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The recommendations listed below represent some, but certainly not all, of the library resources worth exploring as you being a research assignment in this subject area. Please consult your teacher and/or a librarian for further suggestions.
Print Resources: Reference Collections
Begin with encyclopedias and reference works specific to your subject matter:
Call No. Title
PE1625 .M7 Oxford English Dictionary (12 vol. & supplements)
PN44 .M3 1998 Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 vol.)
PN50 .L574 1997 Literature and its Times (5 vol.)
PN501 .E9 1983 European Writers (14 vol.)
PN771 .C59 Contemporary Literary Criticism
PN771 .C6 Contemporary Authors
PN771 .M27 1991 Major 20th Century Writers (4 vol.)
PN1021 .C7 2002 Critical Survey of Poetry (8 vol.)
PN1625 .C68 2001 Critical Survey of Drama (8 vol.)
PN3321 .C7 2001 Critical Survey of Short Fiction (7 vol.)
PN3377 .S386 Short Story Criticism
PN3451 .C75 2000 Critical Survey of Long Fiction (8 vol.)
PQ7081 .M625 1999 World Literature and Its Times (5 vol.)
PR85 .B688 British Writers (7 vol. & Suppl.)
PR2965 .S54 Shakespearean Criticism
PR2987 .S47 1992 Shakespeare for Students
PS129 .A55 1981 American Writers
PS153 .N5H245 Harlem Renaissance (3 vol.)
PS221 .T834 1985 Twentieth Century American Literature (7vol.)
Print Resources: Circulating Collections
Use the library online catalog (IPAC) to find additional resources from the circulating collections. Subject headings in library catalogs follow standardized formats, in Pingry's case Library of Congress Subject Headings. Plan your searches thinking about this organization
| Sample Subject Heading: | American Literature - 20th Century - History and criticism |
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English Literature-Women
authors - History and criticism |
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| Keyword Search: |
United States poets yields the subject "Poets, American" |
Subscription Databases:
(From the Pingry Library Web Page)EBSCOHost Periodical articles and abstracts, especially Academic Search Elite
Encyclopedia Britannica Online General background information
GaleNet general background information
History Resource Center: United States
History Resource Center: Modern World
Literature Resource Center
LitFinder Story Finder, Essay Finder
Proquest Periodical articles and abstracts, including the New York Times and Proquest Historical Newspapers
SIRS Knowledge Source The component entitled SIRS Renaissance contains full- text humanities periodical articles on literary topics.
Internet Resources:
Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Poetry & Literature Center of the Library of Congress
Additional Resources
Before beginning:
Follow the steps of the research process as recommended in the Cornell University Libraries.
Recommended Search Engines and Meta-Search
Engines:
No one search engine has indexed the entire web. Each search engine uses a
program, referred to as a “spider,” that visits web pages searching for terms.
All The Web
Google
Kartoo
ProFusion
Ask
Vivisimo
Recommended Directories:
Unlike search engines, directories
are composed by people who evaluate the content of web
sites and organize them into broad subject categories.
Argus Clearinghouse
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Internet Public Library
Virtual Reference Desk (NJ State Library)
Resource Discovery Network
Yahoo
Citing Internet Resources
Consult the
Pingry Manual of Style
for acceptable citation formats.
Plagiarism:
A few guidelines in this regard
Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
(University of Indiana)
What is Plagiarism? (Georgetown University)
Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue University OWL-Online Writing
Lab)
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