Subject Guides: CLCV 241 Macfarlane: Literature

Background Information

Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale) This link opens in a new window Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, critical analysis, and Web resources of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes.
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A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Periodical Article Indexes

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations about literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
Literature Criticism Online LCO (Gale) This link opens in a new window Essays in literary criticism that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

Ways to Search For Books

Try subject alphabetical searching for "mythology, classical in literature," or a particular author or movement. Also try searching by subject KEYWORD for the character and the medium: ex. icarus literature.

HBLL Scholar Search (Keyword) This will take you to the advanced search function of the libraries Scholar Search. Select "Books" on the left hand side after you get your search results to narrow in on books available in the library.

Dictionaries of Literary Themes, Symbols & Myths

Cambridge Companion to Allegory - Humanities Reference PN 56 .A5 C35 2010
edited by Rita Copeland and Peter T. Struck. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes, and Archetypes - Humanities Reference PN 56 .M95 D4813 1992
Edited by Pierre Brunel. Translated from the French by Wendy Allatson, Judith Hayward, and Trista Selous. London: Routledge, 1992.
Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms - Humanities Reference PN 44.5 .Q56 2006
Edward Quinn. New York: Facts on File, 2006
Dictionary of Literary Symbols (1999 edition) Michael Ferber editor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
Dictionary of Literary Symbols - Humanities Reference PN 56 .S9 F47 2007
Michael Ferber. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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This book draws on the work of more than 400 European authors.
Dictionary of Symbols - Humanities Reference GR 931 .C4413 1994
by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant. Translated from the French by John Buchanan-Brown. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

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