Library News for Comparative Literature

40 New Articles in Literary Encyclopedia

A list of new articles published in September in the Literary Encyclopedia , a scholarly-owned reference encyclopedia which provides profiles of authors, works and topics (literary, philosophical, historical).

Access: New Articles in Literary Encyclopedia

Article	Contributor
Amis, Martin: The War Against Clich�: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000	Nicolas Tredell, Palgrave Macmillan
Austen, Katherine	Pamela Hammons, University of Miami
Baraka, Imamu Amiri : Dutchman	James Fazzino, University of California, Santa Cruz
Baraka, Imamu Amiri : Home	James Fazzino, University of California, Santa Cruz
Baroja, P�o	Katharine Anne Murphy, University of Exeter
Brittain, Vera Mary: England�s Hour: An Autobiography 1939-1941	Lolly Ockerstrom, Park University
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh	Amy R. Wong, UCLA
Clifford, Anne	Jessica Malay, University of Huddersfield
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria	Tim Milnes, University of Edinburgh
D'Aguiar, Fred	Abigail Ward, Nottingham Trent University
Dos Passos, John: The Big Money	Ian Afflerbach, University of California Davis
Dryden, John: The Tempest	Jennifer Brady, Rhodes College
Foscolo, Ugo	Rachel A. Walsh, The University of Denver
Gide, Andr�: La porte étroite [Strait is the Gate]	Victoria Reid, University of Glasgow
Guareschi, Giovannino: Mondo Piccolo	Alan Perry, Gettysburg College
Guevara, Che	Helen Yaffe, University of Leicester
Holmes, John Clellon: This Is the Beat Generation	James Fazzino, University of California, Santa Cruz
James, M. R. : Ghost Stories of an Antiquary	Dewi Llyr Evans, Cardiff University
Jones, Hettie	Jill E. Anderson, Middle Tennessee State University
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian	Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Lai, Larissa	Bel�n Mart�n-Lucas, Universidade de Vigo
Magris, Claudio	Lorenza Rega, University of Trieste
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso	Luca Somigli, University of Toronto
Piozzi, Hester Lynch	Heather Meek, University of Regina
Plath, Sylvia: Journals	Anna Jackson, Victoria University
Plautus, Titus Maccius: Curculio	Sophia Papaioannou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Prima, Diane di	Jill E. Anderson, Middle Tennessee State University
Pym, Barbara	Zoe Brennan, The University of the West of England
Robinson, Richard	Allyna Ward, Booth College, Winnipeg
Robinson, Richard: The Rewarde of Wickednesse	Allyna Ward, Booth College, Winnipeg
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Du Contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract]	Kevin Inston, University College London
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Emile, ou De l'education	Laurence Mall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Huis clos [In Camera / No Exit]	Benedict Paul O'Donohoe, University of Sussex
Selvon, Samuel Dickson	Lewis MacLeod, Trent University
Stevenson, Anne: The Collected Poems of Anne Stevenson 1955-1995	Ian Gordon, Emeritus Professor Anglia Ruskin University
Textual Scholarship	David Greetham, CUNY Graduate Center
Trollope, Anthony: The Kellys and O'Kellys; or Landlords and Tenants	Yvonne Siddle, University of Chester
Ward, Mrs Humphry: Robert Elsmere	Gisela Argyle, York University, Canada

Dictionary of Literary Biography--ONLINE REFERENCE

 Dictionary of Literary Biography is now available online. It includes biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Bibliographies of primary and secondary literature are also included.

• European Literature volumes
• World literature volumes
• Latin American and Hispanic literature volumes

These articles are an excellent resource for undergraduates and others beginning research on an author.

 

IBZ and IBR -- now linked back to WU with Get It!

IBZ, the Int'l bibliography of periodical literature on the humanities and social sciences  and IBR, the Int'l Bibliography of Book Reviews now includes . As with other databases, you can lick on to see if the Libraries have an article or review.

