Library Research Guide for Comparative Literature 108.03:
Eastern Novels, Western Prizes, Fall 2007

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/coml108fall07jk.html

 

Use these reference databases to find and access articles in a variety of subject encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides the full text of many encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and directories.

Credo Reference
A searchable collection containing 100 reference sources including subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources and quotations. Contains over 150,000 entries of facts, words, concepts, and people.

Oxford Reference Premium
Searchable database of 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press. Each topical division contains searchable versions of the latest editions of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. Includes English and bilingual dictionaries, dictionaries of quotations, etymology and euphemisms, and the World Encyclopedia. Covers general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professional subjects.

 

Use this reference database to search the indexes of both print and online subject encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Reference Universe
Searchable database of back-of-the-book indexes to subject encyclopedias

 

Use these additional reference resources for your class.

CHINA

China: A Country Study
4th edition. Washington: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.
Print editions: Kroch Asia stacks DS706.C43 1988 and Uris Library DS706.C43 1988

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture New York: Routledge, 2005.
Located: Kroch Asia Reference DS779.23 .E53 2005+
With a list of A-Z entries, this encyclopedia covers architecture and space, education, ethnicity and ethnic identity, fashion and design, film, food and drink, health, language, literature, media, music, political culture, religion, society, sports and recreation, visual arts, and women and gender. In addition to particular author entries, entries of interest include: information on literary awards, literary periodicals, literature in dialect, and literature in Taiwan. Each entry includes further reading.

Chi, Pang-yuan and David Der-wei Wang, eds. Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks PL2303 .C42646 2000

Hsia, Chih-tsing. A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks PL2442 .H8x 1999

Wang, Dewei. The Monster that is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks PL2443 .W244 2004

 

JAPAN

Japan: A Country Study
5th edition. Washington: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1992.
Print Edition: Kroch Asia Reference DS806 .C43 1991
Written by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, this online guide includes a profile of Japan and has chapters on history, society, environment, education, the arts, the character and structure of the economy, international economic relations, the political system, foreign relations, national security, and a lengthy bibliography for each chapter.

Perkins, Dorothy. Encyclopedia of Japan: Japanese History and Culture, from Abacus to Zori. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
Located: Kroch Asia Reference DS 805 .P44
An introduction to the history and culture of Japan. An alphabetical listing of major categories, cross references, and a bibliography at the end, with index.

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. New York: Kodansha, 1983-1986. 9 vols.
Located: Kroch Asia Reference DS 805 .K76 and Uris Reference
Represents a ten-year effort by Japanese and foreign scholars to compile the "first comprehensive encyclopedia" about Japan in English. Over 9,000 entries (the vast majority under 500 words) are contained in this eight-volume encyclopedia. A one-volume index completes the set. Coverage includes philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, literature and the arts, food and clothing from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Authors were asked to introduce the topic at a level appropriate to high school students with no familiarity with the subject and to expand to a level for advanced students. A letter-by-letter system of alphabetization is used and the Romanization system is Hepburn or Standard. Although bibliographies are appended to most of the longer articles, the encyclopedia would have been more useful with additional English citations (e.g. in the entry "advertising", the bibliography simply lists the American periodical Advertising Age along with three Japanese titles). The encyclopedia is illustrated with black and white photos, charts, and maps. The single most useful print source on Japan for the non-Japanese reader when it was published.

Hsu, Robert C. Modern Japanese Writers. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks +PL723 .M563x 2001 and Uris Reference PL723 .M563x 2001
Essays on the major 20th-century Japanese writers. Part of the reliable Scribners Writers series. Bibliographies of works by and about the authors.

Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 2 vols.
Located: Uris Library PL 726.55 .K39x 1998
A history of Japanese literature, covering novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and literary criticism.

Powell, Irena. Writers and Society in Modern Japan. New York : Kodansha, 1983.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks PL726.55 .P88, and Uris Library PL726.55 .P88
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 144-145

Rimer, J. Thomas. A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature. New York: Kodansha International, 1988.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks PL715 .R57 R28 and Uris Library Reference PL715 .R57

 

KOREA

North Korea: A Country Study
4th edition. Washington: Federal Research Division. Library of Congress, 1994.
Print editions: Kroch Asia Reference DS932.S57 1994 and Uris Library DS932.S57 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-321) and index.

South Korea: a Country Study
4th edition. Washington: Federal Research Division. Library of Congress, 1992.
Print editions: Kroch Asia Reference DS902.C59 1992 and Uris Library DS902 .S72 1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-375) and index.

Pratt, Keith L. Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks DS902 .P737x 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-543) and indexes.

Cho, Tong-il. Korean Literature in Cultural Context and Comparative Perspective. Seoul, Korea: Jipmoondang, 1997.
Located: Kroch Asia Stacks PL956 .C48x 1997

Chong-wha, Chung, ed. Meetings and Farewells: Modern Korean Stories. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1980.
Located: Kroch Asia Stacks PL984.E8 M49, and Uris Library PL984.E8 M49

Kim, Yun-sik. Understanding Modern Korean Literature. Translated by Jang Gyung-ryul.
Seoul, Korea: Jipmoondang Pub. Co., 1998.
Located: Kroch Asia Stacks PL958.7 .K676 1998

Lee, Peter H., ed. A History of Korean Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Located: Kroch Asia stacks PL956 .H57x 2003

 

Use these general databases for a multidisciplinary approach to finding articles.

ProQuest Research library
 Indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,650 academic multi-disciplinary serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

 

Use these databases for a search for literature-related articles.

LRC (Literature Resource Center)
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works

MLA Bibliography
The largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively.

 

Use this database for history-related articles.

Historical Abstracts
This historical periodical database includes annotated references to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. andCanada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Covers over 2000 journals, including historical journals from almost every country and selections of journals in the social sciences and humanities for researchers and students of history.

 

Use these databases for Asian-related articles.

Bibliography of Asian Studies.
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

China Academic Journals (CAJ)
Full-text electronic versions of 5,300 Chinese academic periodicals in 9 series: science-engineering (A-C), agriculture, medicine/hygiene, literature/history/philosophy, economics/politics/law, education/social science, and electronics/information science. The database includes current issues as well as archives of back issues of journals, and is reproduced with original pagination.

KISS (Korean Knowledge Information Services)
This database includes 800,000 full-text articles from 1200 academic associations in engineering, social sciences, literature, language/linguistics, medicine/pharmacy, natural sciences, agriculture, oceanography, fishery, art, and physical education. Similar to JSTOR. Subscribed to by the Wason Collection

 

Use these resources for primary sources

MLA Bibliography
The largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively.

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times (1851-2003), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), the Washington Post (1877-1990), every page from every issue in PDF files. The database is an ongoing project.

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November 15, 2007
Wendy Wilcox
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