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INTERPRETATION OF FICTION (LIT 2010)
LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding information in books and articles about the interpretation of fiction.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

• Searching by subject:  Begin with the "Basic Search" screen and choose "Subjects, All" from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu. Type in any of the following Library of Congress subject headings (with two dashes for subheadings):

Fiction--History and criticism
American Fiction--History and criticism

• Searching by keywords: Go to the “Advanced Search” screen and choose “Title Keywords” from the “Search for Keywords” menu.  Type in your keywords (e.g. Jane Austen and interpretation).

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Research Resources" or "Quick Links" and then "Indexes/Databases". When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the link for the "EZproxy" server.   

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  This general electronic resource provides access to articles dealing with literary criticism from scholarly journals, many with the full text. 

• Central Search  This new search option enables the user to search for information in multiple electronic databases by "keywords" or "subjects."
   

• Humanities Full Text
  Provides articles on literary and social criticism literature and other subject areas.  The full text coverage of articles found in this electronic resource begins in January 1995.

• JSTOR This is an electronic collection of articles from more than 500 scholarly journals in the humanities and other areas.  Articles can be accessed using the "Browse" or "Search" options.
   

• Literature Online (LION)
  This is a searchable electronic collection of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose and the full text of 180 literature journals. 
   

• Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors
  Provides access to articles on biographical information and literary criticism and interpretation.  Includes authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history and journalism.
   

• MLA International Bibliography
  Includes references to literary theory and criticism from journal articles, books, dissertations, proceedings, essay collections and bibliographies. 
   

• Project Muse  
  This is an electronic collection of articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in the areas of literature and literary criticism, history, gender studies and many other subject areas.

• Wright American Fiction This electronic collection gives full text access to 19th century American fiction.

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the "Electronic Databases" listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of information?

2. How accurate is the information?

3. How reliable is the information?

4. How current is the information?

5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

• REF LB2369 .G53 2003   Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2003.

• MLA Style Electronic Formats (by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey)
  This "quick" guide to citing sources found on the Internet provides the important components of a citation, with examples.

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