City of Irving Irving, TX

Online Databases - Literature

Database

Description
Academic Search CompleteSubject Areas: All subjects, e.g. humanities, social science, engineering, medical science, technology, etc...
Type: Bibliographic citations, abstracts, full text
Source: More than 3600 scholarly journals

Contemporary AuthorsSubject Areas: Bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields
Type: Full text
Source: Print edition of Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Literary CriticismSubject Areas: Significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959
Type: Full text
Source: Print edition of Contemporary Literary Criticism

Dictionary of Literary BiographySubject Areas: Essays on the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres; includes interviews, biographies, and bibliographies
Type: Full text Source: Print edition of Dictionary of Literary Biography

Gale Literary Databases (Interface)Simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Type: Full text

litresource

Subject Areas: Information on more than 90,000 novelists, poets, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors
Type: Full text
Source: Journal articles on literature, literary criticisms, reference work

NetLibrary eContentSubject Areas: Digital versions of books, journals, and database content owned by the Irving Public Library
Type: Full text

Scribner WritersSubject Areas: Biographical and critical material about authors, from Classical Greek and Roman writers to the present. Primary focus is American and British authors.
Type: Full text
Source: Subset of Literature Resource Center database

Twayne's Author SeriesSubject Areas: Analysis of the life and works of a variety of well-known and classic world, United States and English authors.
Type: Full text
Source: Contents of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series — United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors

Twentieth Century American Poetry

Subject Areas: The works of most major twentieth-century American poets
Type: Bibliographic citations, full text
Source: 750 volumes of 20th century American poetry

Twentieth Century English PoetrySubject Areas: The works of more than 280 poets who created from 1900 until the present day
Type: Bibliographic citations, full text
Source: 598 volumes of poetry from the lists of Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers

WorldCatSubject Areas: Library holdings information
Type: Bibliographic information
Source: Shared catalog records from libraries all over the world

WorldCat FirstSearch
Remote access
Subject Areas: Library holdings information
Type: Bibliographic information
Source: Shared catalog records from libraries all over the world