| About
Literature Resource Center
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| Designed
as the place to access biographies, bibliographies,
and critical analyses
of more than 120,000 authors from every
age and literary discipline. Scribner
Writer´s Series includes 15-20 page signed
essays on more than 1,600 authors and
literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed
Scribner print series. Twayne
World, US, and English Authors each contains
the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne
Literary Masters books on individual World,
US, or English authors, for a total of
600 full-text titles. Now let
us learn how to effectively search this
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Literature Resource center is designed
to provide multiple access points to biographies,
bibliographies, and critical analyses
of the work of more than 120,000 authors.
Search Options Include:
–– Search by author.
–– Search by title.
–– Authors by type: where you specify gender, year of birth,
year of death, ethnicity, nationality,
genre, theme, and literary movement
or time period.
–– Keyword search.
–– Browse by Literary-Historical Timeline.
Not sure who to write about? Try
Browse by Literary-Historical Timeline
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If you already know who your author is,
search by author is one way to go.
Here, the student is looking for information
on Mark Twain.
As you can see, there a number of results. An
example of a result is "Samuel Langhorne
Clemens," in Contemporary Authors. (A
profile of the author´s life and works)
There are 12 similar listings
on the biography of Mark Twain, also known
as Samuel Langhorne Clemens as the Literature
Resource Center points out for you. It
also gives you a quick snapshot of the
man´s life.
–– Samuel Langhorne Clemens
–– (1835-1910)
–– Variant(s): Sieur Louis de Conte;
Quentin Curtius Snodgrass; Thomas Jefferson
Snodgrass; Mark Twain; Samuel Clemens
–– Nationality: American
–– Genre(s): Essays; Young adult literature;
Short stories; Travel literature; Autobiographies;
Literary hoaxes; Humorous works;
–– Satires; Journalism; Adventure fiction;
Speeches; Historical fiction; Children´s
literature
–– Literary Movement/Time Period: American
realism (Literature)
Once you have all the biographical information
you need, you can go on to look for "Literary
Criticism, Articles and Work Overviews,"
Bibliographies, and Additional Resources
by clicking on the tabs of your choice.
If you see any articles you think you
might want to save for later, simply click
the boxes next to the articles. That
will save these articles for you to browse
through later on, email them to yourself
or someone else, or print them out.
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What
is a literary criticism? The
simplest way to put it is that a literary
criticism is a written evaluation and
/ or analysis of a work of literature. So
here we are looking at the evaluations
and analyses of Mark Twain´s work.
Clicking on the "Bibliographies" tab
will take you to articles that provide
you with a comprehensive list of all of
Samuel L. Clemens, aka Mark Twain´s works.
Still want more information on Mark Twain? You
are definitely in luck because Literature
Resource Center offers you a list of additional
resources as shown below.
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For
those of you who might not know the name
of the author but do know part
of
or the entire title, this is the search
method for you.
You can narrow your search by choosing
one of the following options that are
offered.
–– Any words entered
–– All words entered
–– Exact title
Note: You
will get the most results if you have
the exact title. In using The Prince
and the Pauper as an example, the
student was able to retrieve 14 titles
by searching by "Exact Title" as opposed
when using the other two options, which
both retrieved only half that or 7 titles.
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Authors
by type is an extensive way to search
for an author. This
is a great way to find an author if you
do not have a name, but are interested
in a specific era, genre or even ethnicity!
This search allows you to search for
an author by selecting gender, year of
birth, year of death, ethnicity, nationality,
genre, theme, and literary movement or
time period.
You can select as many or as few options
as you want, depending on the amount of
information you have available. |
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Keyword
search is for those of you who want an
author or a title about certain
topics.
Let´s suppose that we want all authors
and titles about cats, dogs and 1965. The
search resulted in 55 hits.
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For
you advanced searchers, this may be the
way for you to go.
Advanced searching is an exhaustive way
to search. It covers every
possible way to narrow your search. Take
a look at all the avenues available to
you in this method. |
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| Browse
by Literary-Historical Timeline
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Take
your cursor across the faces of the many
authors and names will appear. This
will give you a good idea of what was
going on during the times listed.
This is a great resource for those of
you who want to know what was going on
during the lifetime of your author or
time era that you are researching.
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| Citing
Documents in Literature Resource Center
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In
general, the correct citation format
is as follows:
Eisinger, Chester E. "Herzog: Overview"
Reference Guide to American Literature,
3rd ed. 1994. Literature Resource
Center. Gale Group Databases. East
Los Angeles College Library, California.
10 Mar. 2002
For complete citation guidance, please
refer to the appropriate style guides
such as:
–– MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers, 6th Edition,
–– Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association, otherwise
known as the APA Style Handbook.
Note that complete bibliographic citations
of the sources reproduced also appear
in many of the biographies and critical
essays included in LRC.
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