibliographies, and other relevant materials.
The category "About Virginia Woolf" contains a chronology of her life and works, and a link to Woolf’s psychiatric history site. "Works by Woolf" includes information about Mrs. Dalloway, Moments of Being, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, The Voyage Out, and The Waves. When you click the title of each work, you can find FAQ, plot outline, quotations, Woolfian comments, and a large bibliography on the work. Woolfiana contains various types of materials -texts, photos, projects, links to other websites - regarding Wolf.

Since the site is prepared for a seminar course and maintained by a university professor, the contents are academically relevant and useful. Although the coverage is limited to the works dealt with in the course, it is a good source for students to have a look at some concise and important points about the author and her major works, in an academic approach.

URL : http://www.uah.edu/woolf

Keyword(s) : Contemporary British Writer, Virginia Woolf, Seminar, Women authors Chronology, Modernism (Literature)

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->Others

This page is part of American Literature on the Web site, maintained by Akihito Ishikawa. The great merit is that it contains vast resources on ethnicities, multi-cultural resources. But its last update was September 18, 2000, and there are many pages not to be found.
Specifically, this page divides sections for African-American, Asian-American, Jewish-American, Native-American, Lalino/Latina and, in each section, there are many linking webpages ralating poetry, novel, drama short fiction, history and authors.

URL : http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/general/minority.htm

Keyword(s) : japan

General Resources->Libraries
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

Being a part of the homepage of the New York Public Library, this web site offers information about African American women writers of the 19th century. This site explain the 19th century in American African women literature as a formative period. This point of view is very remarkable because 19th century was the period that black people were forbidden to develope the ability to read and wrtie, and their literary works are not exposed much.
In this web site, there is a collection of 52 published works by black women writers that provides access to the perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. Useful and meaningful site.

URL : http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

Keyword(s) : african, woman,  writers,  19th century

General Resources->Libraries
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

This web site is the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) African American Writers Page. The ISLMC is a meta site which brings together resources for teachers, librarians, parents and students.
This page includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers. Users can get general information on Afrian American literature from 'Comprehensive Works' and also go to detailed links to each specific African American writer.

URL : http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm

Keyword(s) : african, text