Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center’s coverage is:
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Comprehensive
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Global
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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
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Over 17,000 international authors
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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
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
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Materials are editorially selected to ensure broad, representative coverage
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. . . and Collegiate Study
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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
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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
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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
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The Modern Language Association (MLA) International
Bibliography is available as an integrated module
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What do customers get for their money with LRC? In addition to the best of full-text literary criticism
and reference, part of the great value of LRC is the phenomenal amount of new content that flows into the
database 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 authors
Bringing the total number of authors with biographical and bibliographic coverage to over 130,000
Over 6,000 additional biographies:
9 volumes of Contemporary Authors
12 volumes of Contemporary Authors New Revisions
9 volumes of Dictionary of Literary Biography
Over 10,000 additional pieces of editorially selected full-text criticism
Representing about 75% of the content (based on availability of online rights) of 110 volumes of the Literature
Criticism series, and about 60% of content (based on availability of online rights) of 8 volumes from the For
Students series.
Over 80,000 additional full-text articles from current scholarly publications, literary magazines and trade
journals
Including 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. The
direct link is http://www.gale.com/tlist/lrc_rt.xls. This list is updated monthly as new content is loaded to the
database. 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 is
http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5102.xls.
As always, let me know if you need additional information or clarification!
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Mapping Literature RC to ENGLISH Curriculum
Introduction to Literature
This 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.
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Introduction to Poetry
The 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.
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Introduction to American Literature
This 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.
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Introduction to British Literature
Introduction 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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