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Resources for the USD community interested in literature and literary criticism.
Last update: Sep 01st, 2009 URL: http://libguides.sandiego.edu/content.php?pid=24224  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Style Guides

Click any of the links below for guidelines in using MLA format.

 

MLA Style Sheet

Click the link below for a short, printable guide with examples.

 

Creative Writing and Academic Composition

  • Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing  
    The Cropper Center hosts an annual Writers Series, sponsors writing workshops, promotes the development of writing courses, and grants awards for creative writing. Check out this site for updates on events, workshops, and awards.
  • Writing Center  
    The USD Writing Center helps students improve their academic writing. Site also includes quick links for useful tips.
 

New Books and Media for English

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Welcome to the English Literature Guide

This guide is designed to give you a start on your research in English Literature. Use the tabs above to navigate to the different sections of this guide.

 

Key Electronic Resources

Use the databases below for locating articles and bibliographies.

  • Literature Online  
      
    A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 231 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
  • MLA Bibliography  
      
    MLA (Modern Language Abstracts) lists journal articles and a variety of other types of materials on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.
  • JSTOR  
      
    Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable.
  • Academic Search Premier  
      
    Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.
  • Humanities International Index  
      
    A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Provides cover-to-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals and contains more than 2.47 million records.
  • Dissertations and Theses Full Text  
      
    The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts.
  • Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance  
    Created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) , ITER resources include Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 and Early Theatre (volume 1) 1998 to the present.
  • International Medieval Bibliography (Brepolis IMB)  
      
    Multidisciplinary Bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500).
  • Project Muse  
      
    Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
  • Sage Premier Journals  
      
    The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences, including a backfile dating back to 1999. Journals can be browsed by title.
  • World Shakespeare Bibliography Online  
      
    Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other materials related to Shakespeare from 1963 to the present.
 

New Books and Media

 

New English Language Feature Films

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New Foreign Language Films

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