LibGuides: CW 480: Creative Writing Senior Seminar I: Recommended Research Resources

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive English language dictionary, the OED provides meanings, history, and pronunciation for words, present and past.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Great place to start your research! Search across hundreds of reference titles and link out to other library databases.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Comprehensive and authoritative reference on all aspects of poetry.

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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly journals and access to JSTOR E-books.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
A collection of high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals and e-books.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and full text links (when available)to journal articles, books and dissertations in the fields of literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary academic database covering scholarly journals, newspapers, and more. An excellent place to begin your research.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides information about authors and their works. Includes author biographies, interviews, plot summaries, literary criticism, full-text literary journals, book reviews and more.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
An electronic library of literary information including literary criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, and periodical articles.
Salem Literature This link opens in a new window
Online access to Salem's Survey of Long Fiction and many titles in their Critical Insights series.

The Writer's Chronicle Featured Archive

This archive contains more than 1,100 articles from current and past issues of the Writer's Chronicle as well as online exclusive articles about writing and pedagogy. Many articles are available only to members

The Writer's Chronicle Featured Archive

The Paris Review-- Interviews

Authors discuss their life and writing in revealing conversations in The Paris Review’s Writers at Work interview series.

The Paris Review -- Interviews

CW 480: Creative Writing Senior Seminar I

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