A searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The collection features 36 plays and over 52,000 pages of prose, some dating back to the 16th century.
A collection of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Gale Literature Resource Center brings together materials that support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.
Includes: Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Novels for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, and Poetry Criticism
NoveList Plus makes searching for your next read -- or listen -- a snap. Its database of hundreds of thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles for readers of all ages is searchable by subject, genre, setting, kinds of characters and more. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
TeachingBooks provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, and a wealth of multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas.
Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
Covers more than 316 of the most important and studied American poets and includes over 52,000 works. Includes the works of most major twentieth-century American poets, beginning with the traditionalists; continuing through the modernists, represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens; and moving on to the contemporary works of the 1990s.
Containing over 44,000 works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry is the most complete overview collection of poetry in English and by far the largest electronic anthology of its kind. It provides an unprecedented overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.
Search the collections of more than 9,000 libraries to locate hard-to-find books, movies and music. Place requests to borrow items from across the country using the Interlibrary Loan Service.
