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Researching Literary Topics


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Ingram Library Catalog What books do we have here? If we don't have it, try GIL Express

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Research Guide for English

Online Databases

GALE Literary Databases Contemporary Authors - Contemporary Literary Criticism - Dictionary of Literary Biography

JSTOR Full-text journal articles covering many fields including Language and Literature; includes literary criticism of short stories, plays, poems, poetry, and novels.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Very good for book & film reviews

Literary Reference Center Includes plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, full text of over 7,500 classic novels, author interviews, etc.

Literature Online Reference Edition Criticism and reference works for British and American poetry, drama and prose

Literature Resource Center Biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.

MLA International Bibliography The gold standard for literary criticism

NoveList Reviews, links to author websites, etc.

Oxford English Dictionary

Project Muse Full Text of over 220 journal titles from 37 scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, as well as others.

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Major Print Reference Resources in Ingram Library

(In the Reference Collection, 1st Floor)

Contemporary authors; a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general non-fiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields. Detroit, Gale Research. v. 1- 1962- Call Number: Z1224 .C6

Contemporary literary criticism. Detroit, Gale Research Co. 1973- Call Number: PN771 .C59

Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit, Gale Research. v. 1- 1978- Call Number: PN451 .D5X

Magill's literary annual. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Salem Press. 1977- Call Number: PN44 .M35


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