Finding Books
Searches books, journal titles, government documents, videos, and compact discs.
HELIN offers two search types: Heading and Keyword.
Heading Searches:
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:
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:
cultural and materialism
Freud and literature
Derrida and Literature
Shakespeare and witchcraft
women and Elizabethan
Reference Materials
- Dictionary of Cultural Theorists
- REF B41 D5 1999
- A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
- REF PN41 C83 1998
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory
- REF PN81 E43 1993
- Shakespearean Criticism (vols. 1-86.)
- REF PR2965 S43
Finding Articles using Online Databases
Academic Search Premier - Ebsco
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General periodical index providing full text for nearly 3,460 scholarly publications. |
| AH Search |
Citations to articles in the arts and humanities. |
Britannica Online
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Encyclopedia articles with links to Internet resources. |
Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Excerpts from criticism published on authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. |
Gale's Literature Resource Center
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Full-text online access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. |
JSTOR
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Browse or search the full text back files of publications in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. |
MLA Bibliography
Links to Some Full Text |
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 journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. |
| PsycINFO |
Online version of Psychology Abstracts (PsychLIT). Choose to search databases covering years 1887 to present. |
| WorldCat |
Worldwide catalog of books and other materials. |
Finding Information on the Web
Literary Criticism Resources:
- Literary Theory and Cultural Studies by Jack Lynch.
- An annotated guide to many sites covering formalism through postmodernism
- LitLinks: Critical Theory from A-Z by Bedford/St. Martin's Press.
- Provides biographical information and more links on major theorists.
- Literary Criticism and Critical Theory by TCG.
- Provides background information and links on reader-response, archetypical/myth criticism, postcolonialism, new historicism, etc.
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought by Martin Ryder.
- Comprehensive information on theorists like Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Terry Eagleton, Stanley Fish, etc.
- Introductory Guide to Critical Theory by Dino Fellugo.
- Provides an excellent and comprehensive breakdown of concepts pertaining to psychoanalysis, postmodernism, new historicism, etc.
- Introduction to Modern Literary Theory by Kristi Siegel.
- This site gives definitions of and references and links to the various theoretical schools and movements.
- Introduction to Postcolonial Studies by Emory University's English Department.
- Covers major issues and figures within the field.
- Women's Studies Resources: Feminist Theory by Karla Tonella.
- An annotated site linking to reviews, essays, reviews, and biographies relating to feminist theorists of past and present.
Shakespeare Resources:
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Treasures in Full Shakespeare in Quatro
- From the British Librar
- Internet Public Library
- A collection of scholarly criticism about Shakespeare.
- Early Modern Literary Studies
- A fully searchable scholarly journal devoted to the study of sixteenth and seventeenth century English language, literature and culture. Includes many articles on Shakespeare and Elizabethan times.
- Elizabethan England
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- Shakespeare Resource Center
- Includes information on the Globe theater, Elizabethan England and the Shakespearean authorship debate.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet by Terry A. Gray.
- A guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet with many links.
Bible Resources:
- All in One Biblical Resources
- Conceived by Dr Mark Goodacre, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham, U.K. Includes sections on Biblical Resources and Bible Versions and Translations.
- Art History Resources on the Web by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College
- CHRISTUS REX
- "CHRISTUS REX is a a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world. They intend to assemble a collection of images that will constitute a visual representation of the Bible, ad maiorem gloriam Dei! (for the greater glory of God!) The Vatican collection comprises over 1200 images, and they have started building the data base for a world wide tour of churches and monasteries, comprising in excess of 5000 images.
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- Connecticut College's Wetmore Print Collection
- Contains over 1000 prints, including Rembrandt's "Bible" etchings and Albrecht Durer's religious woodcuts and engravings. Available from the Connecticut College web site.
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- Early Christian Writings
- New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Fathers
- English Literature and Religion
- Here you will find primary texts. "This Web site offers a large bibliographical database about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century, with primary (though not exclusive) emphasis upon writers within the Anglican tradition." — William S. Peterson
- Graduate Theological Union - Flora Lamson Hewlett Library
- Large, lightly annotated, collection of Internet resources for religious research from the library of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) consortium in Berkeley, California.
- History of the World from a Biblical Perspective
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- Islamic Studies: Islam, Arabic, and Religion
- From a professor of religion at the University of Georgia. A collection of annotated sites about the Qur'an, Sufism, Sunni, Islam in the modern world, women's rights, art, architecture, music, Arabic language study, and more
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- Portals to the World
- Resources selected by the Library of Congress, each country guide offers a section on Religion and Philosophy
- Templar History.com
- Quite commercial in tone, but does provide information on Templar history, mysteries and myths, the Crusades, the Holy Grail, whether the Templars had the Ark of the Covenant and masonic Templar regalia.
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
- Provides a side-by-side presentation of both the King James and the Revised Standard editions of the Bible.
