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Literature and Criticism Subscription Databases:
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This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related. |
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This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.
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Black Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction,
nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.
There are 13,000 pages of text in this first release. |
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Caribbean Literature is an extensive searchable collection of poems, novels, and short stories produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature.
The database currently has over 6,000 pages. |
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Latin American Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose,
poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete.
There are 19,500 pages of prose and poetry and 36 plays in this release. |
Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals,
500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, over 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories,
3,000 author interviews, over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
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Compiled by Salem Press, this database is the definitive,
online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses.
This database also includes brief plot summaries of
the most studied works in the history of literature.
MagillOnLiterature contains all of Masterplots
and Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors,
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Literary
Annual, Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy
as well as World Philosophers and Their Works.
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MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers
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Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection
of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry
contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing
of principal works and sources for further study.
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JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
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Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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The Boston Globe (1872-1923) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The
collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry,
extensive contemporary critical reviews,
as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars. |
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South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collection will also feature author interviews and manuscript materials that will shed additional light on the rich literary heritage and emerging traditions of this region.
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Twayne Authors Series contains full text discussions
about works by 600 authors as well as a chronology
of their life.
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| Exploring Shakespeare
On Campus (same as off campus)
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Gives character descriptions, criticism, and themes
on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and
Macbeth. Also contains biographical information
on Shakespeare and period information on the Renaissance.
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Readers advisory tool for all age groups. |
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