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Literature Resources
- 20th Century American Poetry -
This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound,
William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. The majority of the poems included are copyright works specially licensed from print publishers such as New Edition, City Lights Books, Houghton Mifflin, W. W. Norton and Yale University Press. The collection reflects the variety and dynamism of American poetic voices in this century of change: all major movements and schools are represented, form the traditionalism of Robert Frost to the modernism of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), the confessional poetry of Anne Sexton to the proletarian poems of Muriel Rukeyser. The Imagists, Beat Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain and Deep Image schools are all featured. In addition, many contemporary writers of the 1980s and 90s who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or inclusion within leading print anthologies, are also represented .
- 20th Century English Poetry -Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Authors include the established and canonical such as Yeats, Housman, Lawrence, Sassoon, Eliot, Plath, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, popular and accessible figures such as Kipling, Betjeman and Wendy Cope, lesser known but important names like William Empson and W.S. Graham and, among prominent contemporaries, Simon Armitage, Eavan Boland and Carol Ann Duffy. Many of the major themes of 20th century writing -- nationality, politics, war, sexuality, religion and gender -- can be understood anew through this vast and representative collection.
Literature Resource Center - Includes access to Gale's Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary Index, as well as literature resources published by Twayne and Scribner. Database is searchable by author, title, keyword, and other criteria such as nationality, genre, theme, and literary movement. Includes information on authors from the U.S., England, and other parts of the world.
Three Gale reference resources in literature:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Contemporary Authors
- JSTOR - Full-image database of articles in major academic journals, with an important difference: backfiles may go back to 1900 or earlier, but the current articles are always excluded, usually for three to five years. A subject category must be chosen and the search button at the bottom of the form clicked to perform a search. The subject categories include African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, Geography, History, History of Science, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. The list of journals in each subject is short but highly selective. Printing from JSTOR can be complicated. If you try to print when the article text is onscreen, it will print only one page at a time. It is better to return to the citation and click the Print option, and then follow the instructions. This will lead to a PDF window which is printable on all library computers.
- Project Muse - A selective full text database of nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Dates of coverage are variable - few journals go back farther than 1995. Project MUSE is often complementary with JSTOR (above) in that it provides text and image of current articles in journals for which JSTOR has the backfiles.
- American Periodical Series (APS Online) - Full-text of magazines and journals from the 17th and 18th centuries, including such publications as Godey's Lady's Book (1848-1854) and publications of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1785-1906).
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Over 125,000 publications ca. 1475-1700, ranging "from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spencer and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War . . ."
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
- ProQuest Research Library - A general-topics database which might be worth searching for information about recent, popular authors. It might likewise be worth searching Academic Search Complete for the same reason.
- Twayne's Authors Series - The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors .
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- MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliographies - The most comprehensive database for resources on literature worldwide. Includes bibliographic citations to dissertations, articles in journals, and book chapters. Especially useful for criticism, as well as resources in Spanish and languages other than English.
- Electronic Collections On-line - a FirstSearch database with broad topic coverage useful for locating citations to literature and literary criticism.
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The following resources are only suggestions to get you started. There are many additional print resources in the field of literature! Please ask at Reference for suggestions.
The Gale series includes a number of resources not available on-line, but which are in print in the Reference section. Included are the following:
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Ref PN771 .G27
- Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) - Ref PN761 .N56
- Shakespearean Criticism - Ref PR2965 .S43
- Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 - Ref PN86 .L53
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism - Ref PN681.5 .C57
- Drama Criticism - Ref PN1601 .D59
- Poetry Criticism - Ref PN1010 .P499
- Short Story Criticism - Ref PN3373 .S386
- Something About the Author (SATA) - Ref Z1224 .C55 (focus on authors of juvenile and young adult books)
- Hispanic Literature Criticism - Ref PQ7081.A1 H573 1994
Additional resources useful to students of Spanish literature are:
- Latin American Writers - Ref PQ7081.A1 L32 1989
- Diccionario de literatura española - Ref PQ6006 .D5 1972
- Modern Latin American Literature - Ref PQ7081 .F63 1975
- Libros y autores modernos, siglos XVIII y XIX - General collection, 3rd floor PQ6068 .B3 1964
- Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature - Ref PQ 7081.A1 E56 1997
Resources in American literature are found at the LC call numbers PS, English literature at PR, and PQ for Spanish literature--specifically PQ6006 for literature of Spain and PQ7081 for Latin American literature (all on the 3rd floor). Although some juvenile/young adult books are integrated into the general collection, most will be located in the Juvenile Section on the second floor.
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In the future, we hope to create specific subject pages for literature in English, literature in Spanish, and Juvenile Literature.
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