Sandor Teszler Library
Course Guide for English 102
| | Sandor Teszler Library Course Guide for English 102 |
Professor Hitchmough--Spring 2008
| electronic resource | Cambridge Collections Online A collection of books with long scholarly essays, particularly on literature. There are companions to Nabokov, Poe, Crime Fiction, Science Fiction, and many other topics which would be useful for this class. |
| Ref. HQ 9 .E52 | International Encyclopedia of Marriage and
the Family. 4 vols. (2003) Includes long articles on topics related to families around the world, including an overview for different countries and cultures. Entries include lists of sources for further information. |
| Ref PS 261 .C55 | Companion to Southern Literature. (2002). A comprehensive overview of immigration in American life. Includes a general history of immigration from prehistory to the present. Specific articles explain in great detail who immigrants are, where they come from, where they settle, and how cultures and people blend. |
| Ref. PS 21 .M34 | Magill's
Survey of American
Literature. 2007. 6 volumes. A good, current biography of your author and a sense of what he/she was interested in and wrote. Also, it points to scholarly work on all the authors you're working on. |
| Ref. PN 3373 .S56 | Short
Story Criticism. 1988-present. 57 volumes. An index to criticism on short stories--which can often be a challenge to track down otherwise. Look up your story's title in the index and it will refer you to the right volume and page. Or you can look up an author and get references to critical articles in a variety of other sources. |
| Ref. PN 3373 .S3844 | Short
Stories for Students. Multivolume set (1997
- ). Provides a general overview and context for many short stories commonly studied by college students, but also specific critical articles and suggestions for further reading. Much of this material is also available in the Literature Resource Center. |
| e-book | A
Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English. (2001). Brief biographies, bibliographies, and critical essays on the work of major 20th century short story writers. |
These indexes are available from the Library webpage under Research Databases, or you can search for them by name in the library catalog.
Off-campus access: use the links under Databases A to Z rather than these.
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest database of full text information. It covers over 6,000 magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in all areas of study. Over 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. This database should always be your first stop if you need to find an article.
InfoTrac OneFile is another extremely large database of full text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Includes more popular titles than Academic Search Premier, which is useful for popular authors, and ones who are still writing.
JSTOR does depth rather than breadth. It covers all of the best journals in the areas it covers, primarily literature and history.
Literature Resource Center Database for literary research including biographical articles, full text literary criticism, current journal articles and links to valuable web sites. Includes full text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selections from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other print reference sources.
MLA International Bibliography An index to thousands of journals in all areas of literary research, from 1969 to the present. There are some full-text articles linked from here, but this is primarily a list of materials (books and articles) available in other sources.
Internet
Public Library Literary Criticism
Links to scholarly pages selected by librarians. Arranged by author,
nationality, and time period. This is a good example of a place to
start a scholarly web search.
Zora Neale Hurston
(official webpage)
Includes a bibliography and a list of interviews, which can often be
good sources for a modern author.
| In-Person Any library staff member can help you. However, reference librarians are available at the Reference Desk (just to the right as you enter the library) during the following hours:
| Phone On-campus: 4302 Off-campus: (864) 597-4302 Email
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