Literary Research Modern World Literature LIT 4113

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Literary ResearchModern World LiteratureLIT 4113

• Frederic Murray M.L.I.S.
• Reference Librarian
• frederic.murray_at_swosu.edu

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Develop a Research Strategy

• Critical Works?
• Factual Data?
• Summaries?
• Definitions?
• Primary Sources?
• Background Reading?

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Goals

• Highlight Background Resources
• Look at Useful Print Resources
• Explore Four Literary Research Databases

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Background Resources

• One volume literary encyclopedia.
• Brief entries describing authors, books,
  characters, genres.
• R 803 B435 1996

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Background Resources

• Discusses and defines various literary terms.
• Provides a solid foundation for understanding
  terms common in the discussion of literature.
• R 803 H731h6

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Background Resources

• Bibliography of Literary Criticism
  1st Floor Reference R 016.8 M272m
• Reference Guide to World Literature
• 1st Floor Reference R 809 R259
• Dictionary of World Literature Criticisms,
  Forms, and Technique
• 1st Floor Reference R 803 Sh6da

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Goals

• Highlight Background Resources
• Look at Useful Print Resources
• Explore Four Literary Research Databases

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Useful Print Resources

• Consisting of eight volumes covering 463 world
  authors and 53 major areas of study.
• Author essays will be found in the section headed
  "Analysis," in which the author's work is
  described and examined in terms of its themes,
  typical concerns, characters, motifs, and the
  like.
• R 809.3 C871 2000

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Goals

• Look at Useful Print Resources
• Explore Four Literary Research Databases

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Literary Databases

• Literary Resource Center
• MLA International Bibliography
• Project Muse
• JSTOR

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Literary Reference Center

• LRC is a completely full-text database that
  combines information from over 1,000 books, major
  literary encyclopedias, reference works, and
  hundreds of literary journals.

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MLA International Bibliography

• The Bibliography contains over 1.5 million
  citations from more than 4,400 journals and
  series and 1,000 book publishers.
• Index and limited full text.

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Project MUSE

• Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries
  and publishers providing 100 full-text access to
  over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences
  journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
• There are 101 Literature Journals.

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JSTOR

• JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive.
  JSTOR specializes in making available the back
  issues of journals in a wide variety of
  humanities and social science disciplines.
• There are 13 journals dealing with language and
  literature.

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Goals

• Highlight Background Resources
• Look at Useful Print Resources
• Explore Four Literary Research Databases

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Thank You !

• Frederic Murray M.L.I.S.
• frederic.murray_at_swosu.edu
• 580 774 7113