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Literature

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Literature

Page Author: Sarah Cohen

 


 

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NOTE: Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia can help you familiarize yourself with a subject, but are not considered appropriate, citeable sources for a college-level research paper.

 

  • Print Sources in the Reference Section of the Library:
    • Dictionary of Literary Terms
    • Literary Movements
    • Reference guide to world literature  
    • Columbia Grangers Index to Poetry 
    • Cambridge History of American Theatre
    • British Writers
    • American Writers
    • Oxford Companions to...American Literature, American Theatre, Canadian Literature, Children's Literature, Classical Literature, English Literature, Fairy Tales, Irish Literature, Shakespeare.
    • Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry.
    • Oxford English Dictionary

 

Find Books and E-Books

P: Linguistics, the study of lanugage

PA: Classical Philology (Greek and Latin)

PB: Modern European Languages, Celtic Languages

PC: Romance Languages

PD: Old Germanic and Scandanavian Languages

PE: English Language

PF: Dutch, Flemish, and German Languages

PJ-PL: Oriental Languages

PQ: Romance Literature

PR: English Literature

PS: American Literature

PT: German Literature

PZ: Children's Literature

 

Find Key Databases

  • Literary Reference Center: Extensive and comprehensive.  Authors and their works; plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; literary criticism; literary journals; book reviews; poems; short stories; author interviews; images of literary figures, and more.
  • Contemporary Authors: Current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. Includes author-provided updates, expanded entries, bibliographies, awards, and recent update information.
  • J-Stor: Full text access to back volumes of core scholarly journals in a broad range of disciplines within the arts, humanities, including both interdisciplinary and discipline-specific journals. Coverage usually begins very early, including some prior to 1900, and ends two to five years prior to present.
  • Oxford English Dictionary:  Online version of the OED.
  • Project Muse: Full-text online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
  • Humanities International Complete: Full text for over 2,000 titles includings journals, books, and other sources.

 

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Key Journals Available in the Library

  • American Literature
  • Issues in Writing
  • College English
  • New York Review of Books

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