Polk Library Resources English 227 - Modern World Literature

Finding Books

Polk Library Catalog -- Search here to find out what books, videos, journals, etc. Polk Library owns.
**Search suggestion for finding literary criticism and biographical info in the catalog: Go to the "Guided Keyword Search" option and search for the author's first and last name ("all of these") in the "Subject".

Universal Borrowing -- Use Universal Borrowing to borrow books from other UW campuses. Items take 2-3 days to arrive at Polk.
**See our Universal Borrowing Tips for details on how to place a request.

Selected Reference Books (1st Floor South - cannot be checked out)

Specialized Reference Sources

• Literature of Developing Nations for Students - Ref. PN 3326 .L58 2000
• Masterplots II: World Fiction Series - Ref. PN 3326 .M28 1987
• Women Writing in India - Ref. PK 2978 .E5 W57 1991
• Modern Japanese Writers - Ref. PL 723 .M563 2001
• The Companion to African Literature - Ref. PR 9340 .C65 2000
• Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers - Ref. PR 9205 .A52 T89 1996
• Postcolonial African Writers - Ref. PL 8010 .P585 1998
• African Literature and Its Times - Ref. PL 8010 .M65 2000
• African Writers - Ref. PL 8010 .A453 1996
• Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times - Ref. PJ 307 .M67 2004
• Encyclopedia of German Literature - Ref. PT 91 .E53 2000
• British and Irish Literature and Its Times - Ref. PR 471 .M65 2001
• Countries and Their Cultures - Ref. GN 307 .C68 2001
• Europa World Year Book - Ref. JN 1 .E852 2006

General Reference Sources

• Contemporary Literary Criticism - Ref. PN 771 .C59
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism - Ref. PN 771 .T8
• Book Review Digest - Ref. Z1219 .C9
• Contemporary Authors - Ref. PN 453 .C63

Finding Journal Articles

MLA Bibliography - Huge literary database; contains a mix of journal articles and book chapters. Links are available to some full text; otherwise click on "Find It!" to locate articles, or check the catalog for the books.

Project Muse and JSTOR - Two full-text, scholarly article databases. Project Muse has more current issues of journals, while JSTOR covers older issues.

Humanities Full Text - Another source for literary articles. Some articles are full text.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Good source for current book reviews and interviews with authors; choose "Arts & Sports News" from the first menu and "Book, movie, music, & play reviews" from the second menu.

Contemporary Authors - Online source for biographical information about authors.

Tracking Down the Text of an Article

List of Print and Online Journals - Check here to see if Polk Library has the journal you need either in print or online formats.

Interlibrary Loan - Go here to request articles and books not owned by Polk Library.

Selected Web Resources

SAWNET - South Asian Women's Network (see especially the "Bookshelf" link)

African Literature on the Internet (many links to other pages of interest)

World Literature in English (includes study guides for a number of works)

Voice of the Shuttle: Other Literatures in English (links to pages about world lit and world authors)

Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English (organized by country/continent)

Postcolonial Studies at Emory (good place to browse for ideas of world authors)

Questions? Email Renee Buker, reference librarian, at bukerr@uwosh.edu
Page updated 4/07
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