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Includes the full-text of American and British poetry from the 20th century. *
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
Contains the full text of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.*
Short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors.*
Presents literature and essays by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora.*
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online features profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.
Full-text reference books on topics including biography, business, the environment, history, law, social sciences, medicine, religion, the sciences, and multicultural studies.*
Classic titles frequently found on school reading lists. Quick links to search the Library Catalog for locations.
Literary Reference Center combines information from over 1,000 books, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.*
Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review.
Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors and their works.*
Provides searchable fulltext and criticism of poems, plays, stories, essays, and speeches.*
The Modern Language Association's definitive bibliography on topics related to language and literature. Some full text.*
Read and download e-books and audio books on Education, Science, History, Texas State etc.*
Download audiobooks from Recorded Books for listening to in Windows Media Audio format. Separate account set-up in netLibrary is required.*
Online resource for helping teachers, school media specialists and kids find that next great fiction or nonfiction book to read. Includes Lexile scores.*
A complete readers resource with information on well over 200,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles.
Scholarly journals on a variety of topics.*
Find books in the HPL collection with selected articles and/or essays of criticism on Shakespeare's works.
Something About the Author Online brings you thousands of illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators totaling more than 12,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images.
Online streaming video of plays and film documentaries.*
Online picture books, puzzles, games and quizzes for children.*
Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.*
Catalog of library materials owned by libraries around the world.*
For more information, search in the databases listed under Magazines, Scholarly Journals and Publications.
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