ENGLISH 355 - LIBRARY RESOURCES
Novels since 1900

Course Material
These items are held in the Short Loan Collection, Level 1, Kate Edger Information Commons. 
Voyager searches
Search strategies to find books on the course topics.
Reference Books
For help with literary terminology, approaches to reading and criticism, and further reading.
Database Searches
Find journal articles and book chapters by searching a database. Most articles are full-text.
Internet Resources
Internet sites selected by the Subject Librarian.
Exam Papers
Previous years' exam papers. You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these.

When writing your assignment, please ensure that you cite correctly any of the resources used from this page.
Can you identify the publication types on your reading list?

James Joyce, from Literature Online

Linda George
Subject Librarian:
English Literature

Arts Information Services
Level 1, General Library
University of Auckland
5 Alfred Street, Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142
New Zealand 
Phone: 64 - 9 - 3737 599 ext. 87347

l.george@auckland.ac.nz

 


Course Material
Most items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.

Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 220. Click search.

Voyager Searches
Learn how to use Voyager, enrol in a Library course

The following searches are Subject Heading searches.

Since students are not expect to read much criticism for this course, but rely on their own encounters with the novels, the search strategies suggested below are deliberately general and retrieve books that deal with reading and analysis:
style literary  
fiction technique
books and reading
fiction 20th century history and criticism
english fiction history and criticism
english fiction 20th century history and criticism
american fiction 20th century history and criticism
holocaust jewish 1939-1945 in literature
Click on the button shown to the left of your search results. The next page shows a list of narrower or alternative terms to search. 

Search tip: To see the most recently published books at the top of the results list, click on the pull-down menu arrow of the   box and select

Authors' names can be used as a Subject Heading to find books about them and their work:
 
delillo don
forster e m
kafka franz
joyce james
garcía márquez gabriel
rhys jean
wiesel elie
woolf virginia

Choose the subdivision 'criticism and interpretation' or any other relevant heading. Sometimes the title of a specific work is a heading.

For authors where few books of criticism and interpretation are shown, use a database to find chapters in books and journal articles, or use the author's name enclosed byhhhhhh " " in a Keyword Relevance search in Voyager.

Reference Books
For more information about reference books, and a more extensive list, see Reference Resources for English

Amoia, Alba, and Bettina L. Knapp, eds. Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
[Has entries on Jean Rhys and Elie Wiesel]

Childs, Peter, and Roger Fowler, eds. Routledge dictionary of literary terms. London: Routledge, 2006.

Johnson, Claudia D., and Vernon E., eds. The social impact of the novel : a reference guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Kennedy, X. J., Dana Gioia, and Mark Bauerlein. The Longman dictionary of literary terms : vocabulary for the informed reader. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.

Parker, Peter, ed. The reader's companion to the twentieth century novel. London: Fourth Estate ; Oxford: Helicon, 1994.

Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles on specific authors studies for this this course, online via the Cambridge Collections Online database. The links below take you to the print edition in Voyager where a print copy is available. To get the most from the database, enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection, especially on authors and works not listed in the titles below.

Attridge, Derek, eds. The Cambridge companion to James Joyce. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Bradshaw, David, ed. The Cambridge companion to E. M. Forster. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Duvall, John D., ed. The Cambridge companion to Don DeLillo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
[this title is available only in Cambridge Collections Online]

Preece, Julian, ed. The Cambridge companion to Kafka. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Roe, Sue, and Susan Sellers, eds. The Cambridge companion to Virginia Woolf. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Database Searches
For help with using databases, please contact the Subject Librarian

The following databases will provide references to material on all authors and topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these databases.

ABELL+FT - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters and journal articles. Some journal articles are full text. Where full text is unavailable, use the What is FindFullText link? symbol to search Voyager.

MLA International Bibliography - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters, and journal articles. It has a higher proportion of book chapters than ABELL+FT. Use the What is FindFullText link? symbol to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided through the Voyager catalogue record. 

Literature Online - all the authors studied on this course are represented in Literature Online. Type an author's name in  the QUICK SEARCH to retrieve a summary of all the material available within the database. You may find primary material [texts], secondary material [criticism, some of which will be full text], reference sources [full text], and web sites. This type of search is intended to give an overview of a writer's work and the commentary around it, and may retrieve large results. For more specific searching on a particular text or topic, use either of the databases above.

From Literature Online's Knowledge Notes™. These guides provide a background to the text and can be used in conjunction with other material you find in Voyager the online catalogue, or from any of the other resources on this page.

Internet Resources
You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites.

James Joyce Resource Center


Contact: l.george@auckland.ac.nz
File Last updated: February 26, 2010