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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
High Plains Library District
Windsor-Severance
Library District
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