Literature  

Literature Resource Center This comprehensive database provides literary criticism, author biographies, bibliographies as well as further readings and resources for historic through contemporary works. Includes MLA International Bibliography. Also included are linked timelines that cover an author's lifespan, creating easy access to information about world events that may have influenced the author's work.

The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style

African-American Writers: A Dictionary

The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature

Chambers Dictionary of Eponyms

Critical Terms for Literary Study

Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations, H.W. Wilson

Dictionary of Languages

Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing

Divided by a Common Language

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary

Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk

Word Histories and Mysteries

Word Origins

Best Books for Children: Preschool Through Grade 6

The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English

Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

Subject guides assist students who are completing research for an assignment in their major, or an elective or required course.  Students can easily find journal articles (online databases), encyclopedias and dictionaries, information for professional development and other discipline specific statistics. If you need more information, please see a Reference Librarian at the 1st Floor Research Desk, email refdesk@dyc.edu or telephone 716-829-7747.

Academic Search Complete This general content database contains both full-text and citations to book reviews published in magazines, trade journals and scholarly journals across a wide range of subject areas.

Literature Resource Center This comprehensive database provides literary criticism, author biographies, bibliographies as well as further readings and resources for historic through contemporary works. Includes MLA International Bibliography. Also included are linked timelines that cover an author's lifespan, creating easy access to information about world events that may have influenced the author's work.

Proquest Research Library This general content database contains full-text and citations to book reviews in a wide range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

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