Encyclopedias and Reference

Language and Literature

Language

• Green's Dictionary of Slang Oxford
  Unprecedented 10.3 million-word collection of the impertinent, vile, censored, hip, witty, and fascinating slang words of the English language, covering five centuries of innovation in all English-speaking regions of the world. (2011)
  
  
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Oxford
  Encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.(2003)
  
  
• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
  Bilingual dictionaries featuring English paired with French, German, Italian, and Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Words, phrases, grammar, verb tables, much more. (Updated regularly)
  
  
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Literature

• Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 Gale
  Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.(2008)
  
  
• Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture Gale
  Covers the full range of topics relating to vampires, including literature, film and television, and folklore.(2011)
  
  
• Literary Movements for Students Gale
  Historical background information on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of each movement's characteristic styles and themes. (2007)
  
  
• Literary Themes for Students: Race and Predjudice Gale
  Represent a wide range of circumstances in which individuals experience prejudice in American, British and world literature. (2007)
  
  
• Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream Gale
  Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity, and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures. (2007)
  
  
• Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace Gale
  Examines dominant and recurring subthemes in the literature of war; including survival, terrorism, leadership, and genocide. (2007)
  
  
• Literature of Propaganda Gale
  Contains 300 entries that explore literary works that deal with propaganda. The set includes a wide variety of genres and has an international scope. It explores the works of authors shaped by a variety of political, social, and economic movements, and places each work in its historical context. Each entry includes an overview of the work, historical context, primary themes and style, and critical discussion. (2013)
  
  
• Literature of War Gale
  Provides historical, cultural and social context of works that focus on armed conflict throughout the world and time. It highlights the realities of war, its impact on society, and how it affects our understanding of it. (2012)
  
  
• Literature Resource Center Gale
  Resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. (Updated Regularly)
  
  
• Shakespeare for Students Gale
  Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars with an introduction; a plot synopsis; a character list; a discussion of the work's principal themes (2007)
  
  

Research Articles

• Research Databases for Language & Literature
  
  
  

Websites

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  On-line version of the 1919 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. You can browse by author (chronologically or alphabetically) or search by keyword.
  
  
• Great Books Online
  Hundreds of complete works including inaugural addresses, poetry, prose, and reference.
  
  

Related Resources

• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale
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• Oxford Reference Online
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