This library guide is designed to assist you in researching World Literature. It is not an exhaustive list, but will help you begin your research. See also the Literary Research library guide.

Books :: Indexes :: Websites

To find a specific title or other works by the author, search by author or title:   

Light in August               title
Faulkner, William           author

To find books about the author or the work, search by subject:

Faulkner, William           subject

BOOKS

These series will give critical essays on many authors and their works.

Contemporary Authors
REF PN 466 .C598

Contemporary Literary Criticism
REF PN 771 .C59

Dictionary of Literary Biography
REF PS 21 .D5

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
REF PN 771 .E5 1981

European Writers: The Twentieth Century
REF PN 501.E9 1983

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
REF PN 86 .L56

Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism
REF PN 523 .M35

Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
REF PN 761 .N56

Short Story Criticism
REF PN 3373 .S389

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
REF PN 771 .T86

INDEXES

Humanities Index   (1982-2000) (Index Tables)
This index gives citations for articles from scholarly humanities journals, including language, literature, art, and music.  
You can search for citations by the name of the author or the title of the work.

Citation Example:

The periodical title, Times Literary Supplement, is what you look up in the Periodicals List to see if we have it in the library. If we don't, we can get it for you through interlibrary loan.

DATABASES

Gale's Literary Index
This database indexes all the Gale's series in Reference that give critical essays and biographical information on writers. USE THIS FIRST! it will save you simply oodles of time!

Short Story Index
This database indexes short story collections, so you can find the book that has a story by a particular author. It also gives the full text of some stories.

WEBSITES

Ask a librarian if you need help!