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Gale’s Literature Resource Centre

Gale’s Literature Resource Centre. About Literature Resource Center.

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Gale’s Literature Resource Centre

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  1. Gale’sLiterature Resource Centre

  2. About Literature Resource Center “Literature Resource Center is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world” Criticisms Biographies Reference articles Full text journals Reviews Primary Works Plot analysis Explications Multimedia “

  3. Abbotsleigh School A B Paterson College All Hallows School Brisbane Grammar School John Paul College Kelvin Grove SHS Methodist Ladies CollegeShore Sydney CEGS Geelong College .........approx 30 schools b

  4. Literature Resource Center at St Peters College Statistics: 5 user licence Feb 2010 31 sessions 70 searches Mar 2010 21 sessions 48 searches Compare with Science Resource Centre Feb 2010 609 sessions 2991 searches

  5. What’s in Literature Resource Center Refer to the link in the section About Literature Resource Center Gale – provides the reference works Periodicals – mostly American Universities with some International – OUP, Irish, Canadian ... Australian Literary Studies (UQP) Australian Review of Applied Linguistics(Monash Uni.) Babel (Aust’n Federation of Modern Language Teachers)

  6. What you'll find in Literature Resource Center Full-text scholarly articles from more than 360 academic journals and literary magazines—the majority peer-reviewed—as well as excerpts from scholarly monographs, literary correspondence and diaries. (After your search, select the Literature Criticism tab.) Reviews of books of all sorts, from children's literature to adult fiction, from popular non-fiction to scholarly studies. (After your search, select the Reviews and News tab.) Substantive biographical essays on more than 130,000 authors, providing insights into life and times, works, and critical reception. (After your search, select the Biographies tab.)

  7. Full text of thousands of poems and short stories published in contemporary journals and magazines. (After your search, select the Primary Sources/Literary Works tab.) Overview essays on thousands of books and literary topics. (After your search, select the Topic and Work Overviews tab.) Links to editorially selected websites on authors and their works, as well as pictures of well-known authors and audio interviews and reviews. (After your search, select the Multimedia tab.) New and updated material is added daily

  8. Phrase search • Person –items written by/about • Specific titles of works -poem/play/book • Keywords (default) searches title, subjects, abstract first 50 words • All text – broadest search

  9. http://www.gale.cengage.com/media/training/LRC/Advanced%20Search/LRC-Advanced.htmhttp://www.gale.cengage.com/media/training/LRC/Advanced%20Search/LRC-Advanced.htm

  10. More search options : Person-About, Name of work, Author- items by, Publication Title, Document type Tabs Publication date (Descending)Publication date (Ascending) Document title

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  14. Your turn – try some of these searches William Shakespeare (and his plays), Samuel Beckett; Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, The crucible - Arthur Miller; Robert Frost; Edward Albee, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Stephanie Meyer (Twilight), JK Rowling Australian information.... Henry Lawson, Xavier Herbert, David Malouf, Sonya Hartnett, Secret river by Kate Grenville ....

  15. Lets have fun .... try these  The Gothic influence of the dark sciences upon the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The portrayal of dark avenger archetypes in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo and Moby Dick Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice. Social issues for women in the 1800’s – comparison/analysis of the 2 books in relation to this theme. Characters in The Importance of Being Earnest – discussing characters’ gender role reversal, differences in gender roles in the play (females being more dominant ) 

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