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Biographical and critical full-text drawn from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale's Literature Criticism series.

A full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more.

Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the This bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. No full-text.

For instructors of English in two-year colleges as well as for teachers of first- and second-year composition in four-year institutions. TETYC publishes theoretical and practical articles on composition, developmental studies, technical and business communication, literature, creative expression, language, and the profession.

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Index with abstracts. 1973-present.

Cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications.

Searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type.

Full-text of many scholarly journals with coverage back to first issues, although recent coverage is not included for most titles.

Indexes all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered. Approximately 200+ monographs are captured per year, with approximately 3,000-4,000 chapters/stories.

Full-text definitions, word histories and quotations.

Includes the full-text of over 300 quality journal titles, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Provides biographical information on the lives of over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Ranges in time from the earliest recorded European explorations to the very recent past. You can limit full text or name searches by sex, occupations and realms of renown, birth and death date ranges, birthplace and special collections (Black History, Women’s History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, American Indian Heritage, and Hispanic Heritage). Also includes articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Full-text. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of 600 controversial current and historical topics.

An online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors, plus Topic Overviews.

Contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.

Contains a wealth of essential material for learning and detailed research in a single, easily-searched database. With the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications, this database provides invaluable support for research in all core undergraduate subjects and for cross-disciplinary work.

Provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.