English Comprehensive Exam Guide
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Here is a selection of databases where you will find relevant reference material -- books, topic overviews, articles, and more -- relevant to your comprehensive exams.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowBrowse thousands of topic pages that provide summaries of authors, titles, terms, and more. Read useful reference books including encyclopedias, guides, and dictionaries. Credo offers interesting search options including images, quotations, and even pronunciations. Because this is a multi-disciplinary database, it may be helpful to limit your results to "Language & Literature."Credo Reference (formerly XreferPlus) is an online reference library comprised of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
- Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new windowThis resource brings together ten multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works. Covers literature from the medieval period to the present, as well as specialized databases for drama, poetry, and more. Explore topic or keywords using visual tools.Searchable database of literary criticism collections representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Literature Criticism Online is comprised of the following 10 Gale series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC), Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), Shakespeare Criticism (SC), Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (LC), Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC), Poetry Criticism (PC), Short Story Criticism (SSC), Drama Criticism (DC) and Children's Literature Review (CLR).
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowWith this database, you can look up terms in the Gale's Encyclopedia of Literature, and find criticism, biographies, and topic overviews on specific authors and works. By signing in with your Google account, you can save documents, citations, and highlights to Google Drive.Gale Literature Resource Center offers the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. The resource provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented. Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Gale Literature Resource Center brings together materials that support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowA useful tool for both quick reference and more in-depth exploration of writers, works, movements, historical context and literary theories. Many entries include timelines and other visual elements. Because this is a multi-disciplinary database, it may be helpful to limit your results to "Literature."Oxford Reference is the home of Oxford's quality reference publishing, bringing together over 2 million entries, many of which are illustrated, into a single cross-searchable resource. This resource provides quality, up-to-date reference content. Made up of two main collections (Oxford Quick Reference and Oxford Reference Library) which are both fully integrated and cross-searchable.
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- Gale Literature. Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new windowProvides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography provides comprehensive access to reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.
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