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Course
Material 
Most items
in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.
To find
items in the Short Loan Collection, click the Readings tab in Library Search. On the next screen click on the pull down arrow next to the Course
search box, and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 107. Click Search.
Find Books
The
following searches are Subject Heading searches.
Reference
resources
Donaldson, Scott, ed. The Cambridge companion to Hemingway.
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Jordan, Kasper LeRoy. A
bibliographical guide to African-American women writers.
Westport,
Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Kolin,
Philip C., ed. The Tennessee Williams
encyclopedia.
Westport, Conn.
: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Krasner, David, ed. A
companion to twentieth-century American drama.
Malden, MA : Blackwell,
2005.
Murphy, Brenda, ed. The Cambridge companion to American
women playwrights.
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Peterson, Jane T. Women playwrights of
diversity : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press, 1997.
[Has an entry for Shange - an essay and list and further reading.]
Rollyson, Carl, ed. Critical survey of drama.
4th rev. ed. 6 vols. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1994.
See vol 6 for an entry on Williams. Vol 7 includes essays on drama and
glossaries of terminology.
Roudané, Matthew C., ed.
The Cambridge companion to Tennessee
Williams.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Serafin,
Steven R., and Alfred Bendixen, eds. The
Continuum encyclopedia of American literature.
New York :
Continuum, 2003.
Stam, Robert, and Alessandra Raengo, eds. Literature
and film : a guide to the the theory and practice of film adaptation.
Malden,
MA : Blackwell, 2005.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Online -
fully searchable collection. Search by keyword or named author, by selecting from the pull down menu in the first seach screen. Typically each author/topic is covered by an extended essay covering background, criticism, commentary, and a list of further reading. Photographs are usually included. Each article can be re-formatted for reading, and e-mailed/printed/downloaded.
Find Articles
For help with searching databases, please
contact the Subject Librarian
The
following databases will provide references to material on all authors and
topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and
Password to access these databases.
Search Tip: You can also use the Articles & More
link in Library Search. To ensure the articles meet academic requirements, click Peer-Reviewed Journals in the left hand panel of the results screen.
Film
Index International Online - provides references to criticism
and reviews. Use the  symbol to check whether we
hold the journals in which the references appear.
Film
Literature Index - covers the period 1976-2001 for film,
television and video.
Literary Encyclopedia -
brief essays on well known works.
Literature Resource Center
- search by Name of Work or Person. Use the blue tabs to see results on other aspects of the writer or their work. Articles are full text.
Literature
Online -
type an author's name in the QUICK
SEARCH to retrieve a summary of all the material available within the
database. Results will include secondary material [journal articles, some
of which will be full text, books, and book chapters], reference sources
[full text], and web sites. Use
to find the articles.
Index
New Zealand - INNZ - indexes the contents of New Zealand
publications.
New
Zealand Literature File - all references from this File must
be checked in Voyager, to see if we hold the
newspaper or journal in which the reference appears.
- For newspapers and
journals, go to Voyager and make a SERIAL TITLE search using the title of the journal or
newspaper, and check the Library Has: information for whether we
have the specified volume.
Go to the Location and Call Number given in the
catalogue record.
Newspapers and some journals may be available in full
text, with a link provided from the
Voyager record.
Example:
| Type
newspaper title in search box |
Click
the first title |
Available
full text in Newztext from 1988 |
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Internet
Resources
You must be
logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites.
Ntozake Shange : portrait of a literary
feminist - Interview
[downloads into Adobe Acrobat]
PAL - Perspectives on American Literature - entry on Ntozake Shange
Voices
from the Gaps : Women Writers and Artists of Color
Knowledge Notes ™ from Literature Online - a study guide for students on The Sun Also Rises
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