IBZ (International bibliography of periodical literature)

• Contains more than 3.2 million journal articles from 11,500 journals. Every year some 120,000 entries are added.
• Publications from 40 countries in more than 40 languages
• Can search by SUBJECT keywords (English or German), AUTHOR, FULL TEXT, and more

IBR (International bibliography of book reviews)

• Can search by REVIEWER, PERIODICAL, TITLE OF BOOK REVIEWED, AUTHOR REVIEWED, and more
• Contains over 1.2 million citations for book reviews from 1985 onwards in multiple languages
• Covers disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Includes reviews of criticism but NOT for works of literature (novels, poetry, etc.). Further help finding reviews, see research guides: Comp Lit and Germanic Studies

 For questions, contatct Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu; 5-4824; IM)

 

New reference articles in Literary Encyclopedia

Literary Encyclopedia, an online encyclopedia of articles written by literature faculty, has recently published 44 new reference articles. Among those include:

• French Avant-Garde
• German Baroque Mystics: European Connections
• The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature

Literary Encyclopedia also allows you to browse bookshelves which are collections of articles users have created on different topics, genres, and authors. For example "Medieval Writers" and "Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Literature". You can also create you own bookshelf!   

WU Libraries' Technology Classes for Spring 2011--Zotero, Mendeley, Twitter, Prezi, & more

The  Libraries are pleased to announce our spring 2011 workshop schedule. Visit http://wulibraries.doattend.com to register for a workshop or view an up-to-date list of offerings. While registration is not required, doing so will guarantee your seat.

 Taste of Technology

February 2, 2011 from 12-4pm.  Location: Olin Library Lobby

For details, see http://tasteoftech.doattend.com/

Come sample some new technologies at the Taste of Technology Fair. Technology tastings include newer gadgets such as the iPhone, iPad, netbooks, and demos of web tools such as Prezi, screenr, and Zotero.  Come learn about new tech tools and register for upcoming workshops!

Feel free to stop by the Fair during any of the hours listed above.  This event is open to the entire University community. We look forward to seeing you there!

 Registration not required!

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Navigating the Stacks: Finding Books from Virtual to Physical

February 15, 2011 Olin Library Arc Presentation Room 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM

March 7, 2011 Olin Library Arc Presentation Room 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM

March 21, 2011 Olin Library Arc Presentation Room 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM

To register, see http://findbooks.doattend.com

Have you ever found a book title on Amazon or Google Books yet can’t lay your hands on it in a library?  Have you gotten lost on Level B of Olin?  Do you know how to get to the Music Library?  Are you afraid of being squished in the movable shelves?

Learn the steps (literally) to get from book title to actual book.

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Prezi Basics

February 24, 2011

Olin Library Arc Lab
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, see http://prezi.doattend.com  

Tired of creating or seeing uninspired PowerPoint presentations? Ready to wow your colleagues by giving your next presentation some visual pizzazz? Come learn the basics of the new online presentation software, Prezi http://prezi.com/  .Once you’ve use Prezi your presentations are sure to inspire presentation envy.     

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Zotero 101: Organize Your Research

March 24, 2011

Olin Library Arc Lab

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, see http://zotero.doattend.com/

 Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. In this hands-on workshop, we will cover account creation, installation, gathering references, organizing your references, creating citations and sharing or working collaboratively. For more info, see http://www.zotero.org/ 

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Paperless Reference Management with Mendeley

April 06, 2011

Olin Library Arc Lab

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, /http://mendeley.doattend.com

Do you have file cabinets of journal articles that you dread looking through when you need a citation? Consider going digital! Mendeley is like iTunes for your papers. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Zotero can:

• Automatically generate bibliographies
• Highlight within and add digital notes to articles
• Collaborate easily with other researchers online
• Easily import papers from other research software
• Access your papers from anywhere online
• Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
• Automatically add references from Zotero
• For more info, see http://www.mendeley.com 

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Teaching with Twitter

April 07, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, http://twitter.doattend.com

In a world where social media has become a part of our daily existence, Twitter has begun to make inroads as a classroom technology. Please join us as we provide tips and ideas of new ways to integrate the micro-blogging tool, Twitter into your teaching and classroom activities.

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Online Image Editing With Picnik

April 19, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
To register, /http://picnik.doattend.com

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. Other photo editing tools include auto- fix, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, color adjustments, basic sharpening, and red-eye fixing.

