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Course Guide:

English 320 : Continental Literature

Professor Loretta Shelton

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HELIN offers two search types: Heading and Keyword.

Heading Searches:

Dante's Inferno Headings searches are by Subject heading, Author or Title.

Look for words that match the search word, or follow it alphabetically.
Display subheadings which can be very useful when searching broad topic areas.
Can often provide accurate results when searching for broad topic areas.

Use this type of search when you know the name of an author, a correct title, or a Library of Congress Subject Heading.

Sample subject headings for this class:

Topic	Subject Heading
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)	Dostoyevsky Fyodor 1821 1881 Criticism And Interpretation Dostoyevsky Fyodor 1821 1881 Characters Raskolnikov
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)	Ibsen Henrik 1828 1906 Criticism And Interpretation
Don Quixote (Cervantes)	Don Quixote Cervantes Saavedra Miguel De 1547 1616
Faust (as a character)	Faust D Ca 1540 In Literature
The Inferno (Dante)	Dante Alighieri 1265 1321 Criticism And Interpretation
Johann W. Goethe	Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von 1749 1832 Criticism And Interpretation
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)	Flaubert Gustave 1821 1880 Criticism And Interpretation
The Magic Mountain Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)	Mann Thomas 1875 1955 Criticism And Interpretation
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)	Kafka Franz 1883 1924 Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis] Criticism And Interpretation
Rouge et Noir (Stendhal)	Rouge Et Le Noir Stendhal 1783 1842
The Transformations of Lucius; Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass (Apuleius)	Apuleius. Metamorphoses.
Tristan & Isolde (as characters)	Tristan Legendary Character Romances Iseult Legendary Character Romances

Keyword Searching:

Use this type of search when you do not know the proper LC Subject heading for your topic, or when you know some of the words but not all the words in a title. Or to expand or narrow your search.

Allows you to use Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT) to broaden , narrow, or define your search.
Allows for truncation of search terms.

Sample keyword searches for this class:

Tristan and Isolde
Continental Literature
German Literature
Russian Literature
Spanish Literature

HELIN Library Catalog - The combined library catalog of RWU, PC, URI, RIC, CCRI, Salve, JWU, Bryant, Wheaton, and Brown

InRhode - to find books in both the HELIN Library Catalog and Brown's Library Catalog, Josiah

Find articles in online databases

Academic Search Premier - Ebsco	General periodical index providing full text for nearly 3,460 scholarly publications.
AH Search	Citations to articles in the arts and humanities.
Britannica Online	Encyclopedia articles with links to Internet resources.
Contemporary Literary Criticism	Excerpts from criticism published on authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.
Gale's Literature Resource Center	Full-text online access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
JSTOR	Browse or search the full text back files of publications in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
MLA Bibliography	An index to literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas	A searchable version of Gale's New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. The History of Ideas deals with topics (both current and historic) in the intellectual life of human beings.
Project Muse	A collection of 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
WorldCat	Worldwide catalog of books and other materials.

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