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Genre Literature Resources

Sometimes you need to locate specific resources on a particular genre. Here's a list of Reference books to get you started. Once you've located these, keep in mind you can look in the Main Collection Stacks in the same call number to find more relevant materials, ones that you can check out.


Poetry & Drama

  • The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 1993. Reference 808.1 N42P
  • Critical Survey of Poetry: English language series. 1982. Reference 821.009 C86
  • World Poets. 2000. Reference 808.1 W927w
  • Last Lines: an index to the last lines of poetry. 1991. Reference 808.81 K65L
  • Critical Survey of Drama. 2003. Reference 822.009 C934c2
  • Encyclopedia of Literary Epics. 1996. Reference 809.1 J12e
  • Encyclopedia of Beat Literature. 2007. Reference 810.9 E563e


Fiction

  • Fiction Catalog. 15th ed. 2006. Reference 016.813 W69
  • Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. 16 volumes. 1996. Reference 809.3 B36b
  • Critical Survey of Short Fiction. 7 volumes. 1993. Reference 809.3 C93c
  • Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 8 volumes. 2000. Reference 809.3 C93cL
  • Novel Openers: First sentences of 11,000 fictional works, topically arranged with subject, keyword. 1995. Reference 808.83 W36n
  • Encyclopedia of the Novel. 1998. Reference 809.3 E56e
  • The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. With a catalogue of 1375 magazine novels and novelettes. 1962. Reference 823.09 M45
  • Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature. 2005. Reference 809.911 S673e
  • The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. 1990. Reference 820.9 B57f
  • Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. 1998. Reference 803 E56e
  • Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. 1996. Reference 810.9 B61b

 

Nonfiction

  • Encyclopedia of the Essay. 1997. Reference 809.4 E56e

 

Christian

  • Faith Reads: A selective guide to Christian nonfiction. 2008. Reference 016.23 R135f
  • Christian fiction: A guide to the genre. 2002. Reference 809.3 M84c


Other Research Tools

  • Credo Reference
    A conglomeration of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias that allows you to search for definitions and encyclopedia articles, as well as develop ideas for expanding or refining a research strategy.
  • Oxford Reference Premium Online  
    Oxford University Press produces a number of extremely useful reference materials, many of which they have made available here. You can search by keyword, but you can also choose particular subjects and from there, particular books within which to search. This willl provide you with all sorts of background and broad spectrum information on a particular topic.
  • Biography Resource Center  
    Find background information about people, authors, famous personalities, and others. Search by first or last name. 


Citation Help

One of the least favorite aspects of research papers are the citations, documenting the sources where you gleaned your information. To make that a little easier, the Library offers a few resources.

  • The Citation Style Guide is a place where you can find call numbers for print Style Manuals and Handbooks, as well as online help from several different universities around the States. Check it out and see if it helps!
  • RefWorks
    is a Citation Management program. Fully available online, and linked from the Library's home page, it allows you to keep it all ELECTRONIC. Download your citations from the various databases you're using into RefWorks. This program will create the Works Cited page for you with little effort. In a database, look for the option to EXPORT - that is where you'll find this gem of a program.
  • Automatically Generated Citations can be found in our Library Catalog (to the right of the item on the Results page), as well as in most EBSCO databases (like Academic Search Premier, PsycINFO, Communications and Mass Media Complete, etc.). Most databases either provide an instant citation in a couple of different styles, or they allow Exporting to RefWorks (see above). Ask a Librarian for more help in managing your citations and creating your bibliographies and works cited pages faster.
  • WorldCat.org
    "Cite this item" within individual item record lists the citation in APA, MLA, Chicago and more.
  • The Writing Center is also a solid resource. Available in the Library, this is run by the English department. If you'd like face-to-face help individually with citing or any aspect of writing and editing your paper, the Writing Center is the place to go. For more information, see their page on the Portal, or you can contact them at writingctr@taylor.edu.

 

Created by Lana Wilson, Reference Librarian

Last revised October 14, 2009 - 10:27 AM