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Literature Resource Centre

The most comprehensive and up-to-date interdisciplinary online reference solution for research on literary figures, genres of writing and literary criticism.

Main Features
 
Broad, comprehensive content: which Includes:
  • Nearly 137,000 author biographies on more than 126,000 authors
  • More than 600,000 critical essays and reviews
  • More than 5,000 work overviews and explications of prominent literary works
  • More than 6,500 timeline events to help place literature in context
  • Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature featuring 10,000 definitions and descriptive entries on literary figures, works and literary terms
  • Links to approximately 5,000 websites 
                  

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New and updated periodical and reference material is continually added to Literature Resource Center. Web sites are also verified/modified routinely, while death dates, major awards, major literary works, newsworthy events or career-related events are added or updated to biographical essays to keep content current, accurate and reliable.
 
Interdisciplinary
 
Literature Resource Center offers a wealth of information in an extensive interdisciplinary approach which encourages users to examine literature and related disciplines in a broad context. As well as covering well-known literatu authors, the database contains research information on a whole host of figures including Benito Mussolini, Pablo Picasso, Bob Dylan and Sigmund Freud.
Literature Resource Center is designed for those engaged in critical analysis of literature and related subjects such as economics, music, psychology, art history, film, politics, gender studies, post-colonial studies and theatre studies.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
 
Literature Resource Center is available with the premier tool for academic researchers in the humanities, the Modern Language Association International Bibliography. This integrated product gives researchers access to more than 1.7 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present alongside author biographies, critical essays and journal articles in every literary genre. Also included is the MLA Directory of Periodicals featuring over 4,400 entries on scholarly journals.