Classification of literature for NSW secondary schools
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Classification of literature for NSW secondary schools Introduction The schedules and the manual of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) provide guidance on the classification of literature in all languages. Further guidance for Australian schools on the interpretation of rules and the implementation of options is available in the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) standards. In this document some of the concepts from both the DDC manual and the SCIS standards are discussed to enable teacher-librarians to understand the information in the SCIS bibliographic records. A selection of the numbers for literature has been reproduced so that the classification numbers for specific authors who are studied as part of the current English curriculum in New South Wales (NSW) can be indicated. Using these numbers will ensure consistency in the classification of literature in the catalogues of all NSW schools. Classification of fiction The SCIS standards specify that all works of prose fiction in any language are classed at F. Critical works and commentaries are classed in the schedules in the DDC 800 classes. This policy results in a separation on the school library shelves of the author’s work and works about the author and the work. However, this separation is appropriate for the school library and it avoids the need to distinguish between the meaning of F (Fiction) and the Dewey classes for fiction when classifying literature. Classification with Abridged DDC The abridged edition of the DDC, the edition recommended for use in schools, does not provide special numbers for Shakespeare, or for the division of the literature numbers by time period. To classify Shakespeare, single and collected works of literature other than fiction, literary criticism, biography and history of literature, secondary schools may need to expand upon the numbers in the abridged edition. The special numbers for Shakespeare and the expanded numbers for works of literature, other than fiction, are listed, with examples of authors belonging to particular time periods. Schools using these numbers need to 1 specify when ordering SCIS records that they require DDC 22 classification numbers for this area of the collection. Facets to be considered when classifying literature, from the DDC manual There are three facets to be considered when building literature numbers: • language • form • period. Language Literary works are classified by language, not country of origin. An exception is made for: • works in English originating in countries of the Western Hemisphere which are classed in 810 • works in English from the Eastern Hemisphere which are classed in 820 • comprehensive works on American/Canadian literature in English and English literature are classed at 820. Literary works are classified in the language in which they were originally written. A translation of a play, originally written in French, is classed as French drama. Authors are classed with the language in which they write or wrote last, for example Samuel Beckett at 842.914. For an author who changes national affiliation, use the literature number for the country of which citizenship is adopted, for example T.S. Eliot is classed as British. Form In literature, there are two basic modes of expression: • poetry • prose. Drama, whether in poetry or prose, is classed with drama. Literary works in a particular form exhibiting satire and humour are classed with the form, for example critical appraisals of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels are classed at 823.5. Collected works, critical evaluation and biography of individual authors are classed with the form with which the author is chiefly identified, for example T.S. Eliot 821.912, but individual works 2 and their appraisal are classed with the form of the work, for example Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral 822.912. Period One literary period only is used for biography and criticism of an author and the works of an author in forms other than fiction. The appropriate period is determined by consensus about when the author flourished. For example, an author commonly regarded as an early 19th century writer is classed as such, even if the author’s earliest works were published at the end of the 18th century. The majority of Steinbeck’s works were published before 1945 so he is classified at 813.52. Period tables are incorporated in DDC 22. Standard