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LITERARY FORM, GENRES, ----SELECTED RESOURCES
See also related topics: Literature Authorship Elements of Fiction
Journalism	Short Story	Essay	Drama	Biography	Technical Report
Primary sources,	Poetry	Novel	Satire	Criticism	Scriptwriting
specific themes:	Science , Horror, Detective/Crime/mystery , Fantasy, Love. adventure, etc...				Keeley Library July 27, 2000

BACKGROUND

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LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES- -BROWSING GUIDE 810's
See our guide, Finding Your Way in the Library, and our Library Floor Plan to locate books and other materials. on the shelves.

809's Literature, broad topics
Poetry Call Number: First 3 digits end with a 1 Drama Call Number First 3 digits end with a 2 Fiction Call Number First 3 digits ends with a 3 Essay Call Number First 3 digits end with a 4	Speeches Call Number First 3 digits end with a 5 Letters Call Number First 3 digits end with a 6 Humor and Satire First 3 digits end with a 7 Miscellaneous First 3 digits end with an 8
Examples: American Poetry 811 British Drama 822 German Fiction 833

To locate items in our library network, search our New WebCat™using the following subjects.

Memory in literature
Space and time in literature
Psychology in literature
Future in literature
Liberty in literature Essay
Style, Literary
Literature--Terminology
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Transmission of texts Genre (Literature)
Literary form
Literary research
Literature--Research
Film genres

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SELECTED VIDEORECORDINGS

Fiction into film literature goes to the movies /	Video 791.437 F448 1976B
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SELECTED DURFEE REFERENCE BOOKS FOR GENRES AND THEMES

The call number for each will bring you to the general area for that genre. We've chosen to list some of our newer selections from the "...for students" series and the Magill Critical Survey series. Most students enjoy using these books, so you may want to start here when you explore the different genres in our Literature Reference Collection.

Genre	Title	Call Number
Poetry and Poets- Epics	Poetry for Students Epics for Students	Ref. 809.1 P745 Ref. 809.132
Novels	Novels for Students	Ref. 809.3 N939
Short Stories	Short Stories for Students	Ref. 809.301 S559
Drama	Drama for Students Shakespeare for Students	Ref. 809.2 D763 Ref. 822.33 ES4282
Rhetoric	Representative American Speeches	Ref. 815.508 R425
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Biography	Need to add..	..
Criticism by Genre: Magill Survey's also are bibliographic guides, which includea list of related books and articles. Near these books will be other critical studies. Literary Criticism by Period Literary Critics	Survey of Contemporary Literature Critical survey of drama. Supplement Critical Survey of Poetry Foreign Language Series Critical Survey of Short Fiction Current Writers Critical Survey of Drama Foreign Language Series Critical Survey of Long Fiction Foreign Language Survey of Science Fiction Literature Critical Survey of Drama English Language Series Critical Survey of Poetry English Language Series Critical Survey of Long Fiction English Language Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism Contemporary Literary Criticism Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Shakespearean Criticism	Ref. Ref. 809.2 C934 1987 Ref. 808.04 M194 Ref. 809.1003 C934 Ref. 809.31 Ref. 809.2 C934 Ref. 809.3 C934 Ref. 809.3876 S963 Ref. 822.009 C934 Ref. 821.009 C934 Ref. 809.03 L776 Ref. 809. 034 N714 Ref. 809.04 C761 Ref. 809.04 T971 Ref. 822.33 ES527
Essay, Essayists	Essays and English Traits (Harvard Classics)	Ref. 080 H339 v.5
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Thematic Guides	Identities and Issues in Literature	Ref. 810.992 I19

SELECTED BOOKS IN THE CIRCULATING COLLECTION

Milton's brief epic; the genre, meaning, and and art of Paradise regained.	821.4 M662ZLE
Themes in world literature	808.8 T383
Shakespeare's comedies: explorations in form.	822.33 DB534
Great slave narratives	305.56330922 B722
Science fiction : a collection of critical essays	809.3876 S416
Portraits in words : an introduction to the study of biography	808.849351 P853
Biography as an art; selected criticism,	920.002 B615

SELECTED WEB SITES
Classified Web Resources Used for the Topic Guide Web LInks

American Slave Narratives	Film Criticism and American Literature
Children's Literature Web Guide	Online Literary Criticism Collection
Web Bin Links on Rhetoric, Composition, Critical Theory, ..	Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
The Gothic and American Literature	The Frontier in American Literature

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September, 1978 to June, 2001