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	Introduction Use this guide to find research on world or international literatures outside of Britain and the United States. The emphasis in these resources is on major world authors and works (ancient and contemporary); if you are doing in-depth study on a non-English-language literature, also refer to the subject guides in that language. Core Resources Research Databases Reference Materials Web Sources Contact Librarian


	Core Resources World Literature and Its Times MLA International Bibliography


	Research Databases (Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases) Essay & General Literature Index Essay & General Literature Index is an index of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Bibliographic information comes from more than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications. Subjects focus on the humanities and social sciences, with topics ranging from archeology, children's literature, and fiction to political science, religion, and women's studies. View: Online Gale's Literary Index Online index to more than 130 literary criticism and literary biography reference sets. Hekman owns many of these reference sets (up to 2008) in print in the Reference Collection; read the full annotation to see a list of the sets owned by the library (with call numbers). Online full-text access is also available for a number of these titles (selected coverage from 1998-current) through the database Literature Resource Center. View: Online Annotation Humanities Abstracts Humanities Abstracts contains abstracts (summaries) of feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. It indexes nearly 600 journals covering a variety of subjects in the humanities, including philosophy, film, folklore, religion, music, and the performing arts. View: Online Literature Resource Center (LRC) LRC is primarily a literature criticism database, comprised of the complete Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, selected coverage from ten Gale literature criticism series, many single set literary monographs, and a large periodical file of literature titles containing biographies, criticism, essays and more. Articles and entries are all full-text. (Note that Hekman Library also owns some of these literature resources in print; see Gale's Literary Index for an index to the print materials.) View: Online MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. MLA International Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals database. View: Online Annotation


	Reference Materials Cyclopedia of World Authors - PN451 .M36 2004 Less comprehensive than the Dictionary of Literary Biography, but easier to use. It provides brief biographical sketches for a wide range of world authors. View: In Print Annotation Dictionary of Literary Biography - PN451 .D5 This vast series includes over 300 volumes, with each volume focusing on a particular time period, author, or literary movement. View: In Print Annotation Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century - PN771 .E5 1999 The four-volume set covers major and representative world authors, with biographical and critical essays. View: In Print Annotation Reference Guide to World Literature - PN524 .R44 1995 Covers writers from around the world, ranging from ancient Greece the present. View: In Print Annotation World Literature and Its Times - PN50 .M625 Examines literary texts in the times and places in which they were written and took place. The twelve volume set covers a full range of world literature, from Australia to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between. View: In Print Annotation World Literature Criticism - PN523 .W67 1992 This six-volume set provides "a broad selection of the best criticism of works by major authors of the past five hundred years." View: In Print Annotation


	Web Sources Voice of the Shuttle - Literatures (Other than English) A major web site for the humanities, Voice of the Shuttle includes this portal for world literatures, from African and Classical to Turkish and Welsh. View: Online Annotation

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World Literature Subject Guide

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Research Databases

Essay & General Literature Index

Gale's Literary Index

Humanities Abstracts

Literature Resource Center (LRC)

MLA International Bibliography

Reference Materials

Cyclopedia of World Authors

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century

Reference Guide to World Literature

World Literature and Its Times

World Literature Criticism

Web Sources

Voice of the Shuttle - Literatures (Other than English)

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