subdivisions used with literature in DDC 22 Standard subdivisions are not added for individual authors. For collections of works in specific forms, for example poetry by more than one author from more than one time period, use -008 as in 821.008. For history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author from more than one time period use -009 as in 821.009. When the works in a specific literary form cover only one time period the standard subdivision becomes -08 or -09 thus: -08 is added for collections by more than one author of a particular period; e.g. 821.108 for collections of English poetry from the early English period, 1066-1400 -09 is added for history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author of a particular period, for example 821.109. The application of these standard subdivisions for specific forms of literature and for particular periods is illustrated in the schedule for English poetry, following at 821. All forms of literature can be expanded according to the pattern for poetry. SCIS standards The SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry indicate the options in DDC that have been adopted or where occasionally SCIS deviates from DDC recommended practice. The following practices are accepted SCIS policy. • Australian and New Zealand literatures are distinguished by the initial letter A or NZ before the call number, for example A821.3 and NZ821.2. No other language literatures are given initial letters 3 • English, American (U.S. and Canada), Australian and New Zealand are the only English language literatures given period subdivisions, and therefore works about Alan Paton or Chinua Achebe are classed at 823 without period subdivisions • fiction in any language is classed at F • Shakespeare’s poetry is classed at 821.3 not 822.33 Y • general Shakespearean criticism is classified at 822.33 D. Book numbers To produce the book number for critical works, SCIS uses the first three letters of the surname of the author the work is evaluating, for example works about Jane Austen are classed at 823.7 AUS DDC 800 American literature includes English language literature of Canada, the United States, and South America. Period Tables for American and Canadian literature For United States 1 Colonial period, 1607-1776 2 1776-1829 3 1830-1861 Class here 19th century Class 1800-1829 in 2, 1861-1899 in 4 4 1861-1899 5 1900-1999 52 1900-1945 54 1945-1999 6 2000For Canada 3 Colonial period to 1867 4 1867-1899 5 1900-1999 52 1900-1945 54 1945-1999 6 2000811 American poetry 811.2 American poetry – 1776-1829 Moore, Clement C. 4 811.3 American poetry – 1830-1861 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Poe, Edgar Allan Whitman, Walt 811.4 American poetry – 1861-1899 Dickinson, Emily 811.5 American poetry – 1900-1999 Modern American poets 811.52 American poetry – 1900-1945 cummings,e e Frost, Robert Pound, Ezra Sandburg, Carl 811.54 American poetry – 1945-1999 Levertov, Denise Lowell, Robert Plath, Sylvia 811.6 American poetry – 2000812 American drama 812.5 Modern American dramatists 812.52 American drama – 1900-1945 O’Neill, Eugene Wilder, Thornton 812.54 American drama – 1945-1999 Albee, Edward Mamet, David Miller, Arthur Simon, Neil Williams, Tennessee 812.6 American drama – 2000813 American fiction Use F for works of fiction. Critical works here. 813.08 Specific kinds of fiction 813.0872 Detective, mystery, suspense, spy fiction 813.0876 Science and fantasy fiction 813.08762 Science fiction 813.08766 Fantasy 813.3 American fiction – 1830-1861 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 5 Melville, Herman Poe, Edgar Allan 813.4 American fiction – 1861-1900 Alcott, Louisa May Crane, Stephen James, Henry Twain, Mark 813.5 American fiction – 1900-1999 Modern American novelists 813.52 American fiction – 1900-1945 Chandler, Raymond Faulkner, William Fitzgerald, F. Scott Hemingway, Ernest Henry, O. Steinbeck, John 813.54 American fiction – 1945-1999 Atwood, Margaret Blume, Judy Bradbury, Ray Card, Orson Scott Cherryh, C.J. Cormier, Robert Heller, Joseph Herbert, Frank Hinton, S.E. Kingston, Maxine Hong Lee, Harper MacLeod, Alistair O’Brien, Robert Ondaatje, Michael Potok, Chaim Proulx, E. Annie Salinger, J.D. White, E.B. Yolen, Jane 813.6 American fiction – 2000814 American essays 814.3 American essays – 1830-1861 Class here 19th century Emerson, Ralph Waldo 6 814.5 American essays – 1900-1999 814.6 American essays – 2000815 American speeches in English 816 American letters 817 American satire and humour 818 American miscellaneous writings 820 English