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English1B LatinX Scrofano: Literary Databases

This guide is designed to help students research materials that will be helpful for Professor Scrofano's LatinX-themed English 1B class.

Literary Databases of the Moorpark College Library

Tips:

  • This database includes literary criticism from scholarly journals, as well as work overviews from reference books.
  • For best results, use the "Works Search" search to find information on poems, short stories, novels and plays. 
  • Use the "Person Search" to get information on a particular author. 

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Example

A "Works Search" on George Orwell's novel Animal Farm yields the following results:

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This database includes scholarly criticism examining great authors and their works. The database has full-length videos of classic plays and films, hundreds of full-texts, classic works, full-text poems, and stories, and more. It also includes essay topics and tips for how to write about frequently studied authors. Bloom's Literature home page