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Literature Research: Find Books

Below you will find a list of books available in the Reference section of the ACC library.  You cannot check out reference books, but you can make photocopies for .5 cents a page or scan pages to save to a flash drive.

Classical and Medieval Criticism
Call Number: PN 681.5 C57
Comprehensive surveys of an authors who died before 1400.
 
Literature Criticism from 1400-1800
Call Number: PN 86. L56
Comprehensive surveys of an author’s career or an individual work. include novelists, short story writers, dramatists, poets who died between 1400 and 1800.  Each entry includes a biographical sketch, excerpts of criticisms in the order published with source information. Bibliographies of further reading. Cumulative author index, cumulative topic and nationality index refers to CLC volumes and other Gale series volumes.
 
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
Call Number: PN 761. N56
Comprehensive surveys of an author’s career or an individual work. include novelists, short story writers, dramatists, poets who died between 1800 and 1899.  Each entry includes a biographical sketch, excerpts of criticisms in the order published with source information. Bibliographies of further reading. Cumulative author index, cumulative topic and nationality index refers to CLC volumes and other Gale series volumes.
 
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Call Number: PN 771 .G27
Comprehensive surveys of an author’s career or an individual work. include novelists, short story writers, dramatists, poets who died between 1900 and 1999. Volumes published from 1978 through 1999 include authors who died between 1900 and 1960. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, excerpts of criticisms in the order published with source information. Bibliographies of further reading. Cumulative author index, cumulative topic and nationality index refers to CLC volumes and other Gale series volumes.
 
Major 20th Century Writers
Call Number: PN 771. M3
 
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Call Number: PN 771.C59
Comprehensive surveys of an author’s career and individual works include novelists, short story writers, poets, dramatists worldwide now living or died after December 31, 1959. Volumes published beginning in 2000 include authors who died after December 31, 1999. Each entry has a brief author sketch, critical excerpts of contemporary criticism in the order published with source information. Cumulative author index, cumulative topic and national index refers to CLC volumes and other Gale series volumes.
 
Short Story Criticism
Call Number: PN 3373 .S386
Criticism excerpts, arranged in order published, on short story writers of all eras and nationalities. Each author entry includes biographical and critical overview of author’s work as a whole, criticisms of principal works and a selected bibliography of further reading. Cumulative author and nationality index to all Gale series’ in each volume.
 
Poetry Criticism
Call Number: PN 1010 .P62
Includes poets of various nationalities and eras. Each author entry includes a biography and a critical overview of the author’s work as a whole, criticisms of principal works and a selected bibliography of further reading. Cumulative author and nationality index to all Gale series’ in each volume.
 
Poetry for Students
Call Number: PS 3552 .P6

Drama Criticism

Call Number: PN 1601 .D59

Critical response to dramatists of all time periods and nationalities. Biographies, overviews and general studies of the dramatist’s career. Criticism of individual plays in order of publication. Each volume has a cumulative author and nationality index to all Gale series.
 
Modern Black Writers
Call Number: PN 941 .M58
 
Shakespearean Criticism
Call Number: PR 2965.S43
Criticisms on the works by Shakespeare.
 
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Call Number: PS 508 .N3 N67
Works of 120 authors from 1746 ot the present.  Includes works of poetry, short fiction, novels and drama.

You can check these books out!

This is just a sample of what the ACC library has available for your research needs.  The titles listed are mostly anthologies including a variety of authors and titles.  Please note that when searching the catalog, all authors included in an anthology will not appear in a catalog search.  When searching the catalog, think in terms of the author's nationality, genre that they wrote (poetry, short-story or novel) and the time period that their work was published.  This exercise will help you narrow down what antholog(ies) to consult.

For example, if you'd like to find something more about "The Gift of the Magi" by O'Henry.  The "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story published in the early Twentieth Century in the United States.  O'Henry was an American novelist.  So, type in the catalog: "twentieth century" and American and short story"

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