Literature

Reviews print and electronic reference works published since 1997. The reviews are "written by librarians for librarians." AKA American Reference Books Annual, ARBAonline's reviews cover reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject areas. Updated monthly.

Includes more than five million review citations from over 5,800 books and periodicals, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews; Please note: Our BRI license allows for five (5) U of MN - TC users at a time -- if you are denied access, please wait a few minutes and try again.

A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 100,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. Please note: our license only allows for one simultaneous user. If you are denied access please try again later.

2008-present. Featuring comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, you'll find profiles of past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics.

Lists over 450,000 items, mainly in Britain and North America, from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries. http://www.oclc.org/services/reference/rlg/default.htm"

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism provides 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography with extensive cross-referencing with hyperlinks.

This product includes ten core literature reference series (Contemporary Literary Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Mediaeval Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review). Each CIC institution holds print copies of most of these series, and most libraries hold annual subscriptions allowing electronic access to newly published material. The content is targeted to support undergraduates, and the CIC agreement includes access for the campuses in Duluth, Morris and Crookston.

LitFINDER provides either the full text or a citation to a print source in which to read any of 125,000 poems, 5000 stories, 2800 essays, 1000 plays, and 1800 speeches, with new material added regularly. You can search by many ways, including author, subjects, nationality, and time period.

Full-text of the 2nd ed. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. Also available in print.

This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.

Cumulating the annual bibliographies in Shakespeare Quarterly, this database lists books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1964 and early 2005. The scope is international, including more than 118 languages from around the world. The 102,200 records also cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings. Search by author, title, subject, keyword, phrase, date, language, publisher, and/or periodical title.

Directs you to websites for criticism and biographical information about writers.

The Archives contain over 3600 full-text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from 140 poets, searchable by author, title, and first line. For a browsable list of authors included in the database, see Poet List.

A collection of close to 14,000 quotations that can be searched by title, author, quote, or exact words. Also included is a discussion forum.