Literary Reference Center™ Plus
Literary Reference Center™ Plus is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research.
Literary Reference Center Plus contains everything in Literary Reference Center, plus the following:
- Over 1,000 Additional Full-Text Literary Reference Books/Works, including titles with a focus on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature, children's literature, Hispanic literature, and other areas
- Over 100 Additional Full-Text Literary Journals & Magazines, including titles with a focus on multi-cultural studies, folklore, Latin American literature, and historical literature
- 35 Volumes of New Contemporary Literature Titles from Salem Press relating to Fantasy/Science Fiction, Contemporary Literature, World Philosophy, Quotations In Context, Religious Literature, and Biographies of Nobel Literature Prize Winners
- 40 Full-Text Literary Study Guides, covering:
- American Literature - helping students explore novels and plays by American authors
- English Literature - helping students with the study of novels, poems, and plays
- Literary Genres - helping students understand the characteristics of different forms of literature
- 74 Literary Videos pertaining to classic literary works and authors
In addition, Literary Reference Center Plus includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.
If Literary Reference Center™ Plus is of interest, the following items may be of interest as well:
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More than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews | |
Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism | |
More than 159,000 author biographies | |
More than 550 literary journals | |
More than 632,000 book reviews | |
More than 69,000 classic and contemporary poems | |
More than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories | |
More than 5,600 author interviews | |
40 full-text study guides | |
74 literary videos | |
More than 8,200 classic texts |
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