Subject Guide: Short Stories

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Databases

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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