CC115 Research Seminar Help Page: James Joyce's Ulysses, Spring 2008

Finding Articles [off campus access] [tips]

Historical Abstracts Historical coverage of world events from 1450 to the present [more...]

New York Times Index Ref. AI21 .N45 (1854 - date) in print

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Ref. AI3 .R48 (1900 - date) in print

MLA Bibliography The definitive database for scholarly English literature resources [more...]

Project Muse Full-text access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers [more...]

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GALILEO - VU Libraries Catalog resources available at VU libraries [more...]

Most works by and about the author James Joyce, and Ulysses' primary characters "Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus" can be found on the 4th floor beginning with the call number PR6019.O9. In addition to Joyce's novels and collections of essays, our collection includes essays, letters, a number of biographies, and dozens of works of criticism.

Ulysses as a comic novel PR6019.O9 U629 1989
Leopold Bloom PR6019.O9 U6744 2004
Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom : Ulysses as narrative PR6019.O9 U687
Molly Blooms : a polylogue on "Penelope" and cultural studies PR6019.O9 U6843 1994
Ulysses, en-gendered perspectives : eighteen new essays on the episodes PR6019.O9 U7496 1999
Cambridge companion to James Joyce PR6019.O9 Z52637 2004
Reader's guide to James Joyce PR6019.O9 Z833 1995

The United States of America v. one book entitled Ulysses by James Joyce : documents and commentary : a 50-year retrospective Law Stacks KF9444 .U53 1984

Subject Headings
Joyce James 1882 1941
Joyce James 1882 1941 Criticism And Interpretation
Joyce James 1882 1941 Ulysses

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Reference, Background, & Primary Source Resources [tips]

Online -- See the Christopher Center Guide: E-Resources: English Language and Literature

Biography Resource Center Comprehensive biographical information about authors is available online through this comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 165,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Literary Index Combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names and more than 140,000 titles. Provides quick and easy access/indexing to 40 Gale literary compilations, containing complete author biographies and critical essays on their writings.

Print -- Christopher Center Reference, 2nd floor

Key Resource:
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) Ref. PN 771 .G27   TCLC presents criticism on major literary figures and nonfiction writers, it includes novelists, poets, playwrights, and literary theorists from 1900-1999.

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature 5v. Ref. PR 19 .O95 2006
Oxford Companion to English Literature Ref. PR 19 .O94 2000
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English Ref. PR 85 .C29 2006

World Literature and Its Times, v. 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present (1837- ) Ref. PR 471.M65 2001
The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel, v.2: 20th Century Ref. PR 821 .F2 2006
Notable British Novelists 3v. Ref. PR 821 .N57 2001

Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth century Ref. E740.7 .E53 1996

Recommended Internet Resources [tips]

James Joyce Centre
http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/

Project Gutenberg EText of Ulysses by James Joyce
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext03/ulyss10h.htm

Ulysses by James Joyce
"A hypertextual, self-referential edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, using the Project Gutenberg edition of the text."
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/ulysses/ulysses.cgi?word=Ulysses

British Library: Newspapers
http://portico.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html

British Library: Online Gallery Showcases http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/themes.html

British National Archives: Research Guide
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=378

EuroDocs: History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents, 1816 - 1918
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Britain_1816-1918 

The British Library: Collect Britain http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/

INTUTE: History: Browse
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/history/

Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp

Citing & Evaluating Sources

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
   --found in Reference, Reserve, and on 3rd floor LB2369 .G53 2003

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VU Writing Center: http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter/

Craft of research 4th floor Q180.55.M4 B66 2003

Critical Evaluation of Resources
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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
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