Liberal Arts Blog

The brand new Films/Movies Web page has information on finding feature film movies (also Shakespeare plays) in the CSU Libraries. There is also information on finding film scripts in the Libraries' print and online collections, identifying books on films ("motion pictures"), a list of reference and other books, indexes to find reviews and criticism, journals, and a number of really useful Web sites that have information and reviews of films, actors, directors, and more. The new page is linked to from both the English Language & Literature site and the Speeches Web page. Enjoy a good movie today!

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A new Web page, Rhetorics of Resistance and Change, is up. The page has definitions, a plug for the upcoming international poster exhibit (at CSU), books, recommended databases for identifying articles, and links to Web pages sorted by: Alternative Education; Prison Industrial Complex; NISP/Glade; Oakland Ebonics Debate; and Electronic Languages (IM, Texting, Twitter). It is linked off of the English Language & Literature site. Freshly updated with links to various groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the Art in Sub-Saharan Africa page. Find links that have photos with descriptions of the Azande, Kuba, Mangbetu, Pende, Songye, Suku, and Yaka. Art in Sub-Saharan Africa is linked off of the Art Resources site.

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The newest addition to subject Web pages is on Censorship. The page has lists of reference and circulating books, subject terms to identify additional books, recommended indexes for articles, searching tips for LexisNexis Legal, and links to relevant Web sites. Take a look!

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The Iter Bibliography is useful for scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). It contains "more than 1,000,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews. This material has been collected from 8,707 publications, including 1,707 journals." Right now the "check for full text" is your FindIt@CSU button.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online "provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1962 and 2008." There are currently "more than 114,231 records in this version." Use advanced search to look for words in title, etc.

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Brought to you by the generosity of the Irene Bostrom Endowment in the College of Liberal Arts, Evans contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It contains more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages. These are primary source advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

The online collection may be searched by subject and browsed by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication and language. Topics covered include agriculture, astronomy, child rearing, commerce, constitution, education, foreign affairs, medicine, military operations, operas, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, work, and much more.

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The largest dictionary of the English language is now available 24/7 to CSU affiliates. Look up the meaning of words, find their etymologies (history of the word), search for words by keywords in their definitions, search for words that beginning with a particular suffix, and much more. From their about page:
"The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books."
Take a look! If you cannot think of a word to look up OED will select one (get an entry) for you.

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There is a brand new Web page to help students doing research on the Bronte Sisters: Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. It can be found at: http://lib.colostate.edu/research/english/Brontes.html

It is linked from the English Language & Literature page (one of the Research Guides):
http://lib.colostate.edu/research/english/

There are other authors with Web pages about them too:

Chaucer
Dickinson & Wright
William Faulkner
Milton
Flannery O'Connor
Poe
Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
William Carlos Williams & Wallace Stevens

All these pages let you know where the books are, where to identify journal articles (and what to search), and links to relevant Web pages, annotated. A lot of the Bronte Sisters oeuvre is available online.

Also found on the English Language & Literature page are some literary criticism and book review finding tools:

Finding Literary Criticism in Books
Locating Literary Criticism in Journal Articles
Book Review Indexing Sources

See also:

Searching MLA Bibliography by Subject, by author
Beat Writers
Ecofeminism for E631)
Goddesses (for E336)

Take a look! There are a few more pages that are not mentioned here.

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