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Art Speigelman from Literature Online

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Level 1, General Library
University of Auckland
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Auckland 1142
New Zealand 
Phone: 64 - 9 - 3737599 ext. 87347 l.george@auckland.ac.nz

Course Material

To find items in the Short Loan Collection, click the Readings & Exams tab in Library Search. Type the course name, ENGLISH111. Click Search. Sort by title, or use the options in the left-hand panel to refine the results.

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Search Tip: You can also use the The Catalogue to find material on the topics discussed in your course, e.g. animated film, graphic novels criticism. From the results screen, use the options shown in the left hand panel to refine your results

The following searches are Subject Heading searches. buttons may be shown next to a Subject Heading. This offers alternative or more precise search terms. explains the scope of the Subject Heading, and may refer you to alternatives.

books and reading
graphic novels
motion pictures
drama
laughter in literature
mind and body in literature
emotions in literature
english poetry 19th century history and criticism
sonnets english history and criticism
comic books strips etc history and criticism

Author's names may be used as SUBJECT HEADING searches to find books about them and their work:
NB: Names comply with Library of Congress spelling protocols and may differ to those in book details

spiegelman
nabokov vladimir vladimirovich 1899-1977 criticism and interpretation
nabokov vladimir vladimirovich 1899-1977 lolita
austen jane 1775-1817 criticism and interpretation
austen jane 1775-1817 pride and prejudice
shakespeare william 1564-1616 twelfth night  

Reference Books

Dutton, Richard, and Jane E. Howard, eds. Companion to Shakespeare's works, volume III: the comedies. New York, N.Y. : Blackwell, 2008.

Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds. Companion to the history of the book. New York, N.Y. : Blackwell, 2008. [section of History of the Material Text]

Hagberg, Gary L., and Walter Jost, eds. Companion to the philosophy of literature. Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. [use the left hand panel to navigate]

Hodgdon, Barbara, and W. B. Worthen, eds. A companion to Shakespeare and performance. New York, N.Y. : Blackwell, 2008. [section on Twelfth Night]

Johnson, Claudia L., and Clara Tuite, eds. A companion to Jane Austen. New York, N.Y. : Blackwell, 2009. [use the left hand panel to navigate the chapters]

Kremer, S. Lillian, ed. Holocaust literature: an encyclopedia of writers and their work. London : Credo Reference Ltd., 2007. [section on Art Speigleman]

Seed, David. A companion to twentieth-century United States fiction. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. [section on Nabokov. Use Part I for other genres of literature]

Widdowson, Peter. The Palgrave guide to English literature and its contexts, 1500-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. [Use table of contents. Arranged chronologically by literary period and movement]

Martin, Wendy, ed. The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Copeland, Eward, and Juliet McMaster, eds. The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Leggatt, Alexander, ed. The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Connolly, Julian W., ed. The Cambridge companion to Nabokov. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Gill, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Wolfson, Susan J., ed. The Cambridge companion to Keats. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Chandler, James, and Maureen M. McLane, eds., The Cambridge companion to British romantic poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Cousins, A. D., and Peter Howarth, ed. The Cambridge companion to the sonnet. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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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.

Literature Online - All the authors studied on this course are represented in Literature Online. Type an author's name in  the QUICK SEARCH to retrieve a summary of all the material available within the database. You may find primary material [poetry], secondary material [criticism, some of which will be full text], reference sources [full text], and web sites.
The REFERENCE SHELF [look in the left-hand menu of the database and click on drop-down menu arrow] has the Concise Oxford and Webster's dictionaries, Shakespeare Glossary, and the King James Bible.

The following links are to KnowledgeNotes™ from Literature Online

Pride and Prejudice

Lolita

Twelfth Night

 Internet Resources
You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites.

Art Spiegelman's Maus - working through the trauma of the Holocaust. 
Part of a site from the University of Viriginia's Department of German, Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities, compiled by Robert S. Leventhal.

Sonnet Central
A site that deals entirely with the sonnet as a poetic form. Scroll down the page to the links to specific literary periods. 

Romantic Circles - a set of online research tools intended for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts.

Norton Topics Online - choose a literary period from the section below the main heading, and then the panel on the left of the screen to navigate the topics.

Modern American Poetry - a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry, including individual authors, e.g. Dickinson.

PAL - Perspectives in American Literature - a research and reference guide to various American literary periods and individual authors, e.g. Dickinson, Nabokov.

Victorian Web - deals with every aspect of the period, discussing both individual author's work and the context in which it is placed.

Anglistik Guide - a subject gateway to scholarly relevant Internet resources on Anglo-American language and literature.