Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Jews, Arabic Speaking Settlements
Throughout their history, the vast majority of Jews have lived in large cities and market towns. They lived in neighborhoods that were largely Jewish, but in most cities they had neighbors who adhered to other religions. Preference was...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Fipa
The Fipa are a Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Tanzania in East-Central Africa. The name "Fipa" appears to have been bestowed on them by nineteenth-century traders and means "people of the escarpment." It was later adopted by...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Betsileo
The Betsileo (Bts) are one of approximately twenty "ethnies," or ethnic units, into which Madagascar divides its population. The Betsileo began to use that term for themselves after their conquest by the Merina in the nineteenth century....
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Akan
The Akan comprise a cluster of peoples living in southern and central Ghana and in southeastern Ivory Coast. They form a series of distinct kingdoms and share a common language, known as Twi, which has many dialects. Twi is a tonal...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Rolling on the River
Students will explore how westward expansion increased the number of jobs available in the nineteenth century, including being a flat boatman through a painting by George Caleb Bingham.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Inness in the Countryside
Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce young scholars to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Lunda
"Lunda" is the most widely used English term to refer to literally hundreds of social groups whose oral histories link them in varying ways to a far-flung empire that controlled trade and tribute in much of Central Africa from the...
Other
Ncas: A Comparison Between Tolstoy and Plato
"Art, Science, and Transcendence: A Comparison Between Tolstoy and Plato" is the full text of a scholarly article written by Dr. T.J. Kuijl. For serious students of Tolstoy.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Students and teachers will enjoy exploring the world of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life and work when they visit this site. This website features links to lesson plans, activities and more.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Shot/online Text and Story Notes
Barleby.com provides the online text version of Alexander Pushkin's short story "The Shot" plus a link to a short biography and a commentary on the story.
New York University
Nyu: The Double Two Versions
This site offers a succinct summary of the novel, along with some comments from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Fyodor Dostoevsky
This site presents an accurate account of the events in the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Also includes a bibliography of works by and about the author.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 3
The University of Virginia offers the etext of Volume 3 of Hugo's famous novel, divided by chapters.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 4
The University of Virginia offers volume 4 of Hugo's famous novel in HTML at this site, which is worth checking out on the subject.
Other
Tragic & Comic Visions in the Brothers Karamazov
This site features an article entitled "Tragic and Comic Visions in The Brothers Karamazov" written by contemporary author Joyce Carol Oates. The article originally appeared in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Winter 1968-1969.
Other
University of Otago: Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky
This site from the University of Otago contains the text of a scholarly essay written by English professor Robert Berry. The article originally appeared in Deep South, a publication of the English department at the University of Otago.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Study Guide for the Idiot
Written by students at Middlebury College, this study guide is a good resource for anyone interested in learning about Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Provides plot summaries, character analyses, and information on the historical background of...
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Papers on Dostoevsky
This site provides links to nine essays written by students at Middlebury College for a Spring 1996 course on Dostoevsky. The topics range from "Dostoevsky and Social Issues" to "Dostoevsky and the Theme of Children."
Other
First Descents Into the Inferno: Scholarly Essay
Contains the text of a scholarly article written by English professor Dr. Robert Berry. The article originally appeared in Deep South, a publication of the English department at the University of Otago.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Victor Hugo
Discover more about Victor Hugo's books "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables." This site provides links for lesson plans and activities for these two works.
Emory University
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Permanent Collection: Sub Saharan African Art
Image gallery featuring selections from the Carlos Museum's collection of nineteenth and twentieth century African art. Also includes descriptions of the art.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Christian Classics: "Crime and Punishment" (Full Text)
This provides the complete online text of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous novel, Crime and Punishment. The entire novel is presented on a single page, making it available for text and quote searching, as well as easily printable.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Leo Tolstoi
This site offers a very interesting account of the life of Russian author, Leo Tolstoy.
Other
Art Gallery of Nsw: Pissarro, the First Impressionist
The Art Gallery of New South Wales developed this website to accompany an exhibition of Pissarro mounted by the museum in late 2005. The site contains an interesting, although limited, mix of photographs of the artist and reproductions...
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