Encyclopedias and Databases
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Credo Reference
You can search for literary devices here and leverage the "mind map" feature. -
Literature Resource Center
Covers literary criticism, biographies, and other things that will be helpful here. -
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of encyclopedias that covers a wide range of subjects, including literature.
Helpful Books
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Bloom's Literary Themes
Call Number: PN56 .S5765 B56 2010ISBN: 9781604134414This title brings forward the theme of enslavement and emancipation in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", and many other notable works. -
August Wilson's Fences
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Call Number: PS3573 .I45677 F434 2003ISBN: 0313318808Publication Date: 2003-05-30Fences is the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America who, in August Wilson's hands, rises to the level of an epic hero. -
August Wilson
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ISBN: 9781587299353Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century.
