Finding Literary Works in LION
Searching by Author: Single Author
Choosing "Authors" from the home page menu will open the "Search : Authors" screen.
Enter author's name.
A Chaucer link is retrieved, indicating full texts by Chaucer are available. Click link.
This retrieves all the options for Chaucer.
At the top is a link to "Texts by Geoffrey Chaucer."
Under "Resources" are links to criticism, a bibliography, a biography, Web sites about Chaucer, and audio-video clips of readings from Chaucer.
Click on Texts.
An author's works are classified by literary genre: poetry, drama, and prose.
LION supplies 80 full-text works by Chaucer under Poetry.
In addition to its own Chaucer archives, LION links to 32 selected Web sites featuring full text.
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Searching by Author: Author Categories
There are 6 author categories you can search singly or in combination:
Date span for author's life
Gender
Nationality by continent or country
Ethnic identity
Named literary movement
Broad literary period
Nationality, Ethnicity, Literary Movement, and Literary Period all use a predefined vocabulary, so be sure to click on the "select from a list" links to see the options -- sampled below.
Here's an example of combining 3 categories: author dates, nationality, and literary movement ...
... and here is a sample of the authors who match all 3 categories.
(Note: Italo Calvino's appearance here is not an error. Although he lived in Italy and wrote
in Italian, he was born in Cuba.)
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