{"id":127,"date":"2015-06-11T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:45:50","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/start-researching\/research-by-subject-2\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"English Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Subject-Related Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/mla-international-bibliography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLA International Bibliography<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"An index to scholarly articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations published internationally on modern (Medieval to today) languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics (including composition and rhetoric since 2000). Coverage has varied but now includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/literature-resource-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literature Resource Center<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Contains information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more, drawn from these sources: &lt;em&gt;Dictionary of Literary Biography&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Contemporary Authors&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Contemporary Literary Criticism&lt;\/em&gt; (starting with vol. 95), and &lt;em&gt;Merriam-Webster\u2019s Encyclopedia of Literature&lt;\/em&gt;. In addition, it provides selected full-text, excerpted critical materials, articles from 260 literary journals, and links to selected websites.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/literature-criticism-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literature Criticism Online<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides access to criticism (excerpts or full text) published from an author\u2019s own time to the present as well as biographical information and some historical context. The criticism includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books, and journals. Includes three collections: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/literary-reference-center-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literary Reference Center Plus<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"A comprehensive, full text database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. &lt;em&gt;LRC&lt;\/em&gt; combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. &lt;em&gt;LRC&lt;\/em&gt; includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; full text of literary journals and magazines; full text essays and literary reference books; author biographies; book reviews; poems; author interviews; and images of key literary figures.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/humanities-international-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humanities International Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"An index to articles (many full-text, online) in scholarly journals and literary magazines. Provides very good coverage of little magazines and literary reviews and, for 2000- , for scholarly journals in the humanities (history, literature, philosophy, and religion). Incorporates coverage formerly provided by the &lt;em&gt;American Humanities Index&lt;\/em&gt; (published by Whitston, 1975-2005).\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Pro\/Con Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/points-of-view-reference-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Points of View Reference Center<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides the basis to realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills. &lt;em&gt;Points of View Reference Center&lt;\/em&gt; contains many topics, each with an overview (objective background\/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). For each topic, there is a &lt;em&gt;Guide to Critical Analysis&lt;\/em&gt;, which helps the reader evaluate the controversial topics. &lt;em&gt;Points of View Reference Center&lt;\/em&gt; includes over 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from all sides of the political spectrum, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. The database also offers guides for writing position papers, developing arguments, and debating.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/cq-researcher-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CQ Researcher<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Each issue reports in-depth on a single theme in the areas of political and social issues, health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy. Reports include a background and chronology, an assessment of the current situation, tables and maps, pro\/con statements from representatives of opposing positions, and bibliographies of key sources.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Other Helpful Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/jstor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JSTOR<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Full-text archive of important scholarly periodicals in the Arts, Business, Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. &lt;em&gt;JSTOR&lt;\/em&gt; titles include a &quot;moving wall&quot; with a delay of one to ten years before making them available within the database. Topics covered include: African Studies, Anthropology, Art &amp;amp; Art History, Asian Studies, Biology, Business, Ecology, Economics, Education, General Science, History, Language &amp;amp; Literature, Law, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Statistics, and Zoology.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speechbank.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides audio, video, or transcripts to more than 5,000 historic speeches. Search by speech title or the speaker\u2019s &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;\/strong&gt; name; browse by subject or \u201cTop 100\u201d.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/arts-and-humanities-citation-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arts &amp; Humanities Citation Index<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"A multidisciplinary database indexing over 1,100 of the world\u2019s leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. &lt;em&gt;AHCI&lt;\/em&gt; covers archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, history language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, television and film, religion, and theater. The unique feature of this database is the Cited Reference Search, which finds how many times a work has been cited by other articles and identifies where they were cited.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/communication-mass-media-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Communication &amp; Mass Media Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Communication &amp;amp; Mass Media Complete&lt;\/em&gt; offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals in areas related to communication and mass media, and selected coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs, and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/academic-search-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academic Search Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Our broadest, most general index to periodicals, &lt;em&gt;Academic Search Complete&lt;\/em&gt; provides abstracts for over 9,300 scholarly and popular periodicals, and full text for more than 5,300 of these. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Library Guides<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/EnglishStudies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English Studies LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/content.php?pid=41548&amp;sid=305692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject-Related Resources MLA International Bibliography Literature Resource Center Literature Criticism Online Literary Reference Center Plus Humanities International Complete Pro\/Con Resources Points of View Reference Center CQ Researcher Other Helpful Resources JSTOR American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank Arts &amp; Humanities Citation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/2843"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}