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Find Your Literature
Welcome to the research guide for Introduction to Literature. This guide will help you find research materials and cite your sources.
See below for course information and a quick list of resources to get you started.
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Best Bets
The following can help you start your research.
See the Library Resources tab for more extensive lists of suggested materials.
Databases
- Gale Literature Resource Center
- Why search here? This is the most important database for the English program, and it is also useful for other fields in the humanities.
- What’s included? This database contains full-text author biographies, literary analyses, and reviews for a wide range of literature, conveniently sorted by resource type.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Why search here? This database is a comprehensive index for publications in the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film.
- What’s included? The database contains over three million records, including citations for journal articles, books, websites, and dissertations.
- English Studies
Journal of English language and literature.
- Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art
A literary journal dedicated to publishing quality fiction, poetry, essays, photographs, artwork, and interviews. (Not peer reviewed.)
- The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story byCall Number: 813.0103 F119ISBN: 0816031649Publication Date:
Engaging and jargon-free, with contributions from a team of scholars, The Facts On File Companion to the American Short Story is the only reference to analyze the genre as a whole.
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature byCall Number: 820.9 K1394pISBN: 1596980117Publication Date:
Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today’s schools, a primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of core masters such as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen.
Humanities at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Arts & Sciences
The departments within the school offer a total of fifteen majors and twenty minors at the undergraduate level and a master of arts in American studies at the graduate level.
- English, Foreign Language & Humanities
The Department of English, Foreign Language & Humanities offers a broad range of courses leading to the bachelor of arts degree in English or English education. Students may also pursue a minor in English, writing, or Spanish.