Literature
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Search all of the Library's physical collection and most of its eresources.
- Gale Literature This link opens in a new windowResearch authors, works, literary movements, and genres. Find full text of literature criticism, reviews, works, articles, and biographies.
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
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Find over 500,000 primary works as well as articles, reviews, and more! *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowFind biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowFind full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, works, biographies, and more.
- Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
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Find broad topics such as Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Critical Overviews for Short Stories, Novels, Poems, Plays, and Essays
Still trying to figure out what that story or poem was all about?
Here you will find links to critical overviews for short stories, excerpts from novels, poems, plays, and essays published in Making Literature Matter, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton Reader, and other textbooks used in English Composition classes at NWACC.
Each article discusses a work's themes, style, and historical context, and features critical analysis from literary scholars and other writers.
You can find more overviews of these and other works in:
- Gale Literature This link opens in a new windowGale Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases Contemporary Authors and Literature Resource Center. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres and find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
- Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time-frames—to give students, professors, and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs. Also includes full-text ebooks of literary classics.