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MLA Documentation Style
  • In Library MLA Handbook (1999) 808.02 G35  (also located in the CWC)
Research Guides
  • The Art of Literary Research (Richard Altick)  807.2 AL7
  • The Internet Research Guide (Timothy Malory) 004.678 (Salem Public Library)
  • Literary Research Guide (James Harner) 820.9 Harner (Salem Public)
Literary Glossaries
  • A Handbook to Literature. eds. Hugh Holman and William Harmon  (Glossary of literary terms and periods)  803.H73
  • The Harper Handbook to Literature. ed. Northrop Frye 802.02 F94
Online Literary Glossary A Glossary of Literary Terms and Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris, Vanguard University of Souther California, Costa Mesa.
Companions & Handbooks

Companions offer brief historical information, author information, character in a work information, depending on type of companion (i.e. historical, literary, etc.).  Oxford, Cambridge and Princeton presses put out a variety of these.  Using a key word title search search specifying: Oxford companion to __________  will generally get you a companion focusing on your particular interest.
 

 * The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (http://www.bartleby.com/211/)
* Dictionary of Native American Literature  897.D56
*Oxford Companion to American Literature 803.H251 (W. Salem branch) (brief overviews of literature, literary movements, and literary people in America)
*Oxford Companion to American History  973.03 J63 (brief overviews of people and events in Am. history)
* The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature 810.3 Cambridge (look up characters in literature, authors, etc.)
* The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature 895. 609 M66 (look up works, characters, authors).
*Oxford Companion to Classical Literature  880.3 H26 (look up Greek and Roman classical works, charcters, authors).