English Language and Literature Subject Guide
Article Databases
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Literature Resource Center Full-text biographies, critical essays and reviews, poems, short stories and plays of more than 130,000 international authors. This database contains the full content of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and selections from Children's Literature Review, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and 11 other literary criticism series. Database has export features for Refworks, Endotes and Procite.
Literature Criticism Online This database represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Children's Literature Review. This database has a personal folder option where you can save articles for future use. This database can be cross searched with the database Something About the Author here.
Literature Online (LION) A full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites. This database has a personal folder option where you can save articles. This database also has a citation export feature into Refworks, and Endnotes. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year. Has citation tools for Refworks, Endotes and Procite. It also has a personal folder option to save articles and citations.
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
JSTOR Full-text access to selected scholarly journals in a number of humanities and social sciences disciplines. Search by individual title or in the whole collection. This database contains only back issues and does not include issues of the most recent 3 to 5 years.
Project Muse Project MUSE offers nearly 250 journal titles from some 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, economics, and others.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Excerpts from Literary Criticism
Each of these sets of books carefully excerpts key passages of literary criticism published in books, journals, magazines, and other sources. The Libraries may own the original publication from which the excerpt is selected and which you may want to consult. Use the most recent volume as an index to the whole set to locate the volume or volumes that may have commentary on the author or work of interest.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
PN 771 .C59 (Ref) 1973-present
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
PN 771 .T85x (Ref) 1978-present
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
PN 761 .N5 (Ref) 1981-present
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Indexes and abstracts all aspects of language study including linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as speech pathology. About 1,500 English and foreign language sources are indexed. Coverage: 1973-present. Updated monthly.
Readers' Guide Retrospective Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Some of these periodicals published short stories and book reviews.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref.) 1904-98
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Nineteenth-Century Masterfile An index to over 8 million articles from popular and scholarly journals published between 1802 and 1906. Based on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the Masterfile adds periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. and U.K. government documents, and U.S. patents not found in the old print index.
International Medieval Bibliography An index to articles in journals and other publications about Europe, the Middle East and North Africa within the dates 400-1500 AD. Coverage: 1967-present. To search, click Enter Databases, then click on the link to the database.
Print: Z 6203 .I62x (Ref) 1967-2004
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ERIC The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial
Librarian's Comment: Complete coverage is also given to descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as audiology, laryngology, otology, and speech pathology. There is some overlap with the MLA Bibliography and the Web of Knowledge.