Calling all literature in English students: access to digital encyclopedia of world literature

[[[image-0 medium left]]]Are you a literature in English student looking for a new resource to help you with your studies?

Library Services has access to The Literary Encyclopedia, a reliable scholarly online literary reference resource for English language readers.  It takes all world literature as its field and publishes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, including those often neglected; and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters relating to the social context in which the works were written.

Entries are divided into three databases, people, works, and topics and events, covering English, American, Canadian, German and Russian literatures as well as substantial and increasing coverage of French, Italian, Japanese, Classical Greek, Latin, Hispanic and East European.

Features include:

• highly sophisticated advanced searches which can be customised, saved and retrieved
• visual horizontal timelines
• detailed individual chronologies for selected writers
• bookshelves which enable users to save articles, author chronologies and reference groups to their own virtual private “bookshelves”

The OU Library gives you access to a vast range of high quality, trusted resources to support you with your studies. We really value your feedback so please give us your comments about this resource using the feedback form on the library website