Literature Research Guide
Top Choice Databases
Other Database Options
Books
Selected Websites
TOP CHOICE Databases
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Literary Reference Center
Critical essays on contemporary authors.
Provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes, including plot summaries, literary criticism articles, author biographies, and the full text of literary journals, short poems, stories, novels, and author interviews.
MLA International Bibliography
Project MUSE, Arts and Humanities Collection
Published by the Modern Language Association, this database provides indexing and abstracting for a modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Full text of over 100 journals in classics, culture, education, film, performing arts, history, literature, religion, and theater.
OTHER Database OPTIONS
Return to topAcademic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of subjects.Alternative Press Index
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Locate citations in Arts and Humanities journals. 1980 to present.
Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information, including biographical and bibliographical information on about 100,000 authors.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Fiction Connection
Another multidisciplinary database that include the humanities.
A readers' advisory database which recommends titles similar to those you already enjoy and allows browsing titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe.
Granger's World of Poetry Online
Provides in-depth reference and research capabilities for poetry study. Includes biographies of poets and some full-text poems.International Index to the Performing Arts
JSTOR
All aspects of the performing arts from over 130 international periodicals. Includes some full text. Limited to one user at a time.
Complete full-text back issues of hundreds of core journals in the arts and sciences, including over 50 journals in the Language and Literature section.
Books
Start your research in the Reference Collection.
American Writers: a Collection of Literary Biographies [X] PS129 .A55
Black Literature Criticism [X] PS153 .N5 B556
Contemporary Authors [X] PN771 .C4
Contemporary Literary Criticism [X] PN771 .C59
Encyclopedia of the Novel [X] PN41 .E487 1998
Encyclopedia of American Poetry [X] PS323.5 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature [X] PN41 .E48 1998
Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature [X] PN56 .U8 S66 1995
Gay and Lesbian Literature [X] PN56 .H57 G36 1994
Latino and Latina Writers [X] PS153 .H56 L39 2004
Short Story Criticism [X] PN3373 .S56
Search the Library Catalog for other books on your topic. To find books by a certain author, search by Author (last name, first name); to find books about an author, search by Subject (last name, first name) and look for the subheading Criticism and interpretation. For example:
Walker, Alice, 1944 --Criticism and interpretation
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Selected Websites
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English)
Annotated guide to literature websites.Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures (other than English)
Links from African to Welsh literature websites.Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
Major Online Text Collections by Language
Links to texts by language and by subject.Literary Resources on the Net
A collection of links to websites dealing especially with English and American literature.