Picnik also has great Facebook-only features: show your photos on your profile page, browse and edit all photos tagged with you in them, or even browse and edit your friends' photos too! For more info, see http://www.picnik.com/

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) now includes Historical Thesaurus

The OED Online now includes the Historical Thesaurus which is a taxonomic classification of the majority of senses and lemmas in OED Online. It can be thought of as a kind of semantic index to the contents of the OED. You can use this to navigate around the dictionary by topic, find related terms, and explore the lexical history of a concept or meaning.

You'll also notice the OED interface has changed. You can now create a user profile which will allow you to save entries, email entries, and display how to cite a dictionary entry. You can browse through entries by subject or by when they entered the English-language.

Questions? Ask Brian

 

Tweaks to MLA International Bibliography database

There have been some slight changes to the MLA International Bibliography database.

• Limiting function (full text only, peer-reviewed only) on LEFT side of the results screen
• You can also change how results are sorted.
• GetIt has moved to the left side.

There hasn't been any change with functionality, only display. For more info, see these screenshots:

Let me know if you have questions. Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu)

MLA International Bibliography

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Increased coverage of Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Through the Web of Science, WU has increased coverage of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Coverage is from 1975 when the index began through the present.

What is the Arts & Humanities Citation Index?  A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities and indexing 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Updated weekly.  

This would be a good resource to consult for research topics covering multiple disciplines in the Humantities.

25 new articles in Literary Encyclopedia

A list of new articles published this month in the Literary Encyclopedia , a scholarly-owned reference encyclopedia which provides 4700 profiles of authors, works and topics (literary, philosophical, historical).

Article	Contributor
Anonymous: One Thousand and One Nights	John Andrew Morrow, Minot State University
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]	Kenneth McKellar, King's University College, The University of Western Ontario
Calderon in German Literature	Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Caecina	Fiona Catherine Tweedie, University of Sydney
Cleave, Chris: Incendiary	Ulrike Tancke, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Douglas, Gawin	J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Du, Fu	Eva Shan Chou, City University of New York, Baruch College
Dugdale, William	Janet Rosemary Broadway, Queen Mary, University of London
Filangieri, Gaetano	Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
Friel, Brian: The Freedom of the City	Michael Parker, Central Lancashire
Gozzano, Guido	Cristina Della Coletta, University of Virginia
Heidegger, Martin: Sein und Zeit [Being and Time]	Ellis Dye, Macalester College
Howe, Tina	Judith Ellen Barlow, University at Albany SUNY
James, Henry: The Birthplace	Hazel McNair Hutchison, University of Aberdeen
Katai, Tayama	Kenneth George Henshall, University of Canterbury
Larkin, Philip: The Whitsun Weddings	Erik Martiny, University of Aix-en-Provence and International School of Aix
Marinella Vacca, Lucrezia	Galli Stampino Maria, University of Miami
Meynell, Alice	Martin Dubois, University of Cambridge
Mourning Dove: Cogewea the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range	Lori Muntz, Iowa Wesleyan College
Mourning Dove: Coyote Stories	Lori Muntz, Iowa Wesleyan College
Mourning Dove: Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography	Lori Muntz, Iowa Wesleyan College
Niedecker, Lorine	April Fallon, Kentucky State University
Stoppard, Tom: Professional Foul	Joe Nordgren, Lamar University
Wesley, Charles	Gareth Lloyd, University of Manchester
Wilson, Colin: The Occult	Colin Stanley, formerly of University of Nottingham

Manage your Citations w/ RefWorks--1-hr. workshops-9/24 & 10/2

Brian will be offering one-hour workshops to get you started with using RefWorks, a citation manager. Remember,  RefWorks is available on- and off-campus.

What can you do with RefWorks?

• easily and quickly import citations from databases and catalogs
• manage citations in your personal database
• create bibliographies in citation styles (MLA, APA)
• cite as you write your articles and papers

Brian's workshops -- register NOW-SPACE IS LIMITED.

• Thursday, Sept. 24, 4:30-5:30pm (REGISTER ONLINE FOR THIS SESSION)
• Friday, Oct. 2, 2:30-3:30 (REGISTER ONLINE FOR THIS SESSION)

All workshops will be held in the ARC Lab. You will receive an email confirmation. If you can't make any of these times, Brian will set up individual sessions. Email if interested: bvetruba@wustl.edu

For questions about the workshops or about RefWorks, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824; IM/Chat: http://libguides.wustl.edu/profile.php?uid=2787)