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HIST 1111 & HIST 1112: World History: Additional Resources & Links

This guide will assist students with resources and materials about World History subject areas and topics.

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World Literature Today 

the University of Oklahoma's award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, is to serve the international, state, and university communities by achieving excellence as a literary publication, a sponsor of literary prizes, and a cultural center for students.

Professional Organizations

African Literature Association

The African Literature Association is an independent non-profit professional society open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. It exists primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists. 

The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL)

Australian Society of Authors 

The ASA is the professional organisation, community and voice of Australia's writers and illustrators. We provide advocacy, support and advice.

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW)

Rhetoric Society of America

Royal Society of Literature

American Society for the History of Rhetoric

The American Society for the History of Rhetoric was organized, in 1977, as the American Branch of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Its purpose is to foster the study of rhetoric in all historical periods in American as well as other cultures.

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)

International Comparative Literature Association

The International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)

Additional Resources & Links

The Institute for World Literature

The Institute for World Literature (IWL) has been created to explore the study of literature in a globalizing world. As we enter the twenty-first century, our understanding of “world literature” has expanded beyond the classic canon of European masterpieces and entered a far-reaching inquiry into the variety of the world’s literary cultures and their distinctive reflections and refractions of the political, economic, and religious forces sweeping the globe.

Words without Borders

Founded in 2003, Words Without Borders expands cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature. Our publications and programs open doors for readers of English around the world to the multiplicity of viewpoints, richness of experience, and literary perspective on world events offered by writers in other languages.

Top 100 works in World literature

The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the best and most central works in world literature.

Glossary of Poetic Terms 

(includes links to examples) (Robert G. Shubinski)

Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta's World Literature Website 

materials created and used by Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta in his teaching of world literature. All material in the site is copyrighted and may be used by others only for non-commercial, educational, teaching, and learning purposes, and only when accompanied by proper acknowledgement
of its author. © 2001-2005 by Fidel Fajardo-Acosta

Dictionary of Literary Terms

Provides short definitions for hundreds of literary terms.

Romantic Circles

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

The Literature Network

searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors.

VG/Voices from the Gaps 

Women Writers & Artists of Color

Bartleby
Provides full-text access to a variety of standard reference books, fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Bibliomania
This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Great Books and Classics
Contains the old classics such as Epic of Gilgamesh, Aesop, Aristophanes, Plato, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita, Hammurabi, Sun-Tzu, etc.

Loyal Books
Contains free public domain audio books and e-book downloads.