literature Period tables for English, Great Britain and Ireland 1 Early English period, 1066-1400 Class here medieval period 2 Pre-Elizabethan period, 1400-1588 3 Elizabethan period, 1588-1625 Including Jacobean period. Class here 16th century, Renaissance period. Class 1500-1588, the preElizabethan part of the Renaissance in 2 4 Post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 Including Caroline and Restoration periods 5 Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 Class here 18th century, class 1700-1702 in 4, 17451799 in 6 6 1745-1799 7 1800-1837 Class here Romantic period 8 Victorian period, 1837-1899 Class here 19th century, class 1800-1837 in 7 9 190091 1900-1999 912 1900-1945 914 1945-1999 92 2000821 English poetry 821.008 English poetry – Collections by more than one author from more than one period 821.009 English poetry – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author from more than one period 7 821.1 821.108 821.109 821.2 821.208 821.209 821.3 821.308 821.309 821.4 821.408 821.409 821.5 821.508 English poetry – early English period, 1066-1400 Chaucer, Geoffrey English poetry – early English period, 1066-1400 collections English poetry – early English period, 1066-1400 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author English poetry – pre-Elizabethan period, 1400-1558 Wyatt, Thomas English poetry – pre-Elizabethan period, 1400-1558 – collections English poetry –pre-Elizabethan period, 1400-1558 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author English poetry – Elizabethan period, 1558-1625 Donne, John Herbert, George Jonson, Ben Shakespeare, William Sidney, Philip Spenser, Edmund English poetry – Elizabethan period, 1558-1625 – collections English poetry – Elizabethan period, 1558-1625 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author English poetry – Post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 Crashaw, Richard Dryden, John Herrick, Robert Marvell, Andrew Milton, John English poetry - Post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 collections English poetry – Post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author. Class here Metaphysical poets. English poetry – Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 Pope, Alexander English poetry – Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 – collections 8 821.509 English poetry – Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.6 English poetry – later 18th century, 1745-1799 Blake, William Burns, Robert Cowper, William Goldsmith, Oliver Gray, Thomas 821.608 English poetry –later 18th century, 1745-1799 – collections 821.609 English poetry –later 18th century, 1745-1799 history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.7 English poetry – early 19th century, 1800-1837 Byron, George Gordon Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Keats, John Moore, Thomas Scott, Walter (as a poet) Shelley, Percy Bysshe Southey, Robert Wordsworth, William 821.708 English poetry – early 19th century, 1800-1837 – collections 821.709 English poetry – early 19th century, 1800-1837 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.8 English poetry – Victorian period, 1837-1899 Bridges, Robert Browning, Elizabeth B. Browning, Robert Hardy, Thomas (as a poet) Hopkins, Gerard Manley Morris, William Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Swinburne, Algernon Charles Tennyson, Alfred 821.808 English poetry – Victorian period, 1837-1899 – collections 821.809 English poetry – Victorian period, 1837-1899 - history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.9 English poetry – 1900Modern English poets 821.908 English poetry – 1900-collections 9 821.909 English poetry – 1900- -history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.912 English poetry – 1900-1945 Auden, W.H. Brooke, Rupert Day Lewis, C. Eliot, T.S. Owen, Wilfred Thomas, Dylan Yeats, W.B. 821.91208 English poetry – 1900-1945 – collections 821.91209 English poetry – 1900-1945 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.914 English poetry – 1945-1999 Heaney, Seamus Hughes, Ted Larkin, Philip 821.91408 English poetry – 1945-1999 – collections 821.91409 English poetry – 1945-1999 – history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 821.92 English poetry -2000821.9208 English poetry -2000- - collections 821.9209 English poetry -2000- - history, description, critical appraisal, biography of more than one author 822 822.3 English drama English drama – Elizabethan period, 1558-1625 Jonson, Ben Marlowe, Christopher Middleton, Thomas Tourneur, Cyril