Literary Research

Follow this path to resources related to Literary Criticism and Literary Biography...

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1. As always, determine your keywords.
2. OPAC... do a power search in the Media Center for books.
3. Ms. Gibson's print picks:

• REF 822.3 SHA Shakespeare for Students
• REF 822.3 SHA Shakespeare's Characters for Students
• REF 822.3 SHA Shakespearean Criticism
• REF 809 COO Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature
• REF 822.3 SHA Shakespeare's World and Work
• REF 909.07 MID The Middle Ages
• REF 940.2 REN Renaissance and Reformation
• REF 920 KNI Middle Ages
• REF 809 CLA Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
• REF 809 WOR World Literature Criticism
• REF 820.9 BRI British Writers
• REF 809 HOW Characters in 20th Century Literature
• REF 809 CON Contemporary Literature Criticism
• REF 809 EUR European Writers
• REF 810.9 AME American Writers
• REF 810 AME American Writers Classics
• 810.7 SAT Satire
• 920 LIT Lterary Lifelines
• 808.83 BRO Literary Topics, Vol. 5: Magic Realism
• 809 MAD Literary Topics, Vol. 9: Chinese American Writers
• 808.83 BRO Literary Topics, Vol. 8: Existential Fiction
• 822 REA Readings on The Importance of Being Earnest
• 822.8 WIL The Importance of Being Earnest and other Plays
• 823 JAN Jane Austen
• 823 REA Readings on Pride and Prejudice
• 829 REA Readings on Beowulf
• 829 STR Understanding Beowulf
• 821 REA Readings on The Canterbury Tales
• 809 REN Renaissance Literature
• 821 WOR Selected Poetry of Williams Wordsworth
• 821 WIL William Wordsworth
• 811 REA REadings on Walt Whitman
• 821 ENG English Romantic Poetry
• 820.9 KIN The Romantics
• 821 JOH John Keats
• 821.7 PER Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 823 GEO Bloom's Guides: 1984
• 828 BRU Student Companion to George Orwell
• 813 AMY Amy Tan
• 813 LES Understanding Zora N. Hursoton's Their Eyes Were Watching God
• 823 TEA Understanding Jane Eyre
• 823 THA Student Companion to Charlotte & Emily Bronte
• 792 FOR Shakespeare's Globe
• 822.3 CAH The Plays of Shakespeare, a Thematic Guide
• 792.9 ODE Shakespearean Characterization
• 822.3 FAL A Theatregoer's Guide to Shakespear's Themes
• 822 ELI Elizabethan Drama
• 822.3 BEL Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism
• 809.1 BLO How to Read and Why

4. Online Subscription Databases:
Use the * for Lit Crit!

• *Bloom's Literary Reference Online
• *Literature Resource Center
• *Literary Reference Center
  from the Public Library... you will need your library card #
• Student Resource Center Gold
• NoveList
  from the Public Library... you will need your library card #
• Thomson Gale's Literary Index
  index to finding your topic in most of our Reference books
• Biography Resource Center
  from the Public Library... you will need our library card #

5. Book Reviews:

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Amazon.com's book search
  use editorial reviews
• Barnes & Noble
• Bookspot.com's Book Reviews
• eserver Fiction: Criticism
• The New York Review of Books

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