Selected Resources in
ENGL 373—20TH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION
October 29, 2002
PLU Library--Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

BOOKS:  Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  Some topics that might be of interest:
 

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Some of these indexes are print and some electronic.  Access the electronic resources from the PLU library home page:  (http://www.plu.edu/~libr).  Some electronic resources require a username and password.  To locate articles on your topic use:

Arts & Humanities Search:  A citation index referencing 8795 of the world’s leading arts                                and humanities journals.   Requires PLU ePass username and password.

JSTOR is an archival database with 117 core scholarly journals in the arts, social sciences, sciences and 7 general science journals starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s and some even to the 1600s.  JSTOR provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journal content. You can retrieve specific articles, browse individual journals, or search by topic. As this is an archival service, current issues (usually the latest 3 to 5 years) are NOT available. Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.

MLA:  Modern Language Association's index to international journals and books on literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, from 1963 to present. No book reviews!  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.

EBSCOhost :  A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU also gives you access to our full-text periodicals.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Contemporary Literary Criticism  (CLC)(ref PN771.C59)
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) (ref PN771.C61)
Provide critical analysis of authors and their works with bibliographies of other useful sources.  The cumulative indexes in the last volume cover all three sets.  TCLC covers authors writing from 1900-1960; CLC covers 1960 to the present.  There is also an online index to these print sources. (http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex)
 

Afro-American Writers From The Harlem Renaissance To 1940 (ref. PS153.N5A396 1987)
Black Literature Criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black
    authors over the past 200 years (ref. PS153.N5B556 1992)
Black Writers Of America; A Comprehensive Anthology (ref. PS508.N3B35)
Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story (ref. PS374.S5C57 2000)
Continuum Companion To Twentieth Century Theatre (ref. PN2035.C65 2002)
Critical survey of drama (ref. PR623.C75 1994)
Faulkner Glossary (ref. PS3511.A86Z965 1966)
Harlem Renaissance And Beyond : Literary Biographies Of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-
    1945 (ref. PS153.N5R65 1990)
Oxford Companion To African American Literature (ref. PS153.N5O96 1997)
Twentieth-century American dramatists (ref. PS351.T9)
Who's Who in Faulkner (ref. PS3511.A86Z784)
William Faulkner: An Annotated Checklist Of Criticism (ref. Z8288.B38)
 

INTERNET RESOURCES

The Internet is an attractive source of information but it does not have the best information for
all situations.   Use the Internet only for supplemental information.  Read the handout "Evaluating Information from the Internet"  (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html).

American Literature (http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/americanlit.html)
August Wilson (http://www.humboldt.edu/~ah/wilson/)
Ernest Hemingway Foundation (http://www.hemingway.org/)
Harlem 1900-1940 (http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/)
Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction
    (http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html)
Octavia Butler Resources (http://www.geocities.com/sela_towanda/resources.htm)
Thomas Pynchon (http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/p/pynchon21.htm)
Ursula Le Guin (http://www.ursulakleguin.com/)
William Faulkner (http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html)
 
 

BEYOND PLU

PLU belongs to a consortium of small private colleges and universities.  This consortium includes: St. Martin's College, Northwest College, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University, and University of Puget Sound.  You may check materials out from these libraries using your PLU ID.

You may also order articles and books from PLU's Interlibrary Loan (Most libraries won't loan reference books).  Staff at the Reference Desk will assist you with your ILL orders.
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.

 
 

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