Webster, John 822.33 Shakespeare, William B D E F G H I J Biography Criticism Textual criticism Sources Concordances, miscellany Quotations, condensations, adaptations Complete works in English without notes Complete works in English with notes 10 L Partial collections in English without notes M Partial collections in English with notes N Partial collections in translation O-Z Individual works Use the first number of each pair for texts, the second for description and critical appraisal. Class poems in 821.3 O-R Comedies O1-2 All’s well that ends well O3-4 As you like it O5-6 The comedy of errors O7-8 Love’s labours lost P1-2 Measure for measure P3-4 The merchant of Venice P5-6 The merry wives of Windsor P7-8 A midsummer night’s dream Q1-2 Much ado about nothing Q3-4 The taming of the shrew Q5-6 The tempest Q7-8 Twelfth night R1-2 The two gentlemen of Verona R3-4 The winter’s tale S-V Tragedies S1-2 Antony and Cleopatra S3-4 Coriolanus S5-6 Cymbeline S7-8 Hamlet T1-2 Julius Caesar T3-4 King Lear T5-6 Macbeth T7-8 Othello U1-2 Pericles U3-4 Romeo and Juliet U5-6 Timon of Athens U7-8 Titus Andronicus V1-2 Troilus and Cressida W-X Histories W1-2 Henry IV, parts 1-2 W3-4 Henry V W5-6 Henry VI, parts 1-3 W7-8 Henry VIII X1-2 King John X3-4 Richard II X5-6 Richard III 11 822.4 English drama – post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 Congreve , William Farquhar, George 822.5 English drama – Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 Gay, John 822.6 English drama – Later 18th century, 1745-1799 Garrick, David Goldsmith, Oliver Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 822.7 English drama – early 19th century, 1800-1837 822.8 English drama – Victorian period, 1837-1899 Wilde, Oscar 822.9 English drama – 1900Modern English dramatists 822.912 English drama – 1900-1945 Eliot, T.S. O’Casey, Sean Rattigan, Terence Shaw, George Bernard Thomas, Dylan 822.914 English drama – 1945-1999 Arden, John Ayckbourn, Alan Bolt, Robert Clark, Brian Hare, David Osborne, John Pinter, Harold Russell, Willy Shaffer, Peter Stoppard, Tom Wesker, Arnold 822.92 English drama – 2000- 823 English fiction Use F for works of fiction. Critical works appear here. For writers in English, but who are not American, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand, no period subdivisions are used. Achebe, Chinua Coetzee, J.M. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, Shiva 12 Seth, Vikram 823.08 Specific kinds of fiction 823.0872 Detective, mystery, suspense, spy fiction 823.0876 Science and fantasy fiction 823.08762 Science fiction 823.08766 Fantasy 823.1 English fiction – early English period, 1066-1400 823.2 English fiction – pre-Elizabethan period, 1400-1558 More, Thomas 823.3 English fiction – Elizabethan period, 1588-1625 823.4 English fiction – post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 Bunyan, John 823.5 English fiction – Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 Defoe, Daniel Fielding, Henry Swift, Jonathan 823.6 English fiction – later 18th century, 1745-1799 Goldsmith, Oliver Radcliffe, Ann Richardson, Samuel Smollett, Tobias George Sterne, Laurence 823.7 English fiction – early 19th century, 1800-1837 Austen, Jane Edgeworth, Maria Peacock, Thomas Love Scott, Walter Shelley, Mary 823.8 English fiction – Victorian period, 1837-1899 Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickens, Charles Eliot, George Gaskell, Elizabeth Hardy, Thomas Thackeray, William M Trollope, Anthony 823.9 English fiction – 1900Modern English novelists 823.912 English fiction – 1900-1945 Christie, Agatha Conrad, Joseph Forster, E.M. 13 Greene, Graham Huxley, Aldous Joyce, James Lawrence, D.H. Lewis, C.S. Orwell, George Potter, Beatrix Sackville-West, Victoria (Vita) Tolkien, J.R.R. Woolf, Virginia 823.914 English fiction – 1945-1999 Ballard, J.G. Briggs, Raymond Byatt, A.S. Dahl, Roald Drabble, Margaret Fowles, John Golding, William James, P.D. Le Carre, John Rushdie, Salman Trapido, Barbara Weldon, Fay 823.92 English fiction – 2000Smith, Zadie 824 824.3 824.4 824.5 824.6 824.7 824.8 English essay English essay – Elizabethan period, 1558-1625 Bacon, Francis English essay – post-Elizabethan period, 1625-1702 English essay – Queen Anne period, 1702-1745 Addison, Joseph Steele, Richard English essay – later 18th century, 1745-1799 Gibbon, Edward Goldsmith, Oliver Johnson, Samuel English essay – early 19th century, 1800-1837 Hazlitt, William Hunt, Leigh Lamb, Charles English essay – Victorian period, 1837-1899 Arnold, Matthew 14 Carlyle, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Macaulay, Thomas