James Joyce, from Literature Online

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Course Material
Most items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.

Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 220

Voyager Searches

The following searches are Subject Heading searches.

Since students are not expected to read much criticism for this course, but rely on their own encounters with the novels, the search strategies suggested below are deliberately general and retrieve books that deal with reading and analysis:

style literary   fiction technique books and reading fiction 20th century history and criticism english fiction history and criticism english fiction 20th century history and criticism american fiction 20th century history and criticism holocaust jewish 1939-1945 in literature

Click on the button shown to the left of your search results. The next page shows a list of narrower or alternative terms to search.

Authors' names can be used as a Subject Heading to find books about them and their work:
 

delillo don forster e m kafka franz joyce james garcía márquez gabriel rhys jean wiesel elie woolf virginia

Choose the subdivision 'criticism and interpretation' or any other relevant heading. Sometimes the title of a specific work is a heading. For authors where few books of criticism and interpretation are shown, use a database to find chapters in books and journal articles, or use the author's name enclosed by " " in a Keyword Relevance search in Voyager.

Reference Books
For more information about reference books, and a more extensive list, see Reference Resources for English. The following headings can be used to find more books literary criticism and terminology.

criticism dictionaries
criticism terminology
literature terminology

Amoia, Alba, and Bettina L. Knapp, eds. Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
[Has entries on Jean Rhys and Elie Wiesel]

Childs, Peter, and Roger Fowler, eds. Routledge dictionary of literary terms. London: Routledge, 2006.

Johnson, Claudia D., and Vernon E., eds. The social impact of the novel : a reference guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Kennedy, X. J., Dana Gioia, and Mark Bauerlein. The Longman dictionary of literary terms : vocabulary for the informed reader. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.

____________________________________. Handbook of literary terms : literature, language, theory. New York : Pearson/Longman, 2009 (2008 printing).

Parker, Peter, ed. The reader's companion to the twentieth century novel. London: Fourth Estate ; Oxford: Helicon, 1994.

Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. All titles are available in print, but also online via the Cambridge Collections Online database. Within the database, you can either search for an individual play title, or enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection. Both online and print editions are accessible from the links below - click the e-resource option for the online copy.

Attridge, Derek, eds. The Cambridge companion to James Joyce. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Bradshaw, David, ed. The Cambridge companion to E. M. Forster. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Duvall, John D., ed. The Cambridge companion to Don DeLillo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
[this title is available only in Cambridge Collections Online]

Preece, Julian, ed. The Cambridge companion to Kafka. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Roe, Sue, and Susan Sellers, eds. The Cambridge companion to Virginia Woolf. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Database Searches
For help with using 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.

ABELL+FT - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters and journal articles. Some journal articles are full text. Where full text is unavailable, use the symbol to search Voyager.

MLA International Bibliography - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters, and journal articles. It has a higher proportion of book chapters than ABELL+FT. Use the symbol to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided through the Voyager catalogue record. 

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 [texts], secondary material [criticism, some of which will be full text], reference sources [full text], and web sites. This type of search is intended to give an overview of a writer's work and the commentary around it, and may retrieve large results. For more specific searching on a particular text or topic, use either of the databases above.

From Literature Online's Knowledge Notes™. These guides provide a background to the text and can be used in conjunction with other material you find in Voyager, or from any of the other resources on this page.

• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  

• A Room with A View

• The Trial

• White Noise

• Wide Sargasso Sea

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

James Joyce Resource Center

International Virginia Woolf Society - check the Bibliography link for references critical material, published annually. Check references on Voyager for UoA Library holdings.

Don DeLillo Society - the Bibliography link provides references to critical material.

Franz Kafka Biography - includes many photographs and illustrations.

Elie Wiesel - Foundation for Humanity website.

Gabriel García Márquez homepage - use the Criticism link for references to critical material.