Poetry & Short Story Reference Center​: Large database of poems, stories, dramatic works, audio recordings, video, and criticism.
 

PERIODICALS: Gale Academic OneFile and ProQuest Research Library provide many full-text journals offering literature and literary criticism. Following are only a few titles:
 

• College Literature

• Periodicals: Subscription

• Databases

• Contemporary Literature

• Contemporary Review

• Criticism

• Critique

• Explicator

• Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism

• Literary Review

• Review of Contemporary Fiction

• Sewanee Review

• Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society

• The Review of Contemporary Fiction

• Twentieth Century Literature

• Virginia Quarterly Review

• World Literature Today

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Interlibrary loan services are available for those articles not full text on the databases.
See Olivia Drakes odrakes@wvc.edu

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         Keywords to use with Gale or ProQuest:

         1. Author’s name and criticism (for example: Poe, Edgar Allan AND criticism);

         2. Author’s name and title of work (for example: edgar allan poe AND raven); 

         3. The name of the work (for example: the fall of the house of usher).

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LITERARY CRITICISMS at WVC

Literature Databases

• Academic OneFile: General college-level research source that includes journals, newspapers and more.

• Credo Reference: 500+ reference titles spanning all subjects.

• Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary): 80,000+ full length e-books on all topics. 

• LibriVox​: Thousands of free, public-domain audiobooks read by volunteers. Books can be streamed or dowloaded. 

• Project Gutenberg: 42,000 full-length fiction and nonfiction e-books.

• ProQuest Learning: Literature: Interdisciplinary database of over 5,000 titles including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Provided by eLibrary.

• ProQuest Research Library: Interdisciplinary database of over 5,000 titles including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

• ProQuest Research Library: Literature & Language: Interdisciplinary database of over 5,000 titles including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers, this search will focus your results.

• Recorded Books: Audiobooks available for transfer to a portable device or to listen to on your computer. Requires account creation and installation of an app.
  
  
  Websites considered reliable:
   

• Great Books Online: http://www.bartleby.com

• Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit

• Internet Public Library: Native American Authors: http://www.ipl.org/div/natam

• Literary Gothic: http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html. Offers access to some primary texts and literary criticism.

• *Literary Resources on the Net: https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ It lists other Web sites in the field of American and English literature.

• Modern American Poetry: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/index.htm

• Poetry Portal: http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles.html is a huge, eclectic site that has useful information.

• Words without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/index.php/. A site offering international literature in translation.

• Project MUSE:  https://muse.jhu.edu/  Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. You will have to get the full-text article through Inter-Library Loan (ILL) see Olivia Drakes odrakes@wvc.edu

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