EN310/320 Sex in the City: Troy and London in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professors’ Re Evitt and Rob Kendrick Block C, 2009 class.

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “Chaucer* AND gender*” in KEYWORD search to find books discussing gender in Chaucer’s works.

Try searching “Sex role in literature” AND “Chaucer” in SUBJECT search.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Recommended Journals

Shakespeare Quarterly

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

MLA International Bibliography

Coverage: 1963 - current

Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over journals and series published worldwide.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Additional Sources for Literary Criticism

Shakespearean Criticism

Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Includes critical interpretations of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. Part of Literature Criticism Online

Classical And Medieval Literature Criticism

Online, full-text literary criticism, anthologized and excerpted from books and journal articles. Early to present-day criticism of early literature, philosophy, and other works. Part of Literature Criticism Online

The World Shakespeare Bibliography

Coverage: 1962 - current

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.

Useful Reference Sources

Dictionary of literary biography
1st Floor North-Reference PS21 .D5185 1978 many volumes!
First look up title or author in Literary Index which will point you to a volume of the DLB.

Dictionary of the Middle Ages
1st Floor North-Reference D114 .D5 1982 v. 1-3

The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance
1st Floor North-Reference CB361 .C27 2003

New Catholic Encyclopedia
1st Floor North-Reference BX841 .N44 2003 v. 1-15

Middle English Dictionary

Coverage: N/A

This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED (available in Tutt Library ), but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.

The Johns Hopkins Guide To Literary Theory & Criticism

Coverage: N/A

Searchable, full-text online version of the well known reference to the intellectual traditions of literary theory.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers: New York : MLA, 2003.
PE1478 .M57 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 7-17-09, km.