This Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of literary criticism/theory. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries and sub-entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. The Guide is updated annually.
Gale Literature Resource Center offers a wide range of literary resources for researchers to support their own responses, analysis, and thesis statements. It includes primary works, analysis, biographical information, criticism, and reviews that promote interdisciplinary approaches and critical thinking.
Collections of poetry, prose and drama from authors of diverse, underrepresented groups, reflecting different ethnicities, beliefs and orientations. Includes contemporary and historical criticisms.
Contains records for plays—published individually or in collections—dating from 1949 to present, and is updated on a weekly basis to incorporate new content. Available content includes monologues from many distinguished playwrights, including Aeschylus, William Shakespeare, Moliere, Anton Checkhov, Tennessee Williams and many more.
A fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated database of journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
Dance in Video is a video collection for the study of 20th Century concert dance, featuring the most influential performers and companies together with dozens of documentaries, interviews, and dance instruction videos.
Full length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met’s Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, telecasts from the 1970s-1990s, and radio broadcasts back to 1935. All videos include English subtitles, and recent HD videos include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and/or Swedish.
New titles are added every month, with most of the Met’s Live in HD programs coming online a few months after their live transmission date. Every opera includes an English synopsis, with synopses in multiple languages available for many more.
Access limited to 10 simultaneous users.
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
China: Culture and Society offers rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library's Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia with full-text searchability and secondary resources.
The FBIS collection consists of intelligence reports from 1941-1996, gathered by the CIA from various sources like government publications, newspapers, and broadcasts. These documents, now accessible in a digital format, offer valuable insights into global events during the latter half of the 20th century.
The collection includes:
The collection includes British Foreign Office files on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 1919 to 1980, containing diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, reports, and more. These previously restricted documents offer detailed insights into a significant period in Chinese history.
The six parts of this collection is:
The China, American and the Pacific collection offers archival material on the trading and cultural relationships between China, America, and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
The Criterion Collection showcases the definitive versions of seminal titles in the history of motion pictures in streaming format. This film selection details the history of film in the 20th Century, covering the works of Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, among others.
Film on Demand is a digital video streaming service providing access to educational videos from producers like A&E, PBS, National Geographic, and more. The Master Academic Collection includes videos across various fields of study, including health, humanities, science, business, and archival films.
Provides streaming services for some of the latest box-office hits, documentaries, independent films, international movies and classics. Studios represented include: Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Brothers, Paramount, MGM, United Artists, New Line Cinema, Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Lionsgate, Miramax, National Geographic, etc.
Find diverse global perspective on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, education, science, the arts, literature, business, economics, criminal justice, and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos, and web-only content.
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text database with newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic, minority, and native presses globally. It covers diverse issues in countries like the U.S., Ireland, Israel, Mexico, China, and more, offering alternative viewpoints on current events. Updated monthly.
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. Current access includes:
This archive presents the complete collection of newspaper, 1872-1949. Most influential and longest lasting commercial newspaper before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. It gradually shifted from a conservative perspective to a liberal one, and played a pivotal role in the formation of public opinion in the Imperial Period and into the tumultuous beginnings of modern China.
Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, 1743 to present.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
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Note: Full text for certain publications is subject to market availability.
This database is a companion to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, featuring current research from the University of Alabama with citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses. Full text can be downloaded by authorized University of Alabama users.
Indexes theses written in participating colleges and universities the United Kingdom. Some of the full-texts are free; others are available for a fee.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that offers rare scholarly resources, including foreign government documents, doctoral dissertations, textbooks, and scientific research materials, as well as six area studies microfilming projects.