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ENG2050W -- Introduction to Literary Studies

 

Professor: Dr. Steven Scherwatzky
Librarian: Lyena Chavez

 



Online Databases

For off-campus access, enter the 14 digit barcode on the back of your MackCard.

Literature Databases

  • Literary Reference Center contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), 350 literary journals, 535,000 book reviews, 54,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,000 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more. via EbscoHOST
  • Literature Resource Center w/MLA access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. via Gale
  • MLA International Database -access 2 million citations from the MLA International Bibliography and over 6,100 records from the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Note: This content is part of Literature Resource Center (see above). Use this link to search MLA on its own.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select -Entries contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

Humanities Databases

  • JSTOR - a searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, many of which date from the 1800s"
  • Project Muse -"provides 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers"

Multidisciplinary Databases

 


Scholarly Articles


Locating Materials

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