Sandor Teszler Library
Course Guide for English 102
| Sandor Teszler Library Course Guide for English 102 |
Professor Warren--Spring 2008
| 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. Similar titles cover Drama for Students and Poetry for Students. |
| Ref. PS 303 .G74 | Greenwood
Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. 2006. 5 volumes. Similar to the Magill Survey, except focusing on poets specifically. Includes lots of names you won't see in more general sources. |
| 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 3509 .L43 | Critical Companion to T.S. Eliot.
2007. Combines a biography of the author with a discussion of each of his major and many minor works. Also includes a little encyclopedia of people, places, and things related to Eliot. Not all authors get this treatment, but the ones who do get useful sources like this. |
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.
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.
Cambridge Collections Online contains a collection of books with long scholarly essays, particularly on literature. There are companions to subjects like modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and to authors like Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. An excellent way to get a sense of all of an author's works.
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.
Voice of the Shuttle: Modern British and American AuthorsLinks to scholarly web pages on a smaller mix of 20th and 21st century authors. Often includes interesting versions of the texts of poems and stories. Covers many of the authors for this class (Hemingway, Hughes, Cummings, Eliot, and others).
| 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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