ENG240.ModernNovel.Teel

toc =ENG240: Modern Novel=
 * Professor Nancy Teel**



=Current Theme: Human Rights=

This guide is designed to help you research Modern Novel topics. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
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=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from Metro Boston Library Network (includes BPL)]

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase
Use specific title or author when searching, example 1: "Schlink and literary criticism", example 2. "The Reader" and literary criticism". We have whole books in our collection dedicated to literary criticism of specific authors or books. You can also use a subject search such as "Edwidge Danticat"
 * Literature**
 * The Reader
 * Dreaming in Cuban
 * Middle Passage
 * In the lake of the Woods
 * The Farming of Bones


 * Human Rights**
 * "Human Rights"
 * "Genocide"
 * "Human Rights" and war
 * "Torture**"**

Reference Books
__Black Literature Criticism, Detroit__ : Gale Tresearch Co., 1992-. Ref. PS153.N5 B556 1992 __Literary Cultures of Latin America : a comparative history__, New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. Ref. PQ7081.A1 L525 2004 __The Cambridge of African and Caribbean Literature__, Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. Ref. PN841 .I74 2004
 * Literature**

__Amnesty International Report 2003__, Ridgefield Park, NJ : Amnesty International Publications, 2003. Ref. JC571 .A45 2003 __Human Rights in the United States : a dictionary and documents__, by Rita Cartwright, Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 2000 Ref. KF4747.5 .C37 2000 __Encyclopedia of Human Rights__, compiled by Edward Lawson, Washington, DC : Taylor & Francis, 1996. Ref. JC571 .E67 1996
 * Human Rights**

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodical section for articles about human rights.
 * __Contemporary Literature__
 * __New Internationalist__: a journal for global justice. Human rights a frequent topic.
 * __Newsweek__
 * __Time__

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This is the best place to start. [|Tutorial]

Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
CLC is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.

Literature Reference Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study, including over 21,000 article mentioning "human rights", 3,200 articles mentioning genocide, 2,700 mentioning torture and 900 using "human rights" and war.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. This database has over 17,000 full text articles mentioning "human rights", 2,500 mentioning genocide, 2,500 mentioning torture and 1,300 using "human rights" and war.

Campus Research
Allows access to a wide range of full-text newspapers as well as business, legal, and reference sources.

=Streaming Video=

UN Declaration of Human Rights (02:50)

Heart of Darfur: Fighting an International Humanitarian Crisis (57:00)

Return to the Heart of Darkness (23:00)

=Web sites= There are many good Human Rights web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University]has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Google]
 * [|Altavista]

Literature
IPL 2 Online Literary Criticism Collection[|Literary Resources on the Net]: Another very nice directory of resources.PAL: Perspectives in American literature: Great place to start to find out information on authors works.Voice of the Shuttle: (Literature in English)

General Human Rights:
Amnesty International Human Rights Documentation Center Human Rights First Human Rights Watch United Nations Human Rights U.S. Department of State- Human Rights

Darfur:
Darfur: a genocide we can stop Darfur Consortium Darfur Information Center O.C.H.A[|.]

Holocaust:
Holocaust: crimes, heroes and villains Remember.org Simon Wiesenthal Center United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rwanda:
Frontline: triumph of evil Human Rights Watch- Rwanda Never Again

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

__APA Style Tutorial__Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works CiteLaguardia Community College Library MLA and APA citation styleThe Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style GuideThe Owl at Purdue: MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide

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Research guide prepared on 9/16/2009 by William Hoag Updated on 04/10/10 Updated on 10/31/11