Full text scholarly literary criticism, popular commentary, and reviews of thousands of authors, both well-known and obscure. A good, comprehensive starting point for literary research.
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Full text biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on a wide variety of writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from all over the world.
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Full-text, comprehensive reference resource indexing books, major literary encyclopedias, reference-works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
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Provides a subject index for discovering books, chapters, and journal articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics, literary theory & criticisms, dramatic arts, and the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
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