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Literary Analysis Professor Campbell Fall 2006 Choose one Reference Works Books Articles Articles - Starting Points Articles - Core Resources Articles - Other Databases RefWorks Tips & Further Help Reference Works Books Articles Starting Points Core Resources for English Print Sources Online Sources Other Resources RefWorks Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works General Guides | Critical Theory | Works About Specific Authors General Guides The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Ian Ousby. Rev. ed. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993. Reference R 928 C178 The Columbia Guide to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Ed. Blanche H. Gelfant. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2000. Reference R 813 C726 The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer. New York: Continuum, 2003. Reference R 820.3 C762 The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Ed. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2002. Reference R 810.9 C737 A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms. Edward Quinn. New York: Facts on File, 1999. Reference R 803 Q7d A Dictionary of Literary Devices. Bernard Dupriez. Trans. Albert W. Halsall. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1991. Reference R 803 D943g-T Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs. Ed. Jean-Charles Seigneuret et al. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood, 1988. Reference R 803 D5541 A Handbook to Literature. William Harmon. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. Reference R 803 H747h9 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993. Reference R 809.1 P957 1993 Oxford Companions The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Ed. James D. Hart. 6th ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. Reference R 810.3 O98c6 The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. Eugene Benson and William Toye. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. Reference R 810.3 O981 1997 The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble. 6th ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. Reference R 820.3 H34o6 The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Welch. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996. Reference R 820.9 O981 The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Ed. Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. Reference R 820.3 O981 The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Ed. Jenny Stringer. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996. Reference R 820.3 O98 The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan. 5 vols. New York: Oxford, 2006. Reference R 820.3 O982 The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices. William Packard. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Reference R 803 P119p Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary: A Compendium to More than 500 Literary, Critical, and Theatrical Movements. Ed. Helene Anderson and Jay P. Pederson. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000. Reference R 809.9 T971 Critical Theory The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. Reference R 801.95 M975b Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography. Donald G. Marshall. New York: Modern Language Association, 1993. Reference R 016.8 M367c The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. New York: Continuum, 2002. Reference R 801.95 C762 A Dictionary of Critical Theory. Leonard Orr. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991. Reference R 801.95 O75d Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. J.A. Cuddon. 4th ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Reference R 803 C964d4 Dictionary of Narratology. Gerald Prince. Rev. ed. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2003. Reference R 801.95 P995d 2003 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Ed. Irene R. Makaryk. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1993. Reference R 801 E56 Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Ed. Lorraine Code. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reference R 305.42 E56 Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism. Ed. Chris Murray. New ed. 2 vols. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. Reference R 801.95 E56 A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. Jeremy Hawthorne. 4th ed. London: Arnold, 2000. Reference R 801.95 H399g4 The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden et al. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005. Reference R 801.95 J65 2005 The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory. David Macey. New York: Penguin, 2000. Reference R 801.95 M142p Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Ed. Larry McCaffery. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. Reference R 809.3 P858 The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and PostFeminism. Ed. Sarah Gamble. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reference R 305.42 R869 Works About Specific Authors & Works American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002. Reference R 920.073 A512 American Writers. Ed. Leonard Unger. New York: Scribner, 1974- . Reference R 810.9 A512 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . British Writers. Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner, 1979- . Reference R 920.9 B8621 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Contemporary Authors. Gale: 2000- . The E.H. Little Library also has copies of the print volumes from 1967-2003; they are shelved in Reference at call number R 928 C76. Contemporary Novelists. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. 7th ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2001. Reference R 823.09 C7611 2001 Critical Survey of Drama. Ed. Carl Rollyson. 2nd rev. ed. 8 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003. Reference R 809.2 C934 Critical Survey of Poetry. Ed. Philip Jason. 2nd rev. ed. 8 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003. Reference R 809.1 C934 Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Ed. Charles E. May. 2nd rev. ed. 7 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2001. Reference R 809.3 C934 2001 Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978- . Reference R 928.1 D554 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Eric L. Haralson. