Literary ResearchModern World LiteratureLIT 4113

Frederic Murray M.L.I.S.Reference Librarianfrederic.murray@swosu.edu

Develop a Research Strategy

• Critical Works?• Factual Data?• Summaries? • Definitions? • Primary Sources?• Background Reading?

Goals

• Highlight Background Resources

• Look at Useful Print Resources

• Explore Four Literary Research Databases

Background Resources

• One volume literary encyclopedia.

• Brief entries describing authors, books, characters, genres.

• R 803 B435 1996

Background Resources

• Discusses and defines various literary terms.

• Provides a solid foundation for understanding terms common in the discussion of literature.

• R 803 H731h6

Background Resources

• Bibliography of Literary Criticism 1st Floor Reference R

016.8 M272m

• Reference Guide to World Literature1st Floor Reference R 809 R259

• Dictionary of World Literature: Criticisms, Forms, and Technique

1st Floor Reference R 803 Sh6da

Goals

Highlight Background Resources

Look at Useful Print Resources

Explore Four Literary Research Databases

Useful Print Resources• Consisting of eight

volumes covering 463 world authors and 53 major areas of study.

• Author essays will be found in the section headed "Analysis," in which the author's work is described and examined in terms of its themes, typical concerns, characters, motifs, and the like.

• R 809.3 C871 2000

Goals

Look at Useful Print Resources

Explore Four Literary Research Databases

Literary Databases

• Literary Resource Center

• MLA International Bibliography

• Project Muse

• JSTOR

Literary Reference Center

• LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books, major literary encyclopedias, reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.

MLA International Bibliography• The Bibliography

contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

• Index and limited full text.

Project MUSE

• Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

• There are 101 Literature Journals.

JSTOR

• JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines.

• There are 13 journals dealing with language and literature.

Goals

• Highlight Background Resources

• Look at Useful Print Resources

• Explore Four Literary Research Databases

Thank You !

Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. frederic.murray@swosu.edu580 774 7113