Literature Resource Center. Gale Digital Collections The Literature Resource Center’s coverage is: Comprehensive –Biographical & bibliographic coverage

Literature Resource Center

Gale Digital Collections

The Literature Resource Center’s coverage is: • Comprehensive

– Biographical & bibliographic coverage of over 130,000 authors– Includes all genres, disciplines, and time periods, from Antiquity to today– Provides essential social, historical, and political context for deeper understanding

• Global– Over 17,000 international authors

• Current– Daily loads from full-text scholarly journals, literary magazines and trade publications– Biographical & bibliographic information updated weekly– Reference and reprinted criticism from current Gale print titles added as volumes are

published

• Authoritative– Reference materials & literature criticism from more than 18 Gale series, including

award-winners Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, and Contemporary Authors

– Literary criticism by noted scholars, critics, and other subject experts, from noted scholarly journals and monographs

• Balanced– Materials are editorially selected to ensure broad, representative coverage


• Get a broad understanding of an author’s life and works– Up-to-date overviews of authors’ lives and works and responses to their

writings– Essays by subject experts exploring the historical and social context of

author’s lives and of individual works

• Research the meaning and interpretation of literary works– Find a broad range of current critical responses from a rich selection of

scholarly periodicals and monographs– Trace the critical reception of an author’s work across time

• Develop a reading list, course syllabus or coursepack– Identify authors who share characteristics such as gender, ethnicity,

nationality, time period, literary movement, or genre– Create links to assigned readings in course management systems like

Blackboard and WebCT

• The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography is available as an integrated module

. . . and Collegiate Study


What do customers get for their money with LRC? In addition to the best of full-text literary criticismand reference, part of the great value of LRC is the phenomenal amount of new content that flows into thedatabase throughout the year.Here’s what we added to the Literature Resource Center from August 1, 2005 through July 31, 2006:Coverage of over 4,000 additional authorsBringing the total number of authors with biographical and bibliographic coverage to over 130,000Over 6,000 additional biographies:9 volumes of Contemporary Authors12 volumes of Contemporary Authors New Revisions9 volumes of Dictionary of Literary BiographyOver 10,000 additional pieces of editorially selected full-text criticismRepresenting about 75% of the content (based on availability of online rights) of 110 volumes of the LiteratureCriticism series, and about 60% of content (based on availability of online rights) of 8 volumes from the ForStudents series.Over 80,000 additional full-text articles from current scholarly publications, literary magazines and trade

journalsIncluding the addition of 20 new journals, of which 18 are peer reviewed.You can find a detailed list of Gale print reference content in LRC on gale.com under Database Title Lists. Thedirect link is http://www.gale.com/tlist/lrc_rt.xls. This list is updated monthly as new content is loaded to thedatabase. Content in the Scribner and Twayne's modules is also detailed here.A list of full-text periodicals included in LRC is available at the same site. The direct link ishttp://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5102.xls.As always, let me know if you need additional information or clarification!


Mapping Literature RC to ENGLISH Curriculum

Introduction to LiteratureThis course will attend especially to ways that literary critics "use" texts: the ways we think critically about what literature is, means, and does, for example, and the ways that we read closely, write about, and compare texts across genres, topics, periods, and cultures. Authors include Bharati Mukherjee, Tony Kushner, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and James Welch.




Introduction to PoetryThe first part of this course will concentrate on prosody — the techniques of verse, how poems are put together, how they work. The second part will undertake a mini-history of English poetry, concentrating on some of the major poems from the Renaissance through the Modernists. Authors include John Donne, William Blake, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost.





Introduction to American LiteratureThis course offers an introduction to literary cultures of the United States, with emphasis on the richness of their range and variety. Reading comparatively and with an emphasis on contemporary work, we’ll consider texts by such writers as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, and Tony Kushner.





Introduction to British LiteratureIntroduction to British literature from 1750 to the present, with emphasis on poetry and fiction. Development of skills of literary analysis, including both close reading and the understanding of texts in their philosophical, cultural, and literary contexts. Texts include Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, Fielding’s Tom Jones, and Austen’s Emma and Pride and Prejudice.




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Literature Resource Center. Gale Digital Collections The Literature Resource Center’s coverage is: Comprehensive –Biographical & bibliographic coverage