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Literature
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
Hundreds of thousands of poems, as well as short stories, biographies, and essays. Topics include the poetic forms, movements, and techniques.
Literary Reference Center
Full-text resources focusing on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature and children’s literature. This database also includes volumes of fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy and religious literature, and literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature and literary genres.
General
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary comprehensive Database
Humanities International Complete
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. HIC includes all the data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index plus almost half a million full-text articles, many available with searchable references.
Search for journal articles in Primo and library databases (see databases tab).
Finding Journal Articles: detailed instructions for finding and accessing electronic and print journal articles.
Finding Journal Articles By Journal Title in Primo
- Open E-Journals Search
- Search for the Journal’s Title.
- Click on the Journal title in the search results.
- Search inside the journal for keywords on the journal page.
Find Books
Search books and eBooks at CUAA Library in Primo.
For General Instruction: Finding Books
Books on the Shelves
P Philology & Linguistics
PA Greek and Latin literature
PN Literature (General)
PN 80-99 Criticism
PN 1010-1525 Poetry
PN 1600-3307 Drama
PQ French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature
PR English literature
PS American literature
PT German, Dutch, and Scandinavian literature
PZ Fiction
LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks including The Bible, fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature. Includes foreign language books too.
Websites with Free Literature
- Google Books
A searchable collection of public domain and freely available books online. Use the advanced search to find magazines. - Project Gutenberg
(mostly older public domain books) - Directory of Open Access Books
Search for specific titles or Browse by “Language & Literatures”
Research Tips
- criticism formats: Books, essays, journal articles,
- Well know works, authors, and some characters will have their own subject terms. Look for links in item records.
- In literature databases use the advanced search to search for title and author, and limit to literary criticism under “resource type”
- In Primo, use the Advanced Search and include the author and title of the work plus the word criticism
The subscription ebook collections contain criticism of specific authors and works.
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