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This database provides online access to the full-text of the Thomson Gale Literature Criticism Reference Sets Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism & Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Includes author biographical information, criticism (excerpts or full-text) published from an author's own time to the present as well as bibliographical information.

A large collection of full-text works of prose, poetry and drama. Works may be located by author or title, or searched full-text for specific words or phrases. Also includes secondary sources of biographical and critical pieces on authors and their works.

This bibliography database directs researchers to more than 3 million citations from journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, scholarly websites, editions, and translations published from the late 19^th century to the present. Covers a broad range of humanities subjects, including world languages and literature, linguistics, dramatic arts, film, folklore, rhetoric and writing studies, teaching of language, and history of publishing.

Provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes focusing on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature and children's literature. Also includes volumes of fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy and religious literature, and literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature and literary genres.

An interdisciplinary archive of journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. JSTOR also contains a large collection of scholarly ebooks from academic publishers.

Full text journals, books and other published sources, covering all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content. Includes abstracts and full text from journals, books and book reviews, art work and images, performances and reviews, literature and criticisms, poems and short stories, and conference proceedings.

A multi-disciplinary full-text database of over 10,000 academic journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, and books. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study including the humanities, sciences and social sciences, education, arts, literature, and more.

Includes criticism and author biographical information for Short Stories, Contemporary Literature, 20th Century Literature, 19th Century Literature, Literature from 1400-1800, Shakespeare's Works, and Classical & Medieval Literature. All of these titles are indexed in the Gale Literary Index.

All of these journal and periodicals are available to search through Academic Search Complete.