Grayson County College

English 1302 Reference Works Assignment

Write answers to these questions and list their source in MLA format.

Use the titles referenced in the online Library Tour and/or the Literature Source List.

1. To find a book about Edgar A. Poe's writings on the BARRCat, would you do an author search, title search, or subject search?
   
   
2. What type of reference introductory subject tool would you use to find out the basics of who William Wordsworth was, when he lived, and what he did?
   
   
3. The Essential Shakespeare, provides annotations for its bibliography. The citation for Hamlet that discusses the "Dumb show and play within a play" was written when?

   What service could be used to acquire this particular article if the Grayson County College Library does not own it?
   
   

4. Provide the title of the source that would include Criticisms of Shakespeare's Henry V from both the 1600's and the 1980's.
   
   
5. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides information on music throughout history. Find the article that discusses Shakespeare. Finish this Quote, "The impact of his plays would not suffer greatly if gunshot and processions, fencing and costumes were eliminated, but _____________.
   
   
6. The Mythology of All Races outlines the Odyssey in what volumes and on what pages?
   
   
7. Using the Guide to British Poetry Explication, locate the volume with Victorian-Contemporary poets and provide one citation for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children."
   
   
8. The Boolean Operator "and" and "not" will narrow a search.
   The Boolean Operator "or" will broaden a search.
   These two statements are true or false?
   
   
9. In which volumes of Contemporary Authors would you find information on Alice Walker?
   
   
10. Criticisms for the author Emily Dickinson would be found in either TCLC or in NCLC? Why?
    
    
11. In DLB, an article on Carson McCullers ends with references that include the location of most of her manuscript collection. What is that location?
    
    
12. List two works of criticisms on Frankenstein by Mary Godwin Shelley from the Bibliography listing in Magill's Bibliography on Literary Criticisms.
    
    
13. Book Review Digest reviews a new book published in 1998 on Jane Austen by P.A. Poplawski. The title is A Jane Austen Encyclopedia. In what Journal is the review for this title listed?
    
    
14. What is an anthology?
    
    
15. According to the source Masterplots, who are the principal characters of Oedipus Tyrannus?
    
    
16. In Short Story Criticisms, Faulkner was interviewed by Robert Jellife. State how Faulkner felt about Emily in his short story "A Rose for Emily."
    
    
17. In the source Drama Criticism, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller is critiqued by M.W. Steinberg who states, "In Death of a Salesman the common man is crushed by __________."
    
    
18. Criticism of Yeats' Poetry can be found in what volumes of Poetry Criticism?
    
    
19. A Chaucer Glossary can help us understand the English language as Geoffrey Chaucer wrote it. The definition for the word hoker as used by Chaucer is __________.
    
    
20. The Cambridge History of English, Vol. XII, refers to Jane Austen's works. Particularly, her skill as a satirist in Pride and Prejudice is illuminated by a quote. Which two characters from the book are quoted to show this?