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This library guide was designed by Gina Bastone, the English Librarian, specifically for E 349S: Faulkner and Paredes, taught by Prof. Lydia CdeBaca-Cruz.

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Email Gina, your course librarian, if you run into issues finding articles and books. Her email address is g.bastone@austin.utexas.edu
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Use the Ask A Librarian Chat Service, available until 9 pm, Sunday-Thursday. (This option is good for help after 5 pm.)

Library Resources for This Class

1. Theory & Seminal Scholarship

Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Find lengthy, yet accessible, overview articles on key literary theories and theorists. For example, get an overview of Foucault and post-structuralism or Beardsley and New Criticism.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Find annotated bibliographies covering seminal books, articles, and scholars on many disciplines and sub-disciplines. These annotated bibliographies are written and edited by top scholars in their field and serve as an excellent model for your bibliography assignment!

The Complete Cambridge Companion to Literature Series
Cambridge University Press's long-standing series, great for overviews and discovering top scholars in sub-fields. NOTE: Some titles are in print; others as ebooks.

2. Reference

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Arguable, the definitive dictionary of the English language, most useful for it's etymologies and examples of usage over time.
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
A dictionary of words, phrases and pronunciations that vary across the United States. This dictionary is helpful for regional vocabulary unfamiliar to you, though it is limited in scope.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (2001 edition)
Limited to 1 UT Austin user at a time.
Find simple, straightforward definitions to complex literary terms.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (1990 edition)
Unlimited UT Austin users.

Gale Literature Resource Center
This is a comprehensive database on literary studies, and includes many encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference ebooks related to literary topics. It also include scholarly journal articles – it can be a great place for an all-in-one search.

American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand
Publication Date: 2006

Difficult to use, but containing over 500 articles spotlighting folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. Each article accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography.
Dictionary of Chicano Folklore by Rafaela Castro
Publication Date: 2000

Limited to 6 UT Austin users at a time.

Dictionary of Chicano Folklore charts the rich religious, social, artistic, and cultural heritage of Mexican Americans, who continue to evolve the customs and rituals connected to their Spanish and indigenous roots and the Spanish language. Entries cover specific regions, genres of folk speech, folk narrative, cultural traditions, artifacts, foods, ceremonies, rites, and define contemporary Hispanic terms ranging from duendes, pintos, and las posadas to pachucos, low riders, and Zozobra.

3. Scholarly Databases for Books & Journal Articles

MLA International Bibliography
Unlimited users.
Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 4,400 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
Literature Online (LION)
Unlimited users.
Updated regularly. Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 350,000 full-text works of English and American literature. Includes several literary databases of poetry, plays and fiction as well as general reference works and links to other Internet sites. Coverage of literary criticism includes access to the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, 1920-present (from the Modern Humanities Research Association) and 383 Full-Text Journals (from Literature Online/ProQuest).
JSTOR
Unlimited users.
Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide

Humanities Librarian

Gina Bastone

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Contact:

g.bastone@austin.utexas.edu

Subjects: Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Disability Studies, English Literature, LGBTQ Studies, Rhetoric, Women's and Gender Studies