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Brief Guide to Library resources for English 102

Search the Max Online Catalog to find books. Max is available from:

http://www.shepherd.edu/libweb

Sample Max searches:

  • Dickinson Emily (Author search)

  • Twentieth century interpretations of the scarlet letter a collection of critical essays   (Title search)

  • Frost Robert (LC Subject Headings search)

  • Literature and symbolism (Command search)

Books from the Circulating collection (3rd floor) can be checked out for 28 days – use your Rambler card to check out books.
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Popular Authors

Emily Dickinson - PS 1541.A1

Robert Frost - PS 3511 .R94

Zora Neale Hurston - PS 3515 .U789

William Shakespeare – PR 2750

Nathaniel Hawthorne - PS 1850

Edgar Allan Poe – PS 2600

Jane Austen – PR 4032

Virginia Wolfe – PR 6045 .O72

Geoffrey Chaucer – PR 1850

William Faulkner – PS 3511 .A86

* located on 3rd floor of Library


Reference Books are located on the Main floor - these may contain excerpts of criticism or lead you to other sources (books, journal articles, etc.) :

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) Ref PN 761 .N5
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) Ref PN 771 .G27
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) Ref PN 771 .C59
Dictionary of Literary Biography – 10,000+
  biographical essays written by academic
  scholars (note: on 3rd floor, in oversize section) 		Oversize PS 21 .D5

Reference Books, covering specific genres………

Poetry
  Critical Survey of Poetry Ref PN 1021 .C7 2003
  Guide to American Poetry Explication Ref PS 201 .G85 1989
  Guide to British Poetry Explication Ref PR 311 .M37 1991
  Poetry Criticism Ref PN 1010 .P499

Drama
  Critical Survey of Drama (English Language) Ref PR 623 .C75 1985
  Critical Survey of Drama (Foreign Language) Ref PN 1625 .C74 1986
  Drama Criticism Ref PN 1601 .D59
  Dramatic Criticism Index Ref Z 5781 .B8
  Masterplots II Drama Series Ref PN 6112.5 .M37 1990

Short Story
  Critical Survey of Short Fiction Ref PN 3321 .C7 1993
  Short Fiction Criticism Ref Z 5917 .S5 T5
  Short Story Criticism Ref PN 3373 .S386
  Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication Ref Z 5917 .S5 W33


Online Databases:

  • Gale Literature Resource Center

  • MLA International Bibliography

  • Gale Expanded Academic ASAP

  • EbscoHost Academic Search Premier

  • JSTOR

  • Project MUSE


For More Help ….

Librarians can assist you at the Reference Desk on the Main floor of the Library.

Telephone assistance is available at 304-876-5420.
Database Tips

  • Can search databases on or off-campus

  • Many full-text articles are available in the online databases

  • Start at the Library web site http://www.shepherd.edu/libweb/ to access online databases


Guide updated 11/06/07