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Blindness, by José Saramago
Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago asks a simple question: What would happen if everyone went blind? This is the subject of Saramago's novel Blindness.
jose saramago • blindness • portuguese literature • european literature • nobel prize in literature

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
The 1897 play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," is written by Edmond Rostand in 1897 and based on a real life individual of the same name. The play covers a span of about 15 years.
edmond rostand • cyrano de bergerac • symbolism • french plays • european literature

Isaac Babel's My First Goose
Isaac Babel uses his personal experience as a soldier during Russia's civil war and revolution in his short story "My First Goose."
isaac babel • my first goose • european literature • russian literature • short fiction

An Introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic Sagas
The Icelandic sagas chronicle the Viking age in unique and starkly beautiful writing. The best Icelandic sagas feature colorful characters and exciting, violent stories.
famous icelandic sagas • viking literature history • old norse runes • egils saga • grettis saga

Mickiewicz’s Epic Poem Pan Tadeusz
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) was one of 19th century Poland's "Three Bards" who grew up in political turmoil. As a poet he was bound to express the unrest of his time.
adam mickiewicz • three bards • polish poetry • pan tadeusz • partition of poland

Unknown East Europe Literature
Why aren't great works of literature from Central European, Southeastern European, Eastern European, or the Baltic authors more familiar to the English-speaking audience?
eastern european literature • eastern european authors • eastern european books • soviet literature • authors of post-soviet europe

An Introduction to Grettis Saga Ásmundarsonar
The saga of Grettir the Strong is filled with adventure, magic, and humor. Its place in literary history has made Grettir Ásmundarson an Icelandic folk hero.
grettis saga ásmundarsonar • grettir the strong • icelandic sagas • greater outlawry • viking folk hero

War and Peace: Volume I, Part II
The second book of this epic Russian novel introduces the battle with French forces in Austria, revealing the chaos and humanity of war.
war and peace volume 1 part 2 summary • leo tolstoy's epic masterpiece • prince andrei bolkonsky • nicholas rostov • captain tushin

An Introduction to Egils Saga Skallagrímssonar
Egils saga is famous for its mercurial hero, historical sweep, and stark prose. Egill's remarkable life includes fighting bloody battles and composing terse poetry.
egils saga skallagrímssonar • medieval icelandic literature • viking history • kveld-úlfr • skalla-grímr

Leo Tolstoy Books and Biography
Tolstoy's fiction and non-fiction, such as "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", "Sevastopol Sketches", "Family Happiness", "Anna Karenina", and "A Confession", as autobiography.
leo tolstoy books • lev tolstoy biography • lev nikolayevich tolstoy • author of anna karenina • war and peace

French Novelist Marcel Proust, Wrote Swann's Way
Early 20th-century French novelist Marcel Proust composed Remembrance of Things Past, a seven-volume novel that changed the history of European Literature.
marcel proust • european literature • french literature • remembrance of things past • in search of lost time

Anna Karenina: Themes
The story of Levin, Kitty, Anna, Vronsky, Karenin, and Dolly, by one of the greatest Russian writers, is one of the world's most famous novels.
anna karenina themes • leo tolstoy • family happiness and god • levin and the peasants • vronsky and anna love affair

Kafka's Heroes
The works of Franz Kafka are unique in their blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary, creating worlds where everyday situations evolve into terrifying scenarios.
franz kafka • the metamorphosis • the trial • the castle • gregor samsa

Norse Mythology in the Prose Edda
The Prose Edda consists of a Prologue, the Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. It is a key surviving source of Norse mythology and the kennings of Viking poetry.
scandinavian norse mythology • norse gods origin • works of snorri sturluson • prose edda • egils saga

War & Peace: Volume II, Part IV
The Rostov's have a lavish hunt despite their finances; Nicholas refuses to marry for money but is prevented from marrying Sonya; Natasha continues to wait for Andrei.
leo tolstoy's epic novel • war and peace volume 2 part 4 summary • nicholai rostov and sonya kiss • rostov family fortune • otradnoe hunt

War and Peace: Volume I, Part III
Pierre and Marya are entangled in Prince Vassily's plot to marry his children for money; meanwhile, Prince Andrei and Nicholas Rostov fight in the Battle of Austerlitz
leo tolstoy's epic novel • war and peace volume 1 part 3 summary • pierre and prince vassily • prince andrei • princess marya and anatole

Anna Karenina: Plot
The adulterous and tragic affair of Anna and Count Vronsky is intertwined with the story of Levin and Kitty's love in one of the world's greatest novels.
anna karenina plot • leo tolstoy • world's greatest novels • levin • kitty

War and Peace: Volume II, Part III
While the Rostov family fortune declines, Vera is married to Berg and Natasha is courted by Boris and Prince Andrei. Pierre is upset by Natasha and Andrei's happiness.
leo tolstoy's epic novel • war and peace volume 2 part 3 • vera's marriage to berg • the rostov family fortune • speranski

The Trial, by Franz Kafka
In The Trial, Kafka creates a nightmarish world for Joseph K., one whose rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and where help comes from unexpected sources.
franz kafka • the trial • the trial by franz kafka • joseph k. • interpretation of kafka’s novel the trial

2008 Booker Shortlist Announced
This year's Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced this week. Just 6 final contenders now remain for the £50,000 prize, and there are some surprises amongst them.
booker prize • man booker prize • salman rushdie • sebastian barry • midnight's children

Love, Sex and Tragedy
This book addresses what makes each of us, and western societies collectively, what they are. Many modern cultural foundations are based on Greek and Roman philosophy.
love sex and tragedy • simon goldhill • ancient greece • ancient rome • victorian england

