Research Guides: Creative Writing: Research & Reading

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Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Short Story Criticism; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides reliable information on authors and their works, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies, including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more. Includes the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
This resource provides full text of journals, books, and other published humanities sources from around the world.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Information on journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore.