Library Resources for WR150: Short Stories, Many Voices

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

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

  • American Literature—20th Century—History and Criticism
  • Short Stories, American—History and Criticism
  • African Americans in Literature
  • Ethnicity in Literature
  • James, Henry, 1843-1916

 

REFERENCE WORKS.

The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story(BU-px)

Encyclopedia Britannica Online(BU-px)

Encyclopedia of American Social History.  1993.

              Mugar Ref. X  HN57 .E58 1993

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance.  2004.

              Mugar Ref. X  NX512.3.A35 E53 2004

Oxford Companion to American Literature(BU-px)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.

              Mugar Ref. X PS21 .E537 2004

Oxford English Dictionary Online(BU-px)

A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English.  2001.

              Mugar Ref. X PS374 .S5 R43 2001

 

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

America: History and Life

Contemporary Authors/Contemporary Literary Criticism/Dictionary of Literary Biography

Humanities Fulltext

JSTOR

MLA Bibliography

Project Muse

 

INTERNET RESOURCES.

American Memory

Documenting the American South

Southern Oral History Program

 

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Grammar and Citation Guides

Guide to Library Research

Locating Full-Text Articles


Barbara Maratos, Reference Librarian, Mugar Memorial Library

Updated May 15, 2008

http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/wr150shortstories.html

 

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