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. Reference R 928.1 E561 Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2005. Reference R 820.9 E561 2005 Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Steven R. Serafin. 5 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999. Reference R 803 E562 1999 Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1996. Reference R 928 F3291 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Reference R 920 N2111 See also the first edition: Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (22 vols.; 1885-1901; reprinted London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963-1965), shelved in Reference at call number R 920 N211. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan. 5 vols. New York: Oxford, 2006. Reference R 820.3 O982 Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Ed. Larry McCaffery. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. Reference R 809.3 P858 A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English. Ed. Erin Fallon et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. Reference R 809.3 R286 Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1999. Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003. Reference R 809 R332 Tennessee Williams The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams: A Reference Guide. John S. McCann. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1983. Reference R 016.81 W727m Tennessee Williams, A Bibliography. Drewey Wayne Gunn. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1991. Reference R 016.81 W727g Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700) Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To print more than one page of a document, you need to "Mark All" pages, view your "Marked List," and then download the document images (not the citation). Once the document is downloaded, you can print out a range of pages or the entire document using the print function in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800) Includes the full text of 150,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. Note: The Library Catalogue contains records, with hotlinks to full text in ECCO, for 136,000 of these titles. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Articles Starting Points | Core Resources for English | Other Resources Starting Points Academic Search Premier (1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Periodicals Index Online (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Core Resources for English Print Sources | Online Sources Print Sources Be sure to look for published bibliographies as well; you can often find bibliographies listed in the Library Catalogue and WorldCat. Do a subject search for the name of a literary author and then add the word "bibliography." American Short Fiction Criticism and Scholarship, 1959-1977: A Checklist. Joe Weixlmann. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1982. Reference R 016.81 W436a Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL). Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1924 - . Reference R 016.82 M689a Indexes journal articles and books published from 1920 to present; also includes citations to book reviews. ABELL is particularly good source of information about books published in the U.K. Many of these works do not appear in the MLAIB. Gale Literary Criticism Titles Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1984- . Reference R 822.33 DS5275 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1981- . Reference R 809.03 N714 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978- . Reference R 809.04 T971 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1973- . Reference R 809.04 C761 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Short Story Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1988- . Reference R 809 S559 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Rev. Martin Tucker. New York: Ungar, 1966. Reference R 820.9 M92L1 New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1985-1990. Reference R 809 C5162 The Major Author's Edition of the New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1985- . Reference R 809 C5163 Twentieth-Century American Literature. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1985-1988. Reference R 809 C5166 Poetry Explication Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present. Joseph Marshall Kuntz. Rev. ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980. Reference R 016.82 K96p3 Guide to Poetry Explication. Nancy C. Martinez and Joseph G.R. Martinez. 4 vols. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991-1995. Reference R 016.82 M385g Short Fiction Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of Stories and Novelettes (American, British, Continental) 1800-1958. Jarvis Thurston et al. Denver, CO: Alan Swallow, 1960. Reference R 016.8 T54s Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication. Comp. Warren S. Walker. Hamden, CT: Shoestring Press, 1977- . Reference R016.8 W186t Includes supplements. Online Sources MLA International Bibliography (1926 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. For more information, see the MLAIB Search Planner. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Other Resources America: History and Life & Historical Abstracts (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.) Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Essay & General Literature Index Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (1971 to present) Includes citations to articles, books, theatrical productions, and audiovisual materials related to Shakespeare; also includes performance reviews, books reviews, and film reviews. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Using RefWorks Need help managing your references? Try RefWorks! You can use it to organize your citations, keep track of your notes on books and articles, and generate bibliographies. Find out more; consult our guide on Using RefWorks. Connect to RefWorks Tips & Further Help How to Find Book Reviews How to Find Theatre Reviews How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources MLA International Bibliography Search Planner (pdf document) Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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