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Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Included in Literature Resource Center is:
- Biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors, from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale sources, providing detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works
- More than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 390 scholarly journals and literary magazines
- More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review
- More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
- More than 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays
- More than 8,500 interviews
- Nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2,800 author portraits
- The ability to identify authors and works that share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender
- Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms
New and updated material is added continuously. Materials from forthcoming volumes of Gale's print literature series are added to Literature Resource Center throughout the year, along with full-text journal articles and Web sites. Web sites are checked and death dates, major awards, major literary works, newsworthy events and career-related events are added to biographical essays to keep content accurate and reliable.
Literature Resource Center subscribers can choose to add any of the following products as fully integrated modules:
- Scribner Writers Series, a collection of more than 2,200 original, scholar-signed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world
- Twayne's Authors Series, featuring the content of nearly 600 books in three print series, this series offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and the development of literary genres
- The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography, is the leading scholarly bibliography in world languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics and film since 1926. Literature Resource Center subscribers who add the MLA International Bibliography also get the MLA International Bibliography on InfoTrac as a standalone electronic resource at no extra cost.
- Improved usability based on extensive research into end-user needs
- Cross-searchability with LitFinder, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and Book Review Index
- Publication search
- "How to Cite" feature with export to citation tools
- Multiple options for sorting and filtering results
- Enhanced Person Search and Title Search options
- Browsable search indexes
- Alerts
- And much more
Review:
"Gale Cengage's main literature offering delves deep into a broad range of content, containing criticism, biographies (130,000), primary sources, and multimedia. Multimedia are especially rich compared with other products, comprising web sites, images, sales stats, and audio such as NPR transcripts and links to audio segments available online."
--Library Journal, November 15, 2008
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