English 218
Writing about Literature
Research Links
English 218
Writing about Literature
Research Links
| ASU Library Resources |
| Academic Journals and Electronic Journal Databases |
| Books in Print — (publication information and reviews) |
| EBSCOhost (1990+) |
| Electronic Indexes for Periodicals |
| Electronic Journals |
| LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe |
| Literature Resource Center — includes biographies, bibliographies & critical analysis of authors from every age & literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists & other writers. Includes full text of journals on literature and literary criticism.) |
| Ingenta (1988+) |
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| Biographical Dictionary — Short biographies. |
| Biographies — Biographies of historically important Americans. |
| Biography.com — A database of more than 25,000 biographies. |
| Biography Center — More than 10,000 biographies. |
| Lives, the Biography Resource — Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, and oral histories. |
| Biography/Who's Who — Links from Refdesk.com. |
Homework Center Biographies — Great links from the Multnomah County Library. |
| Time 100 — Profiles of the 100 people Time magazine has selected as the most important of the 20th Century. |
| More Biographies — Links from Open Directory Project. |
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| Book Reviews |
| BookNotes — Transcripts of interviews by authors searchable by name, book title, and keyword. |
| Choice — 1988+ |
| New York Review of Books — Free, searchable archive of some lengthy book reviews. |
| New York Times Book Review — Complete text of every book review since 1996. The first time on the site, you must register. |
| Reviews of Books.com — Links to published book reviews of a wide range of books. Use the search feature or the site map. |
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| Critical Approaches |
The Bedford St Martins Virtua Lit Site |
| Bedford St Martins Critical Approaches |
| Bedford St Martins Lit Links |
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| xrefer — Provides keyword searches for books of quotations as well as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses from major publishers. |
| Research from Bloomsburymagazine.com — Online searchable database of reference books on literature, art, myth, human thought, and quotations. |
| Bartleby's Quotation Books — Searchable copies of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988), and Columbia World of Quotations (1996). |
Food For Thought — A collection of quotes searchable by subject, author, and keyword. |
Thought for Today Quotation Archive — Searchable archive of quotations. |
Quotations — Large quotation collection grouped by author and topic with a separate area for poetry. Unfortunately, it has no search engine. |
Quotation Links — Links to many different quotation sites provided by the Quotations Page. |
More Quotations — Links from Open Directory Project. |
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| Writing |
| Diane Hacker's MLA Documentation |
| Diane Hackers Supplement on Writing About Literature |
| OWL Purdue Writing About Fiction |