Western Literature
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Literary Leanings
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Literature Resource Center (LRC)
Gale. Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
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MLA Bibliography
EBSCOhost. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this international bibliography of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from journals, books and dissertations.
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Literature Criticism Online
Gale. Literary criticism for authors who lived during the 19th century. Includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
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Twayne Authors Series
Gale. Full text of Twayne Literary Masters books in three series - World, US, and English authors - for a total of 600 individual titles.
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EBSCOhost
Search from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily.
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JSTOR
Full text of about 600 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, from their earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. Does not include current issues of the journals.
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Poetry Criticism
Gale. Search for a poet or a poem. Look for the list of relevant pages in each article.
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Journals
Languages & Literatures Electronic and print journals owned by Portland Community College. This list includes: many languages and literatures from around the world. Many of the journals listed are peer reviewed.
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