CONTENTS:

 

PART I
 

Raphael. The Parnassus

A Brief History of Western Literature   The Beginnings of Literature. Myths and Legends Classical Myth Myth and Mystery Bible Hebrew literature Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature. Greek theatre Ancient Greek literature. Philosophical prose Latin (Roman) literature Latin (Roman) Literature. The Silver Age Latin (Roman) Literature. Renaissance Modern Italian Literature The Middle Ages Literature The Middle Ages. Elizabethan England The Restoration The Rise of the Novel Cervantes and Spanish literature The Enlightenment Romanticism Classicism and Naturalism The 19th century - Prose The 20th century - Modernism The 20th century - The Political Novel

PART II

English literature The Old English period The early Middle English period The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods The Renaissance period: 1550–1660 Elizabethan and early Stuart drama Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose The Restoration The 18th century The 18th century. The novel The Romantic period The later Romantics The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras Late Victorian literature The 20th century. The Modernist revolution The literature of World War I and the interwar period Literature after 1945. Fiction. Poetry Literature after 1945. Drama. The 21st century

PART III

French literature The Middle Ages The 16th century The 17th century The 18th century to the Revolution of 1789 From 1789 to the mid-19th century 19th-century thought The 20th century. From 1900 to 1940 The mid-20th century. Approaching the 21st century

PART IV

German literature Origins and Middle Ages Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance The 18th century The 19th century The 19th century. Fin de siecle movements The 20th century

PART V

Russian literature Old Russian literature. (10th–17th centuries) The 18th century The 19th century The Silver Age. (From the 1890s to 1917) Post-Revolutionary literature Thaws and freezes

PART VI

American literature The 17th century The 18th century Early 19th-century literature From the Civil War to 1914 The 20th century. Writing from 1914 to 1945 The 20th century. After World War II

PART VII

Eastern Literature South Asian Literature Chinese Literature Japanese Literature Persian Literature Arabic Literature

PART VIII

Miscellanea   PRINTS AND POETRY The Story of Alphabets "Netherlandish Proverbs" Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder William Blake "The Book of Job" Thomas Rowlandson "Doctor Syntax" Max Ernst    "A Week of Kindness" (A surrealistic novel in collage) "HOKUSAI'S VIEWS OF MT. FUJI" with poems by Easley Stephen Jones "HIROSHIGE'S TOKAIDO" In Prints and Poetry Dreamland Japan "MANGA, JAPANESE COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS" "Basilisk" Manga by Masaki Segawa

PART IX

Dictionary