Literature
Page Author: Sarah Cohen
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- 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.
Search Multiple Literature Databases
(Includes Contemporary Authors, JSTOR, Literary Reference Center, Project Muse and book catalog.)
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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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