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 Languages & Literature
Poetry Research Guide
Start here for help browsing and
searching for research materials in poetry. Compiled by our languages &
literature librarian, Amanda Makula.
Finding Information in Spanish
The library has several databases that include articles in Spanish. Use this guide to help identify and search them.
Databases
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (CD-ROM available at library
reference desk)
Includes the poems of such well known figures, and many lesser-known poets whose
works may be found only in anthologies or in private libraries. Covers a wide
range of topics from slavery to abolition, to love and death.
American Periodical Series Online
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing
between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines,
literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many
other historically-significant periodicals.
L'Année Philologique
Guide to articles, essays, and conference papers on subjects from the Classical
time period. Includes references to articles in English, French, German,
Italian, and Spanish. Searches may be limited to one or more of these
languages.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The Children's Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides access to records for over 1,200,000
children's books (from baby board books to nonfiction and novels for young adults), more than 300,000 reviews, and information on prizes and awards
that the books have won.
Clase & Periodica
A database of 2,600 scholarly journals from 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. These journals specialize in science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Essay & General Literature Index
Provides access to over 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada from 1985 to present. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
A source for over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Humanities Abstracts
Includes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies,
original works of fiction, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals,
movies, and television and radio programs from more than 570 periodicals.
Indexing dates back to 1984, and abstracts start in 1994.
ITER
Meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, ITER is a non-profit research project
with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe,
Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials
pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation
of online bibliographic databases.
JSTOR Journal Archive
Stores over one thousand scholarly journals in full-text format from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups. For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available. Here's why.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to more than 38,000 full text critical literary analyses, 122,000 biographies of authors from every age and literary discipline, and in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides the full text of major newspapers from around the world, including newspapers in languages other than English. Search for book reviews and articles on writers and trends in the literary world. (Select "Book, Movie, Music, Play and Video Reviews" from the "Select Sources" pull-down menu in the News search tab.)
MLA Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations.
Coverage is international and subjects
include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory &
criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and
publishing.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Period -- 1950
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Oxford English Dictionary
The electronic version of the print dictionary. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
The OLDO is your gateway to unabridged bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Chinese, soon expanding to include Japanese and Polish. Includes usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and contextualized language reference help, including notes on life and culture. Finally, a key feature is the native speaker audio pronunciation, allowing you to hear how words actually sound.
PRISMA
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Articles examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage includes Anthropology, Business and Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, online access to over 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
Shakespeare (CD-ROM available at library
reference desk)
Full-text of eleven major editions from William Shakespeare's works from the
First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty eight separate
contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and
related works, and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques
from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Websites
Paris Review
Founded in Paris in 1953, the Review introduces important writers of the day, both by their creative work as well as through personal interviews.
Women Writers Online
A product of Brown University's Women Writers Project (WWP),
this online resource provides full text access to hundreds of documents and
works of literature written by women, covering a period from 1400 to 1850.
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