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Carolina BLU Campus Delivery Service 
Through the Carolina BLU Delivery Service, you can request to have books and articles available at any of the UNC-CH campus libraries, as well as books and articles requested through interlibrary loan, delivered to the campus library most convenient to you.
L.C. Call Nos.
This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, Romance language dictionaries will be classed in the PCs; Romance language literatures will be classed in the PQs; and European history will be classed in the Ds.
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Use this Map to find books in Davis Reference.
Call No. Locations in Davis
Use this Location Guide to find books in Davis.
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Useful Websites
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
In addition to English & American Literarute, see Other National Literatures
Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, UCSB)
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown)
Academic Databases 
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As with encyclopedic resources, there are indexes for almost any topic that might be supplemental to literary research, and these may be arranged by subject discipline(history, philosophy, religion, art, etc), by period, or by region. If you are unsure of an appropriate index to use, try searching E-Research Tools By Subject and first try the "Recommended Databases."
MLA International Bibliography
A major index of literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. In addition to indexing several thousand journals, MLA also covers relevant books, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLA is a very ambitious index, providing indexing of criticism for all literatures worldwide, except for classical Greek and Latin literature. For literary criticism of classical authors search L'Annee Philologique.
MLA now links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse, two major full-text journal collections.
Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various Gale criticism sets. It is possbile in LRC to search for authors individually or to perform a "Person Search," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on literary authors and also on cultural theorists (e.g., de Man, Kermode, etc. . The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides much excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version.
Literary Theory
A database of theoretical texts ranging from Aristotle to Sedgwick. The criteria for the inclusion of works in Literary Theory seek to reflect the diverse material and interests encompassed by the history of literary theory and criticism.
In addition to works written in English, the database includes works which were originally written in other languages but which have had a significant bearing on English and American traditions of
theory and criticism, or which have influenced contemporary theoretical debate in the English-speaking world. All works in the database appear in English.
Bible in English (990-1970)
This collection contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
Blackwell Bible Commentaries Website
This free website has much bibliographic information concerning Biblical commentary and samples of the actual commentaries.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a database of high quality visual images.
More Article Databases | How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text? | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?
Finding Books 
Catalog Search Tips
Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.
Keyword Search: Dante aesthetics
Search by LC Subject Heading: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.
POTENTIALLY USEFUL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Symbolism.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.
Lewis, C. S.--(Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
Personification in literature.
Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.
Author: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.
Subject: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.
Encyclopedic Resources for Literature & Allegory
Subject encyclopedias can be very useful for providing an overview and context for a variety of specialized topics. Most essays will also include a bibliography.
Companion to literary myths : heroes and archetypes. Edited by Pierre Brunel ; translated from the French by Wendy Allatson, Judith Hayward, Trista Selous. London ;New York : Routledge, 1992.
Davis Reference PN56.M95 D4813 1992
The Oxford classical dictionary [electronic resource]. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford ;New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Davis Reference Desk DE5 .O9 2003
The dictionary of classical mythology . By Pierre Grimal. New York : Blackwell, 1985.
Davis Reference BL715 .G713 1985
Elsevier's dictionary of symbols and imagery . By Ad de Vries ; revised and updated by Arthur de Vries. Amsterdam ;Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Davis Reference Desk BL600 .V74 2004
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. + Suppl. Joseph R. Strayer, editor in chief. New York : Scribner, c1982-c1989.
An excellent encyclopedia with a very detailed index. See the essay on "Allegory."
Davis Reference, Art Reference, Undergrad Reference D114 .D5 1982
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols. Paul F. Grendler, editor in chief. New York : Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999.
A standard encyclopedia for the Renaissance.
Davis Reference CB361 .E52 1999
Enciclopedia dantesca. 5 vols. + Suppl. Roma, Institvto della Enciclopedia italiana, [1970-
Davis Reference PQ4333 .E5
The Dante encyclopedia. Editor, Richard Lansing ; associate editors, Teodolinda Barolini ... [et al.] ; advisors, Steven Botterill ... [et al.]. New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
Davis Reference PQ4333 .D36 2000
Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English . 3 vols. Edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. 2nd ed. London ;New York : Routledge, 2005.
First edition available electronically.
Davis Reference PR9080.A52 E53 2005
Literary Terminology & Theory
The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Edited by George A. Kennedy. Cambridge [England] ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989- [ongoing]
v. 1. Classical criticism -- v. 2. The Middle Ages-- v. 3. The Renaissance -- v. 4. The eighteenth century -- v. 5. Romanticism -- v. 6 (not published as of 8/09) -- v. 7. Modernism and the new criticism -- v. 8. From formalism to poststructuralism -- v. 9.
Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives.
Davis Reference PN86 .C27 1989
Encyclopedia of contemporary literary theory : approaches, scholars, terms. Irena R. Makaryk, general editor and compiler. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1993.
Davis Reference PN81 .E43 1993
Encyclopedia of literary critics and criticism. 2 vols. Consultant, John Sutherland ; edited by Chris Murray. London ;Chicago, IL : Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
Davis Reference PN86 .E63 1999
The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism. Edited by Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. 2nd ed. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
An important guide to theory & theorists .
Davis Reference PN81 .J554 2005
The Oxford dictionary of literary terms [electronic resource]Chris Baldick. 3rd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
The year's work in critical and cultural theory [electronic resource]. Oxford : Published for the English Association by Blackwell Publishers, c1994-
An annual series of bibliographic essays, covering topics as diverse as deconstruction, modernism & postmodernism, virtual cultures, film theory, and colonial discourse.
Davis Reference PN80 .Y43 v. 1- (1991-) TO DATE Currently received.