FINDING ARTICLES

Use online databases to identify articles on your topic. For more information go to: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/articles.html

MLA Bibliography: Language and literature. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_L-Z.html#m . A database that gives citations for journal articles in the fields of folklore, literature and language.

Literature Online -- LION: http://lion.chadwyck.com/. "A fully searchable library of more than 290,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources."

Project Muse: Scholarly journals online http://muse.jhu.edu/
Provides access to full text scholarly journals online in a variety of disciplines including the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics. In general expect to find the more current journals from 1996 to the present.

Humanities Index: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/db_descriptions.html#h Citations to 500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion. Provides article citations to the major

Arts and Humanities Citation Index:
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_A-K.html#a
Citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases may be searched by: topic, author, publication journal, author address, cited author, cited work, or cited year.
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_A-K.html#a

FINDING JOURNALS

A tutorial:

FINDING BOOKS

To find critical works about authors try the following tutorial:

Go to library catalog and choose the SUBJECT field. (Click on SUBJECT to continue tutorial)

REFERENCE RESOURCES

African- American writers : a dictionary / Shari Dorantes Hatch and Michael R. Strickland, editors ; foreword by Dorothy Strickland.
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English . Reference, PR85 .C29 1993. (Covers the literature of Britain, America and the Post-colonial British countries.)
A guide to twentieth-century women novelists / Kathleen Wheeler. Reference, PR888 .W6 W44 1997
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Reference, PR111 .B57 1990
Literary History of the United States , 2 Vols. Reference, PS88 .L522 1974
The Oxford Companion to American Literature , 6th Ed. Reference PS21 .H3 1995
The Oxford Companion to English Literature , 6th Ed. Reference, PR19 .O94 2000
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English .
Reference, PR471 .O94 1996

Literary Definitions

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Reference, PN43 .B65 1970
Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs , 1988. 2 Vols. Reference, PN43 .D48 1988
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory , 4th Ed. J. A. Cuddon.
Reference, PN41 .C83 1998
Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery , 2nd Rev. Ed. Reference, BL600 .V74
A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory , 4th Ed. Jeremy Hawthorn. Reference PN44.5 .H35 2000
A handbook to Literature , 8th Ed. Reference, PN41 .H355 2000
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics . Reference, PN1021 .N39 1993
Also online:
The Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd Ed.,
Reference, PE1625 .O87 1989
The Oxford English dictionary second edition on compact disc ,
Reference, PE1625 .O87 1992
Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary .
Reference, CB475 .O38 1986

WEB SITES

Toni Morrison: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/

A LECTURE BY TONI MORRISON
http://www.umich.edu/~mqr/morrison.htm