Literature and Language Arts
Based on Facts on Files' extensive print literature collection, Bloom's Literary Reference Online examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history. It contains information on thousands of authors and their works, as well as thirty-five thousand characters, an extensive glossary, and more.
Looking for a poem? Search for a poem by author, title, first line, last line, subject, or keyword. Some poem listings contain the full text of the poem, a biography of the poet, and poem commentary discussing the poem's meaning.
Read biographies of contemporary novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters. This resource includes more than one hundred twenty thousand US and international authors including commonly studied literary greats.
Learn about some of today's most popular contemporary authors such as Tom Clancy, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham, James Herriott, Stephen King, Anne McCaffrey, Larry McMurtry, and Amy Tan while gaining insight into the characters, plot, and themes of some of your favorite books.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective indexes essays and articles published between 1900-1984. Subject coverage ranges from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
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Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is available on Android and iOS.
Writer's Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this online resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing and provides a wealth of vocabulary-building reference dictionaries.
Literature Criticism Online presents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres. It includes the following print titles: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review.
Literature Criticism Online is available on Android and iOS.
This resource contains historical documents, timelines, glossaries, and commentary to help today's reader understand the historical, social, and cultural context that shaped classic literature. It features some of the most studied novels in the classroom.
Learn about authors and literature including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. You will find extensive author information, critical analysis, timelines, links to related websites, and more. It includes Lit Finder, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors Series.
Search over thirty thousand plays written from antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
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Shakespeare Collection provides access to an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, The Prompt Book collections, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary, criticism, reviews, images, and more.
Short Story Index Retrospective is an index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Coverage dates are 1915 to 1983.
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Something About the Author Online covers the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. In addition to the information found in the print version of this reference source, the online edition also includes hundreds of specially commissioned autobiographical essays that are illustrated with personal photos and present an entertaining and informative first-person perspective on the lives and careers of these authors and illustrators.
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