Library Resources for WR150:
Writing Modern Irish Identities

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

  • Ireland -- In Literature
  • Joyce, James, 1882-1941-- Criticism and interpretation
  • Poets, Irish -- 20th Century -- Biography
  • Yeats, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation

 

REFERENCE WORKS.

American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism  (2 vols.) 
   Mugar Ref. X  Z1231 .P7 A44 1984 (at Reference Desk)

An Annotated Critical Bibliography of James Joyce
   Mugar Ref. X  Z8458.1 .S73 1989

Critical Companion to James Joyce: A Literary Companion to His Life and Work
   Mugar Ref. X  PR6019 .O9 Z533376 2006

Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series  (8 vols.)
   Mugar Ref. X  PR502 .C85 1982

Guide to British Prose Fiction Explication: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
   Mugar Ref. X  PR861 .B38 1997

An International Companion to the Poetry of W.B. Yeats 
   Mugar Ref. X  PR5907 .B79 1990

James Joyce A to Z
   Mugar Ref. X  PR6019 .O9 Z533376 1995

Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
   Mugar Ref. X  PR8727 .G66 1997

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (5 vols.)
   Mugar Ref. X  PR19 .O95 2006

Seamus Heaney: A Reference Guide 
   Mugar Ref. X  Z8393.6 .D87 1996

W.B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism 
   Mugar Ref. X  Z8992 .J59 1990

A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia 
   Mugar Ref. X  PR5906 .M44 1997

 

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

Contemporary Authors/Contemporary Literary Criticism/Dictionary of Literary Biography [About]

Humanities Fulltext [About]

JSTOR [About]

LION: Literature Online [About]

MLA Bibliography [About]

Project Muse [About]

 

INTERNET RESOURCES.

CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts

Irish Writers Online

Poetry Archive

Voice of the Shuttle: Ireland

 

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Grammar and Citation Guides

Guide to Library Research

Locating Full-Text Articles

RefWorks - a citation management tool for organizing your references

Virtual Tour


Barbara Maratos, Reference Librarian, Mugar Memorial Library

Last Updated February 21, 2009

http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/wr150irish.html

 

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