Literary+Criticism

Databases @ PCS

 * Twayne's Author Series- Full text discussions of an author's works and a chronology of their life.


 * Academic OneFile- Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources


 * SIRS Renaissance- Provides information on Architectures & Design, Culture, Literature, Multimedia, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy & Religion, and Visual Arts. Also includes a Literary Corner - comprised of Literary Profiles, Literary Criticism, Notable People, and more.


 * ArtStore- Includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.


 * JSTOR Language & Literature Collection

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 * TRIAL ENDS 12/14/10 Literary Reference Center Plus & History Reference Center (Password - trial)


 * TRIAL ENDS 11/4/10 Literature Resource Center

Databases @ NYPL

 * Literature Resource Center- Scroll down to locate the link. Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.


 * Project Muse - Scroll down to locate the link. Provides full-text access to over 400 current and back issues of peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences including many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.


 * Academic Search Premier - Scroll down to locate the link. A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.


 * Contemporary Authors - Scroll down to locate the link. Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.


 * Dictionary of Literary Biography -Scroll down to locate the link. Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center.


 * Biography in Context <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scroll down to locate the link. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection- The Literary Criticism Collection brings together hundreds of critical and biographical sites with annotations. It is international in scope, but emphasizes authors from North America, the British Isles, and the former British Empire. The collection is arraged by author, title, and nationality/literary period.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literary History - An index to free articles on English and American literature, both scholarly and popular articles.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LitLinks- Browse or search this comprehensive site by author name to find short biographies and links to additional web resources. Covers a wide range of authors from all literary periods.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literary Resources on the Net- This is a searchable and comprehensive guide to author information with more critical links than most other sites.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shmoop- Shmoop provides easy to understand, fun study guides for literature, poetry, and US History. Also provides tips for writing papers.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research- The Voice of the Shuttle is a very comprehensive index to online information about authors, but there is little actual criticism mixed in among the online texts and links to other information about the authors. Despite this limitation it is a very useful starting place, especially since much of the criticism is labelled as such. Sections of the site which may prove particularly useful include:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Classical Studies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literature in English
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literatures (Other Than English)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literary Theory

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Useful Starting Places

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literature, Arts and Medicine Database- This database contains commentary on literature that deals with medical and psychological issues. While this may sound like a peculiar topic, it does contain good criticism on a wider range of topics than you might imagine.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide- This detailed website is a guide to finding literary criticism and commentary about American authors. It is arranged by literary periods, and includes introductions and general bibliographies for each period.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voices from the Gaps Women Writers of Color- "An instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color." This is an excellent source for biographical information as well as bibliographies about North American women writers of many ethnic backgrounds. Some of the entries contain links to sites with critical articles.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">**Good Starting Places for Specific Time Periods**

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Luminarium- This site offers biographical and critical essays on a range of authors from Medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth century Europe. The essays themselves are written by a variety of people, many of whom are scholars in their field. The amount of documentation (bibliographies, footnotes, etc.) varies between essays.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Labyrinth: A World-Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies- A huge collection of resources about the Middle Ages and late antiquity, designed primarily for professors but useful for students as well. For example, if you search "Chaucer" on the site, you will get links to much useful information about Chaucer's life and works, particularly the Canterbury Tales.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Early Modern Literary Studies- This is a good academic journal available in full text on the Internet. "Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews evaluate recent work as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field." The journal also evaluates useful web sites.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Gothic: Materials for Study- "The text of the project is divided into five sections, and each has an introductory page that can be accessed from the title page. Each section is then broken down into subtopics that include excerpts from both primary and secondary (critical) texts."


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Romantic Circles- "This site is devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Romantic Circles is the collaborative product of an ever-expanding community of editors, contributors, and users around the world."


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)- "Romanticism On the Net is a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to Romantic and Victorian studies." Includes articles, book reviews, and many recommended web sites.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Victorian Literature Overview- The site includes a timeline, authors, discussion of the literary canon, literary techniques, genres and modes, Victorian serials, and literary convergences.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Modern Word- A web site which provides biographical and critical essays, bibliographies, and links relating to experimental twentieth century authors, such as Pynchon, Kafka, and Joyce.