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This edition of American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains 776 scripts by 856 writers together with detailed,
fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays.
When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies.
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This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights,
together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills,
production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
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This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights,
together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.
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Black Thought and Culture contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors,
covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.
Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews,
journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material. |
Black Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction,
nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.
There are 13,000 pages of text in this first release.
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This edition of British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women,
as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that
it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. |
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Caribbean Literature is an extensive searchable collection of poems, novels, and short stories produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature.
The database currently has over 6,000 pages. |
Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection
of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry
contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing
of principal works and sources for further study.
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JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. |
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Latin American Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico,
Central, and South America when complete. There are 19,500 pages of prose and poetry and 36 plays in this release. |
Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals,
500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, over 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories,
3,000 author interviews, over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
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MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of
diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that
it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.
The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies,
supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material.
The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
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Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry,
extensive contemporary critical reviews,
as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars. |
Twayne Authors Series contains full text discussions
about works by 600 authors as well as a chronology
of their life.
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