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+)
Biographies
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.
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.

Links to Book Reviews

Critical Approaches

The Bedford St Martins Virtua Lit Site

Bedford St Martins Critical Approaches
Bedford St Martins Lit Links
Quotations
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.
Writing
Diane Hacker's MLA Documentation
Diane Hackers Supplement on Writing About Literature
OWL Purdue Writing About Fiction