This
page lists resources available to you in researching literary figures, their
works and their times. It will include general subject headings to aid
your research as well as specific resources you can use during the research
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Literary Resources
This
page lists resources available to you in researching literary figures, their
works and their times. It will include general subject headings to aid
your research as well as specific resources you can use during the research
process.
Dewey/Library
of Congress Number/Reference Works:
These are the numbers you may want to browse for books in the literature areas:
808 Collections of Literature
809 History, description and criticism of Literature
810 American literature
811 American poetry
813 American fiction
820 English and Old English literatures
821 English poetry
823 English fiction
830 Literatures of Germanic languages
840 Literatures of Romance languages
860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
870 Italic literatures Latin
880 Hellenic literatures Classical Greek
890 Literatures of other languages
Don't forget to check these numbers in the REF. area of the library, too!
Online
Databases:
Edgewood High School subscribes to several online databases.
1. SIRS (Social Issues Research Series) Researcher & Renaissance http://sks8.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-portal-display?id=0000WI0691-S90645EN
Search by subject or keyword; full-text magazine and journal articles.
2. Badgerlink http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/badgerlink/ Database of magazine, journal and newspaper articles
3. World Book Online http://www.worldbookonline.com/
An online encyclopedia; search by author's name, literary era.
4. Discovering Authors
May be accessed through the applications screen; look under Discovering Authors icon
5. Literary Resource Center Search the Literature
Resource Center to find information about authors and their works. The LRC
covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other
writers.
Use either your personal South Central Library
System (Madison Public Library) card number or the following EHS school number:
29078009949705
http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/cgi-bin/pbauth.cgi
Note: It will be best to search under your author's specific name, e.g.: Poe, Edgar Allan when using these indexes.
Specific Web Sites:
General Resources:
1. Good place to start your research http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
2. Texts of poetry published before 1920 http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
3. American Literature on the Web http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
4. Cambridge History of English and American Literature http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
5. Literary Resources on the web http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
6. Top Twenty American Literature http://www.top20americanliterature.com/
7. Good general site for some poets not in the AAP site http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/index.htm
8. Offers texts online http://www.bartleby.com/
9. If you are having problems with your paper, this page may help you focus your discussion of the poem http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ReadingPoetry.html
10. Site to help with poem analysis http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/readpoet.htm
Specific Authors:
1. Site dedicated to Amy Lowell's poetry. This site also links to other women poets
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/lowell.htm
2. Repository of Elizabeth Bishops' personal papers after her death, this site at Vassar College will give you access to drafts of poems, papers written by others and bibliographic material
http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/
Primary
Sources:
American Memory Project: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
The Library of Congress has a wealth of primary sources in the American Memory Project. Look for photos, letters, speeches, diaries, etc.
Image Resources:
Badgerlink has an excellent collection of images:
Go into magazines and journals; pick the database you want to use; for example, MasterFile Premier and Academic Search Elite; search under the author's name; click on the green box that says "images"
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/badgerlink/
Other Libraries
Don't forget to capitalize on the other great resources available to you through other libraries:
1. Edgewood College Library -
You may check out materials at the Edgewood College Library by showing your Edgewood HS id.
2. Madison Public Library
We have delivery from the South Central Library System 3 times a week. You may request books using interlibrary loan and materials are delivered to Edgewood HS to our library. Let us know if you requested materials so that we can hold it for you when it arrives.
http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/madison/
Use this number to reserve materials in order to have them sent to Edgewood HS:
29078007452777
Pick ZZZ for delivery location
Video Resources:
Madison Public Library has an excellent
collection of videos;
Use their online catalog, LinkCat; search under Format; put in video or audio and follow with your author's last name as a keyword.
http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/madison/
Keywords/Phrases/Subject Headings:
In all of your searching whether for books, journals, or Internet searching, use specific author name when possible. Also, check under the following headings:
Literature
Literary movements including specific movements such as Romanticism or Modernism (Literature)
Muriel
Gunderson, Teacher-Librarian, April, 2004
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