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Some Ways of Thinking about Literature and Authors
- Regionally: authors from the Southeast, Southwest, British Islands
- Thematically: poems about death, love, nature, God, conflict
- Temporally: short stories from the Harlam Renaissance, from World War I, from the Jazz Age
- Demographically: black women poets, gay male novelists, feminist playwrights
- Philosophically: Existential authors, Beat novelists, Romantic poets, revolutionary writers
Online Books
Use the Library's ebook databases to search for available online books.
"this is one great thing that literature can do--it can make us identify with situations and people far away" Chinua Achebe
Some books in the Stacks
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Six Poets from the Mountain South
by Call Number: PS261 .L36 2010ISBN: 9780807135600Publication Date: 2010 -
Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems
by Call Number: PN1111 .T55 2010ISBN: 0061923052Publication Date: 2010 -
Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers
by Call Number: PS508.I5 G74 2014ISBN: 9780486490953Publication Date: 2014-06-18"First time I've read a collection from Native American Writers. Won't be my last. Important collection that examines the contrast and sometimes conflict between Whites and Native Americans and also conflicts between full-blood and half-blood. Very interesting and enlightening. Loved it!" — BookBunnyPR This new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. It includes stories dating from the early twentieth century by Pauline Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief, whose works helped define Canadian literature; Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer whose books were among the first to bring Native American stories to wider recognition; John M. Oskison, whose Cherokee ancestry informed his tales of the cultural clash faced by children of mixed marriages; and D'Arcy McNickle, Cree activist and anthropologist. Ten additional stories date from the 1960s through the twenty-first century, ranging in their settings from Canada to New Mexico. Selections include Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," "Crow's Sun" by Duane Niatum, "Beading Lesson" by Beth H. Piatote, Sherman Alexie's "War Dances," and other tales that explore cultural borders and intersections, dramatizing the ways in which people discover their own heritage as well as the wider world. -
Short Story Writers and Short Stories
by Call Number: PN3373.B57 2005ISBN: 0791083675Publication Date: 2005-05-01Read Bloom's considerations on those writers who shaped the art of the short story; Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sherwood Anderson to name a few. Ages 16+. -
Modern African Drama
by Call Number: PR9347.M63 2001ISBN: 0393975290Publication Date: 2002-04-11"Backgrounds and Criticism" presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials.nbsp; Featured are essays on Tawfik al-Hakim, Kateb Yacine, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, and Femi Osofisan.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.
Literature Related Databases
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Additional Databases
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Academic Search PremierFull text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Print Reference Books
REFERENCE BOOKS - Learning Resources Centers – Available Locations (M)Main - (P)Palmer – (B)Berkeley
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC). REF PN 771.C59
Use if your author died after December 31, 1959 or is still living. (M)(P)(B)
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. (TCLC) REF PN 771.T84 Use if your author’s death occurred during the years 1900-1959. (M)
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) REF PN 761.N5
Use if your author’s death occurred during the years 1800-1899. (M)
Literature and Its Times REF PN 50.L574 1997 (M)
Relates history to literature. Includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, biographies, essays, speeches, and documents. Gives focus on the work, events in history at the time the literary work takes place and / or at the time the work was written.
Great American Writers REF PS 221.G74 2002 (M)
Includes biographical info and reader’s guides on many Twentieth Century writers. Focus is given to major works and the writer’s life.
Masterplots II REF PN 3326.M27 1986 (M)(P)(B)
Examines the theme, characters, plot, style and technique of more than 1200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by prominent authors from around the world.
Drama Series REF PN 6112.5.M37 2004 (M)(P)
Poetry Series REF PN 1110.5.M37 2002 (M)(P)(B)
Short Story Series REF PN 3326.M27 2004 (M)(P)(B)
Poetry Criticism Resources
Poetry Criticism REF PN 1111.P6 - Poets (M)
Critical Survey of Poetry REF PN 1111.C7 (M)(P)(B)
World Poets REF PN 1021.W67 2000 (M)
Drama Criticism Resources
Drama Criticism REF PN 1625.D72 - Dramatists (M)
Critical Survey of Drama REF PN 2035.C7 (M)(P)
Short Story Criticism Resources
Short Story Criticism REF PN 3373.S386 - Short Story Writers (M)
Critical Survey of Short Fiction REF PN 3373.M24 2001 (M)(P)(B)
The resources listed are suggestions. Find the area that houses your selection of reference books and browse the other sources available there, as well.