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Subject Guide - Literature

Compiled by Chuck Fisher, Professor, English Department, and Paul Jackson, Humanities Librarian Liaison. Updated 2006.

Selected Reference Books

REF PN 44.5 .S46 Dictionary of Literary Terms

REF PS 153 .N5 O96 1997 The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

REF PS129.A55 American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (and Supplements)

REF PN471 .B57 1992 The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992)

REF PN471 .M62 1996 Modern Women Writers (4 vol.) (1996)

REF PN41 .B4 Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (1991)

REF PS21 .H3 1995 The Oxford Companion to American Literature (1995)

REF PR19 .O94 2000 The Oxford Companion to English Literature (2000)

REF PA31.P4 1971 The Penguin Companion to Classical, Oriental & African Literature (1971)

REF PN451 .M36 1997 Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 vol.) (1997)

REF PN771 .E5 1999 Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th century (4 vol.) (1999)

REF PR19.W4 Webster's New World Companion to English and American Literature (1973)

REF PN 771 .C59 Contemporary Literary Criticism (1973—1992)

REF PN 771 .G27 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (1978-1992)

REF Z 1037 .D35 1998 Children’s Literature: A Guide to Information Sources (1998)

 

Selected Circulating Books

N 72 .E53 .S65 1999 The Computer in the Visual Arts

PN6014.M1382 1973 World Masterpieces (1973)

DA533.A55 1973 Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature (1973)

PJ7694.E1 Anthology of Islamic Literature from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times (1964)

PS153.M56 N475 1996 New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage (1996)

PR5892.S88 W54 1993 The Romantic Dream: Wordsworth and the Poetics of the Unconscious (1993)

PL2265.G5 1967 History of Chinese Literature (1967)

PS625.O7 We Are Chicanos: An Anthology of Mexican-American Literature (1973)

PZ 8 .T7 2000 Treasury of Children’s Literature

PS 508 .W7 N67 1996 The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 2nd ed.

PR 2751 .A15 1954 Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies

 

Full-Text Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature and Landmarks in English Literature

 

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Book Review Digest
Library Journal
School Library Journal

The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to our Literature students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

 

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Search Premier  |  Off-Campus Access
Fuente Academica  | Off-Campus Access
Proquest Research Library  |  Off-Campus Access
American National Biography  | Off-Campus Access
Contemporary Authors |  Off-Campus Access  
Contemporary Literary Criticism     |     Off-Campus Access
Oxford English Dictionary     |     Off-Campus Access
SF Site: The Home Page for Science Fiction and Fantasy  
Arts & Letters Daily
The Barcelona Review
The Horn Book   
Ploughshares: The Literary Journal at Emerson College    
Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature
Poets & Writers: From Inspiration to Publication
TLS: The Times Literary Supplement

 

Other Library Materials

Video/DVD Check with Media Services
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #3-C09 Why Man Creates
VHS PS 2618 .A1 T45 1971 The Tell-Tale Heart
VHS PS 3537 .T3234 Z7854 1998 John Steinbeck: An American Writer
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-A09 The Elizabethan Age
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-B10 Fiction into Film, Literature Goes to the Movies
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-B13 Forms of Literature, Comedy and Drama
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-B12 Forms of Literature, Drama, Tragedy
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-B07 Literature and Psychology
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-B11 Prejudice in Literature

Cassette Tapes
PN 10009 .A1 P52 1987 VHS Picture Books: Elements of Illustration and Story
PA 4369 .A2 1990 Plutarch’s Lives

 

Searching the Library Catalog

The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

Children's literature, science fiction, poetry, literary criticism, novels, short stories, prose, romances

You can further limit your search through the use of subheadings. For example, subheadings for the heading Literature include Literature and Art, Literature - Collections, Literature, Modern, and Literature - Study and Teaching. Use the Browse option on the Kiefer Library Catalog webpage and enter Literature as the subject to find a complete list of subheadings for literature.

 

Selected Web Resources

Project Gutenberg
LiteraryHistory.com
Literary Resources on the Net
Voice of the Shuttle (Literature in English)
Voice of the Shuttle (Literatures other than English)
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
The Oxford Book of English Verse
Shakespeare Resource Center
American Verse Project
The Children’s Literature Web Guide
LitLinks
Representative Poetry Online
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
Booklovers: Fine Books & Literature

 

Selected Statistical Resources

Estimated Book Publishing Industry Net Sales, 1992, 1997, 2002—2004
U.S. Trade Book Production

 

Selected Online Images and Other Media

Children’s Literature Network
Writers—Pictures of Writers
American Masters Database: Literature
Writersmugs.com
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
National Gallery (London)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Portrait Gallery (London)

Other Library Catalogs

Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified Catalog
University of Northern College Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric

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