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Literature Resource Center (LRC)

LRC, Scribner Writer Series, and Twayne Author's Series
DescriptionInludes biographical, bibliographical, and critical articles on "literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more." LRC is built on Thomson Gale's three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online (CA), offering biographical coverage of more than 124,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLCS), featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online (DLC), containing more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

The LRC includes in addition:

  • Selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
  • Current, full-text critical essays on major authors via links to more than 260 prominent literary journals.
  • The "Scribner Writer Series, featuring more than 1500 biocritical essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods, and the Twayne Author's Series, including Twayne's US Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors.
  • Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring more than 10,000 descriptive entries on literary figures, works, and terms, is included in the basic subscription to the Literature Resource Center.
SubjectsLiterature and related topics
CoverageCoverage varies
PublisherThomson Gale
VendorThomson Gale
Print EquivalentBased on Contemporary Authors Online (CA), Contemporary Literary Criticism Select(CLCS), Dictionary of Literary Biography Online (DLC), selections from other Gale literature series & Scribner Writer Series, and Twayne Author's Series.
LicenseThis is a Saskatchewan Multi-type Library Database Licensing Project (MDLP) license.

There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users.

Access to the Literature Resource Center is restricted to current patrons of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use.

Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.