Book Review – Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems
For a very select audience, this documentation of 21 years of Seamus Heaney's poetry career will be an enjoyable and cathartic journey through Ireland and its culture.
new and selected poems 1966 to 1987 • ireland • irish • seamus • heaney

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is an endearing tale of Gregor who transforms into a gigantic insect. The physical transformation however merely reflects his inner state
the metamorphosis • franz kafka • gregor samsa • sister grete • gigantic vermin

Homer and His Two Epic Poems
Brief biography of ancient Greek poet Homer, known as author of two earliest European literature.
homer • homer and his epic poems • homer biography • homer's iliad • homer's odyssey

Literature Review – John Steinbeck, The Pearl
While John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" may not look like much, more akin to a novella in its short stature - it is a beautiful and emotionally resonating narrative.
john steinbeck the pearl • the pearl literature review • john steinbeck review • john steinbeck literature review • the song of the family

Mysticism
The article tends to link Mysticism with the preavious two articles. It goes on how mysticism has developed...
mysticism • sufism • tasawwuf

Review of Kafka Starring Jeremy Irons
Playful biopic mixing fact with fiction as the writer Franz Kafka investigates the death of a colleague.
kafka • kafka film • steven soderbergh • jeremy irons • prague

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love and fantasies which inextricably lead to the loss of identities of the characters.
william shakespeare • a midsummer night's dream • lysander • theme of love • hermia

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the most well-known and well-loved romance story of all times. Juliet's character provides the strongest influence in the play.
romeo and juliet • shakespeare • montague and capulet • forbidden love • capulet's traditional feast

Sociology – Robert Merton's Social Strain Theory
Strain theory is commonly discussed in criminology and sociology as well as other humanities in order to understand anomie, resistance of the status quo, and deviance.
robert k merton • robert merton strain theory • robert merton sociology • intro sociology deviance • sociology criminology

The Cathedral of Burgos (Spain)
Catedral de Santa María (Saint Mary Cathedral) in Burgos (Spain), declared Wold Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984. It is the only cathedral in Spain to be so designate
burgos • cathedral • spain • romanesque • gothic

The Hector / Achilles Dichotomy
Who is the real hero of Homer's Iliad? Most would automatically say Achilles, but it is Hector who possesses the heart of gold.
hector • achilles • the illiad • hector and achilles • hector vs. achilles

The International Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a classic American fantasy story, but Oz has become, popular worldwide, with many countries adapting it for TV, movies or the stage.
wizard of oz • 20th century oz • l. frank baum • aysecik • os trapalhoes and the wizard of oroz

The Nobel Prize in Literature
Authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Gunter Grass, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, William Butler Yeats, and Boris Pasternak are recognized.
the nobel prize in literature • nobel laureates • alfred nobel • literary award controversy and history • writer prize money

Werner Herzog's My Best Fiend
Herzog's relationship with Klaus Kinski is best described as tumultuous Their highs and lows on set together made for explosive behavior, but made for even better films.
klaus kinski and werner herzog • my best fiend werner herzog's film • klaus kinski and my best fiend • my best fiend the documentary • fitzcarraldo and klaus kinski

A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester is a fascinating tale detailing the Middle Ages. It talks about the painful transition of the Medieval to the Renaissance.
a world lit only by fire • william manchester • middle ages • the renaissance • greco-roman empire

Book Review: The Fate of the Mammoth
“This is not a book about mammoths,” begins Claudine Cohen intriguingly in The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History. Instead, this is a book about the history of paleontology and the role the mammoth has played in developing it as a science.
paleontology • geology • natural history • natural history museum • mammoth

Knights at the Opera, Part 1 - An Introduction
Many operas concern a period in history when European and Middle Eastern forces clashed: the time of the Crusades. This new series examines how knights are represented upon the opera stage, from the 17th-century King Arthur of Purcell to the late 20th-century Gawain by Birtwistle.
opera • crusade • crusades • age of chivalry • chivalry

Marcel Proust and Food
While himself subsisting on a diet of coffee and croissants, Marcel Proust saw food as revealing the hidden essence of reality and cooking as an art form.
marcel proust • in search of lost time • proust and food • eating and cooking in proust • food in search of lost time

Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul's Huzun
Orhan Pamuk, author of "My Name is Red", "Snow", "The White Castle", and "The Black Book", is Turkey's most prominent writer and a politically controversial figure.
orhan pamuk • istanbul • nobel prize for literature • my name is red • the white castle

Sex & Sadism in Phillip Roth's Sabbath's Theater
Published in 1995 Phillip Roth's Sabbath's Theater has been declared by some to be a masterpiece; others consider it to be obscene and controversial.
sabbath's theater • sex & sadism in sabbath's theater • themes in sabbath's theater • phillip roth • mickey sabbath character

Shakespeare's Leading Ladies – Ophelia & Juliet
William Shakespeare frequently titled his tragedies after the leading male role, but the leading female character may have a more important role in the genre of tragedy.
shakespeare's female characters • tragic female characters • role of women in tragedy • ophelia in hamlet • juliet in romeo & juliet

Star Trek's Earth, Alien, & Demigod Plot Clichés
Some dramatic devices occur again and again in Star Trek. Twentieth-century Earth, aliens saving the day, and troublesome demigods are common Star Trek plot clichés.
star trek plot clichés • dramatic devices • twentieth-century earth • enterprise • starfleet

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis opens with a jolt: "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin" (2747).
franz kafka • the metamorphosis • gregor samsa • interpretation of the metamorphosis • works by franz kafka

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