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Oscar Wilde:
The Importance of Being Earnest


Getting Information

The library has several general resources that may be used to help you gather information for your research. This information may be found in print and Internet resources. Your search can be done using books, periodicals (magazines, journals, newspapers), and the Internet.

Books

The Library Catalog is used to find books available in this library. You may find books that provide a broad overview, and others that give more in-depth information. Your research most often be done using subject or keyword search techniques. This library uses the Library of Congress (LC) subject headings. These subject headings are very specific. Keyword searches allow you to use words that are associated with your topic. Subject searches will bring more direct results, but keyword searches are best used when you are unfamiliar with the LC subject headings.

Sample searches:

subject

keyword

 

Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism – Literature

English Literature – 19th Century

Wilde, Oscar

Drama – History And Criticism

 

Literature And Modernism

Literature And Victorian

Wilde And Criticism

Wilde And Modernism

 


Selected Reference Book Titles:

The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms

REF PN44.5 .M86 1997

 

Encyclopedia of European social history

from 1350 to 2000

REF HN373 .E63 2001

Benét's reader's encyclopedia

REF PN41 .B4 1996

 

Encyclopedia of world biography

REF CT103 .E56 1998

British writers

REF PR85 .B688

 

Great writers of the English language

REF PR85 .G66 1989

Contemporary literary criticism

REF PN771 .C59

 

International dictionary of theatre

REF PN2035 .I49 1992

Critical survey of drama

REF PR623 .C75 1994

 

Literature and its times

REF PN50 .L574 1997

Cyclopedia of literary characters

REF PN44 .M3 1998

 

Moulton's library of literary criticism of English and American authors through the beginning of the

twentieth century

REF PR83 .M73 1966

 

A dictionary of literary and thematic terms

REF PN44.5 .Q56 1999

 

The Oxford companion to English literature

REF PR19 .O94 2000

A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory

REF PN41 .C83 1998

 

 The Oxford companion to Irish literature
REF PR8706 .O88 1996

Drama for students

REF PN1601 .D595

Twentieth-century literary criticism

REF PN771 .T87

Modern world drama; an encyclopedia
REF PN1851 .M36

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama
REF PN1625 .M3

Drama criticism
REF PN1601 D59


Periodicals

Periodicals include magazines, journals, and newspapers. Periodical articles usually provide the most current information for your research. You may find more information on your specific topic in magazines and journals. Magazine articles tend to be broader in coverage and shorter in length than are journal articles. Journals will provide a more scholarly or professional treatment of a topic. The library has indexes in print and online that will help lead you to information on your assigned topic.

Online Indexes
Available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html

EbscoHost

GaleNet 

Project Muse

 

Print Indexes
Located behind the Reference Desk

Essay and General Literature Index 

Humanities Index 

Readers’Guide to Periodical Literature

 

Internet

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you critically evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

The Victorian Web: Oscar Wilde – Biographical Materials

http://www.victorianweb.org/decadence/wilde/bioov.html

 

World Famous Trials: The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1895

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/wilde.htm

 

The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection: Oscar Wilde

http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=wil-33

 

Theater Study Packets, Brigham Young University

http://nauvoo.byu.edu/TheArts/Theater/studypackets/main.cfm

The World-Wide Wilde Web
http://www.showgate.com/tots/gross/wildeweb.html

Iowa State University Play Concordances
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~spires/concord.html

 

The librarians are here and willing to assist you with your research. If you encounter difficulty at any point in your search for information, please stop at the Library Reference Desk for assistance.

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