Sandor Teszler Library
Course Guide for English 102
| Sandor Teszler Library Course Guide for English 102 |
Professor Trakas--Spring 2008
| Ref E 169 .M45 | The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition through World War II. (1995). Short essays on aspects of daily life, including Prohibition, crime, clothing & fashion, radio, music & dance. Several timelines in the back refer to events year by year, including popular music and books. An excellent source for the slang of the time. |
| Ref E 174.5 .A463 | Modern
America 1914 to 1945.
(1995). Statistics and discussions of major themes in American life. Population, weather, the economy, politics, education, art, entertainment. Includes profiles of states, cities, and famous or influential Americans. Includes a lengthy list of events in American history and culture which runs almost day by day for thirty years. |
| Ref. GT 31 .G74 | Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
volume 6, The Modern World.
(2004) Volume 6, The Modern World, covers all aspects of, well, daily life: food, work, music, politics, science. An interesting angle is that each section covers several countries and time periods so it's easy to compare, say, daily life in America in the 20's with daily life in Russia in the 20's. Just look up the subject you're interested in and look for the section on the United States 1920-1939. |
| Ref E 169.1 .S764 | St.
James Encyclopedia
of Popular Culture. (2000). Very detailed, scholarly discussions of American pop culture, from Mary Poppins to Iggy Pop and ballet to pro football. Signed articles with suggestions for further reading. A Time-Frame index in the back lets you quickly look, for example, at all of the articles on things from the 20's like jazz and flappers and Prohibition. |
| E-book | Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald A series of long essays (15-25 p) on Fitzgerald on topics like Fitzgerald and Hollywood, Women in Fitzgerald's Fiction. See also the Cambridge Companion to Hemingway. |
| Ref. PS 3511 .I9 Z459 |
F. Scott
Fitzgerald A to Z.
(1997). Covers Fitzgerald's life, works, and context. A categorical appendix breaks down the entries by subject (characters, people, places, publications, titles, etc.). There is also an exhaustive list of everything he and Zelda ever wrote, including screenplays, book reviews, and letters to the editor as well as the usual books and stories. Ernest Hemingway A to Z (Ref. PS 3515 .E37 Z7484) is similarly good. |
These indexes are available from the Library webpage under Research Databases, or you can search for them by name in the library catalog.
Academic Search Premier (1975-present) 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.
JSTOR (? - three years ago) is a specialty database that works very well for literature and history. All full text, all scholarly, and contains every issue of the most important scholarly journals...except for the last three years. Look for stuff Ben Franklin wrote in the 1780's.MLA Bibliography is a scholarly index for articles, books and book chapters related to literature and language.
Literature Resource Center is a database for literary research including biographical articles and full text literary criticism.
Internet Public Library>Literary Criticism Online lists links to scholarly web sites about authors and their works.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary at the University of South Carolina USC has an extensive collection of artifacts and books related to Fitzgerald, including bibliographies, a detailed chronology, voice and film clips, a series of short articles about Fitzgerald ("Facts about Fitzgerald"), and commentaries on artifacts like Sylvia Plath's marked and underlined copy of The Great Gatsby.
| 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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