English 220: Principles of Literary Study

Resource Guide


 

    To access our databases from off-campus, click on this link on the library's main page (enter your ID and password when prompted):

    Note: there is no printing capability for off-campus users. You must e-mail articles to your email account in order to print them.


 

Finding Books

Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 65 other Illinois academic libraries. Enter relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your subject as a "Browse Subject" term in the search box.
  • Finding literary works by and about your author

    Works by an author- Browse Author: Morrison, Toni

    Works by an author in a collection- Boolean Search: Morrison AND Toni

    Works about an author, or about their work- Browse Subject: Morrison, Toni

    If you can't find what you're looking for at our library, click on "Repeat search in All ILCSO Libraries" at the top of the page. If you find a book that you'd like to order, then visit Requesting Books Owned by Other Illinet Libraries for ordering instructions.

    Note: If you find books that you need to interlibrary loan, order them as soon as possible! They take 7-10 days) to arrive.


 

Finding Scholarly Articles in our Databases

 

  • Gale's Literature Resource Center ~ An extremely powerful search tool, the LRC "provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline." Includes databases such as MLA Bibliography, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Literary Index. There are also external links to related, reviewed Internet web sites.

  • Project Muse ~Project MUSE is an online library of nearly 200 journals from Johns Hopkins University Press, with the full text of articles from 1996 to the present. Journals in this collection cover primarily the humanities and the social sciences. (All full text)

 

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what?

Don't fret. Look for these buttons: , or , or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX) next to the article citation on the search screen. Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal. If we don't have the journal in our databases, you'll be given an option to check the catalog to see if we have the print version, or you'll be able to order it via Interlibrary Loan.

     

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Internet Resources

These sites are best used as starting points to help you find general information about your author or literary work/ time period: some sites even contain online full-text publications, essays and articles. Note: online web sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

Online Literary Criticism Journals


Evaluating & Citing Internet Resources

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This page was created 11/1/1999 by Anne Jordan Baker, last updated 10/12/2005 by J. Hill, librarian, Elmhurst College