Subject Guide: Short Stories
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Literature
Resource Center - Contemporary
Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information
on more than 120,000 U. S. and international authors. Contemporary
Literary Criticism collects more than 35,000 critical essays on
contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works,
and further information. Dictionary
of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical
essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures
from all eras and genres.
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General databases
Academic
Search Premier - Provides full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications
covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer science, and ethnic studies.
WorldCat
- Provides the OCLC catalog of books, web resources and other material
worldwide.
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Internet Sites
American Literature
and Online Research - a website dedicated to helping anyone who
wants to use the Internet to research American Literature. Provides
links to online resources.
Biography - searchable database
containing 20,000 personalities.
Additional web sites are available through various search engines. Try
Yahoo! or MetaCrawler
to search by subject, title, or for individual poets.
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Books and Journals
Books may be found using the library's online
catalog. In the library, you can find books according to their classification
number.
If you need help ask any of the librarians, technical staff or student
assistant to assist you.
Dewey classification for short stories is: 800
Library of Congress Classification is in the area: PS or PZ
Online
full-text journals are available. These journals are arranged by
title.
Also, the library subscribes to periodicals
in paper copy or microfiche. They are shelved or filed in alphabetical
order according to title.
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Reference Sources
American Writers: Contains biographical information on American authors.
(REF PS 129 A55)
Contemporary Authors: Contains short biographical articles. The library
has Contemporary Authors available on its database. (REF Z1224 C6)
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Contains essays of critical information
on literature. The library has Contemporary Literary Criticism available
on its database. (REF PN 771 C 59)
Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Contains information on authors and
their short stories including biographical information and analysis
of the stories. (R 803 M194cr)
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contains biographical information
about authors. The library has Dictionary of Literary Biography available
on its database. (REF PS221 D5)
Magill's Survey of American Literature; Presents 190 American writers
from the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century. (REF. PS21
M34 1991)
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism: Provides critical information
about writers of the 1800's and their works. (REF PN 761 N556)
Oxford Companion to American Literature: Covers American literature
from earliest days to present. (R 810.3 H325o)
Oxford Companion to Woman's Writing in the United States: A dictionary
type volume of information about women's writings and their authors.
(REF RS147 O94 1995)
Reference Guide to American Literature: Includes biographical information
concerning American writers. (R 810.3 R332k2)
Short Story Criticism: Contains critical information about short story
writers and their works. Indexed by author and story. (REF PN 3373 S386)
Short Story Index: Provides information of where in a collection of
short stories a particular short story is found. (REF Z5917 S5 C6)
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: Provides critical information
about writers of the 1900's and their works. (Ref PN 771 G27)
Twentieth Century Short Story Explication: Contains a bibliography
of critical evaluations of short stories. (R 016.8083 W198t3)
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