Babington Ruskin, John 824.9 English essay – 1990Modern English essayists 824.912 English essay – 1900-1945 Greene, Graham Huxley, Aldous Woolf, Virginia 824.914 English essay – 1945-1999 Chatwin, Bruce Rushdie, Salman 824.92 English essay – 2000825 English speeches 826 English letters 827 English satire and humour 828 English miscellaneous writings A820 Australian literature Period subdivisions for Australian literature 1 Early period to 1889 2 Early 20th century, 1890-1945 3 Later 20th century, 1945-1999 Class here 20th century 4 2000A821 Australian poetry A821.1 Australian poetry – early period to 1889 Gordon, Adam Lindsay A821.2 Australian poetry – early 20th century, 1890-1945 Brennan, Christopher Dennis, C.J. Lawson, Henry Mackellar, Dorothea Neilson, John Shaw O’Brien, John Paterson, A.B. Slessor, Kenneth Stewart, Douglas A821.3 Australian poetry – later 20th century, 1945-1999 Beveridge, Judith Dawe, Bruce 15 Dobson, Rosemary Fitzgerald, Robert D. Harwood, Gwen Herrick, Steven Komninos McAuley, James Murray, Les Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) Rodriguez, Judith Skrzynecki, Peter Tranter, John Walwicz, Ania Westbury, Deb Wright, Judith A821.4 Australian poetry – 2000Watson, Samuel Wagan A822 Australian drama A822.3 Australian drama – later 20th century, 1945-1999 Beynon, Richard Buzo, Alexander Caswell, Robert Davis, Jack Gow, Michael Harrison, Jane Hewett, Dorothy Hibberd, Jack Lawler, Ray Misto, John Nowra, Louis Rankin, Scott Rayson, Hannie Strachan, Tony Thomson, Katherine Williamson, David A822.4 Australian drama – 2000A823 Australian fiction Use F for works of fiction. Critical works here A823.1 Australian fiction – early period to 1889 Boldrewood, Rolf Clarke, Marcus 16 A823.2 Australian fiction – early 20th century, 1890-1945 Davison, Frank Dalby Franklin, Miles Furphy, Joseph Gibbs, May Lawson, Henry Prichard, Katharine Susannah Richardson, Henry Handel Stead, Christina Wall, Dorothy A823.3 Australian fiction – later 20th century, 1945-1999 Astley, Thea Baillie, Allan Bedford, Jean Boyd, Martin Caswell, Brian Carey, Peter Grenville, Kate Goldsworthy, Peter Hospital, Janette Turner Johnson, Colin (also Mudrooroo) Johnson, George Keneally, Thomas Klein, Robin Malouf, David McCarthy, Maureen Monk, Scott Morgan, Sally Park, Ruth Sallis, Eva Stow, Randolph Tennant, Kylie White, Patrick Winton, Tim A823.4 Australian fiction – 2000A824 Australian essay A825 Australian speeches A826 Australian letters A827 Australian satire and humour A828 Australian miscellaneous writings NZ820 New Zealand Literature Period divisions for New Zealand literature 17 1 Early period to 1907 2 1907-1999 3 2000NZ821 New Zealand poetry NZ821.1 New Zealand poetry –early period to 1907 NZ821.2 New Zealand poetry – 1907-1999 Dodd, Lynley Tuwhare, Hone NZ821.3 New Zealand poetry – 2000NZ822 NZ822.1 NZ822.2 NZ822.3 New Zealand drama New Zealand drama – early period to 1907 New Zealand drama – 1907-1999 New Zealand drama – 2000- NZ823 New Zealand fiction (Use F for works of fiction. Critical works here) NZ823.1 New Zealand fiction – early period to 1907 NZ823.2 New Zealand fiction – 1907-1999 Hulme, Keri Frame, Janet Mansfield, Katherine NZ823.3 New Zealand fiction – 2000- Some examples for literature in languages other than English 830 831 832 832.912 German literature German poetry German drama German drama, 1900-1945 Brecht, Bertolt 833 German fiction 833.912 German fiction, 1900-1945 Hesse, Hermann 839.82 Norwegian literature 839.8226Norwegian drama, 1800-1899 Ibsen, Henrik 840 842.4 French literature French drama, Classical period, 1600-1715 18 Corneille, Pierre 843.8 French fiction, 1848-1899 Flaubert, Gustave Zola, Emile 843.914 French fiction, 1945-1999 Maalouf, Amin 850 Italian literature 853.914 Italian fiction, 1945-1999 Calvino, Italo 860 Spanish literature 863.64 Spanish fiction, 1945-1999 Allende, Isabel 870 Latin literature 880 Classical Greek literature 882.01 Classical Greek drama, Ancient period to ca. 499 Euripides The Dewey Decimal Classification System is used with the permission of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), the copyright holder of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. DDC, Dewey and Dewey Decimal Classification are registered trademarks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. © Copyright New South Wales Department of Education and Training Revised and updated edition published by the School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit, Curriculum K-12 Directorate, 2004. 19
