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Academic Search Complete
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
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Book Index with Reviews
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - A database of over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles with book reviews and other information
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Choice Book Reviews
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Choice reviews significant books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.
- FreeBooknotes.com
- Links to other sites such as Sparknotes, PinkMonkey, BookRages, etc. to deliver literary criticism and synopses for over 250 books
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Gale Literary Databases
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Contemporary Literary Criticism " contains criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and short story writers now living or who died after Dec. 31, 1959. A strong emphasis is placed on including criticism of works by authors who frequently appear on syllabuses of college literature courses. Contemporary Authors provides biographic details on approximately 100,000
modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and script writers whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States. The essays of the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their work. This is the electronic version of a print series
that comprises more than 200 bound volumes. "
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search including American Women Writers, Feminism in Literature: A Critical Companion, and International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers.
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JSTOR
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
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Literature Resource Center
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes Scribner Writer's Series with15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contain the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.
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MLA International Bibliography
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable index on literature and literary criticism. No full text. There is also a javascript version of the search engine.
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Project Muse
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
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Scribner Writers
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Many authors in the Scribner Writers Series are seen from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four essays. Go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers
- Sparknotes
- Literary works explained and summarized
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Twayne's Authors Series
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
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Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. The majority of the poems included are copyright works specially licensed from print publishers such as New Edition, City Lights Books, Houghton Mifflin, W. W. Norton and Yale University Press. The collection reflects the variety and dynamism of American poetic voices in this century of change: all major movements and schools are represented, form the traditionalism of Robert Frost to the modernism of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), the confessional poetry of Anne Sexton to the proletarian poems of Muriel Rukeyser. The Imagists, Beat Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain and Deep Image schools are all featured. In addition, many contemporary writers of the 1980s and 90s who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or inclusion within leading print anthologies, are also represented
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Twentieth-Century English Poetry
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Authors include the established and canonical such as Yeats, Housman, Lawrence, Sassoon, Eliot, Plath, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, popular and accessible figures such as Kipling, Betjeman and Wendy Cope, lesser known but important names like William Empson and W.S. Graham and, among prominent contemporaries, Simon Armitage, Eavan Boland and Carol Ann Duffy.
- Articles and Speeches (Feminist.com)
- Links to full-text original and reprinted articles, speeches, interviews, and writings on feminism and women's issues from journalists, grassroots organizers, and experts.
- British Women Romantic Poets
- A collection of electronic texts and links to related resources
- Burns Encyclopedia
- The complete text of the definitive Robert Burns reference book.
- Documenting the American South
- Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Church in the Southern Black Community, and other projects containing more than 300 fulltext electronic books and manuscripts.
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
- A searchable electronic archive of American oratory and related documents
- Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures (Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies, Georgetown Univ.)
- Bibliographies, full text essays, and other resources designed to support teaching " the multiple literatures of the United States. "
- Eserver Poetry Collection
- Search by keyword, title or author or browse the full text poems online.
- Gender Inn
- A searchable database providing access to over 5000 records on feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies on English and American literature. English and German are available; some of the summaries are in German.
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
- Search or browse for speeches by speaker's name
- Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection
- Browse by author's last name, title, or time period for critical and biographical works on British and American authors and their works.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress)
- Searchable catalog of manuscript collections held by U.S. libraries and archives. Searchable by person's name,
organization's name, subject, geographic location, and more.
- Poets' Corner
- Over 4,000 works by over 500 poets along with suggestions for further reading since this site includes only works out of copyright or those whose authors have given permission for inclusion.
- Speech and Transcript Center
- Speeches from government and business leaders; realaudio and transcripts
- Television News Archive
- Searchable achive of over 30,000 nightly news programs and special news-related programs such as presidential press conferences, Watergate hearings, etc. Abstracts are available online and loans of the programs themselves for a fee.
- Wired for Books
- Audio, video and text of modern and classic stories, plays, poems, essays, and author interviews.
- WordNet: A Lexical Database for English
- Words are defined and grouped into various related sets of synonyms with definitions. Valuable to the casual user as a powerful thesaurus and dictionary, but also to the researcher as a freely available lexical database.
- Writers' Guidelines
- Searchable database of writers' guidelines for more than 1,000 publications
Still looking for a good book? For book reviews and award-winning books try:
- Amazon.com Award Winners
- Lists of all the major book awards
- Atlantic Unbound
- Atlantic Monthly's Books and Authors columns online
- Barnes and Noble Award Winners
- Listings for the American Book Award, Booker Prize, National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize, etc., etc.
- Booklist
- The online counterpart to Booklist magazine including thousands of book reviews and the Editor's Choice (best books of the year).
- Booknotes
- Transcripts of the C-SPAN program Booknotes are available 45 days after the airing of the program along with other information.
- BookWire
- Book reviews and links to Publishers' Weekly Bestseller lists.
- Library Journal Digital
- Online version of Library Journal
- New York Times Book Reviews
- More than 50,000 full text book reviews from the New York Times. Free but requires registration.
- Publishers' Weekly
- Book reviews and bestseller lists
Know of a book you want to read? Check our library online catalog. If we don't have the book, send in a book request to the Blume Library. If you want to buy a personal copy, try:
- Amazon
- The granddaddy of online books vendors
- ABEbooks
- Search for many out-of-print book dealers
- Alibris
- Search for many out-of-print book dealers
- Bookfinder
- Search for many out-of-print book dealers
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