Salem Literature - Thrall Databases - Databases & Virtual Reference Resources at Middletown Thrall Library

Includes Critical Insights - Works & Authors:

"This comprehensive series distills the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world's most-studied literature. Each volume in the series focuses on an individual author's entire body of work or on a single work of literature.

Edited and written by some of academe's most distinguished literary scholars, Critical Insights provides authoritative, in-depth scholarship suitable for students and teachers alike."

and Critical Survey of Long Fiction:

"Offers 678 profiles of major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant novels and novellas. Discusses the novel in overview essays by time period, country, ethnicity, and genre, and provides valuable resource material."

(descriptions provided by Salem Press)

Contents in Critical Insights are divided into Works (individual titles) and Authors. These some of the many works and authors are currently available in print at Thrall as well as through this online database:

Critical Insights: Authors

Sherman Alexie
Isabel Allende
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Gwendolyn Brooks
Albert Camus
Willa Cather
John Cheever
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
Harlan Ellison
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lillian Hellman
Ernest Hemingway
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Jack London
Arthur Miller
Toni Morrison
Flannery O�Connor
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
John Updike
Tennessee Williams

Critical Insights: Works

Absalom, Absalom!
Aeneid, The
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bell Jar, The
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
Death of a Salesman
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
The House on Mango Street
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Inferno
The Joy Luck Club
King Lear
The Metamorphosis
Mrs. Dalloway
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Poetry of Poe
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Red Badge of Courage
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sun Also Rises
Tales of Poe
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird

Also included in Salem Literature:

Critical Surveys:

American Poets
British, Irish, and Commonwealth Poets
European Poets
Long Fiction
Topical Essays in Poetry
World Poets
Magill's Literary Annuals (1977 - 2010)
Masterplots, Fourth Edition -

and

Masterplots: "A classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots analyzes the most important works in all genres - long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction - throughout history and around the world, helping to define and critique the literary canon."

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Access Options:

This database can be accessed from any of Thrall Library's public Internet or research computers.

Concerning access outside the library:

Members of Middletown Thrall Library may log in to this service using their library barcode.

Tips & Special Features:

Once you reach Salem Literature, you can click the "+" icon to expand Works and Authors list. After you click an author or title, you will be taken to a search screen, where you can enter one or more keywords and then click Search Now.

If you are not searching for anything in particular and simply want to explore all articles associated with an author or title, just click Search Now, and click on articles that interest you when they appear.

Search results can be filtered by clicking "All" (see all articles), "Biography" (about the author's life), Criticism (reviews and analysis of an author's works), "Overview," and "Resources" (bibliographies, charts, and more).

Click "Advanced Search" to search individual works or authors. Advanced Search also lets you limit your search to geographical regions from around the world.

At the top of the Salem Literature database menu are tabs you can click. These include:

Browse:
- by genre: drama, long fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short fiction
- by location: Africa, Asia, Central America and West Indies, Europe, North America, South America
Authors - An alphabetical index of authors in this series
Works - An alphabetical list of literary titles

If you like, you can register with Salem Literature by clicking the "Logon" tab at the top of the screen so that, each time you log in, you can save articles, searches, and citations.

Thrall owns print copies of all titles in this series.

In addition to these reference works, we have many other excellent literary and literary criticism reference works as well as circulating critical studies and literary works that might interest you.

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