ENG 46000: Modernism and its Global Inheritors

      Begin by running a Subject search on your author.  For example, a Subject search on Woolf, Virginia in the IC Library catalog retrieves--

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Family.   
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Knowledge and learning   
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway    
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Political and social views
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. To the lighthouse   
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Views on feminism  
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Views on race

     Since you will already have the texts you are writing about, running an Author search might seem unnecessary. But Author searches often uncover collections of letters, essays, and non-fiction works that shed light on both the writer and the work. An Author search on Woolf, Virginia retrieves--

Woolf, Virgina. Collected Essays.
Woolf, Virgina. Flush, a biography by Virginia Woolf
Woolf, Virgina. Freshwater : a comedy / Virginia Woolf  [her only play--a farce]
Woolf, Virgina. A haunted house, and other short stories
Woolf, Virgina. Letters: Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway [DVD].
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando [DVD].
Woolf, Virginia.  The second Common reader  [literary criticism]
Woolf, Virginia. A writer’s diary: being extracts from the diary of Virginia Woolf

Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism
Modernism (Literature)--Europe
Modernism (Literature)--England
Modernism (Literature)--France
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain
Modernism (Literature)--Ireland
Modernism (Literature)--Latin America
Modernism (Literature)--Russia
Modernism (Literature)--Spain
Modernism (Literature)--United States

Note: Strictly speaking, "Literature, Modern" refers to the historiographical concept of the modern world: potentially anything after the Middle Ages. But the distinction between this and the Modernist movement can become very blurred, especially in treatments of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Literature, Modern
Literature, Modern--History and criticism
Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century
Experimental fiction--History and criticism  [avant-garde fiction]
Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism  [avant-garde poetry]
Experimental theater  [avant-garde theater]
Experimental drama--History and criticism

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Point of view (Literature)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Time in literature
Space in literature

Psychoanalysis and literature
Psychoanalytic interpretation
Stream of consciousness fiction
Free indirect speech
Surrealism (Literature)
Communism and literature
Socialist realism in literature
Marxist criticism
Authoritarianism in literature
Totalitarianism and literature
Fascism and literature
Fascism in literature
Existentialism in literature
Absurd (Philosophy) in literature
Theater of the absurd
Beat generation
Magic realism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature) [including metafiction]
Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism
Graphic novels--History and criticism

Formalism (Literary analysis)
New Criticism
Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Semiotics and literature
Deconstruction
Poststructuralism
Feminist theory
Feminist criticism
Feminist literary criticism
Feminism and literature
Sex role in literature
Gender identity in literature
Queer theory
Homosexuality and literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States
Ecocriticism

Postcolonialism in literature
Imperialism in literature
Race in literature
Racism in literature
Minorities in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Ethnic groups in literature
Multiculturalism in literature
Literature and globalization
Theater and globalization
Culture and globalization

Translating and interpreting
Translating and interpreting--Methodology
Translating and interpreting--Philosophy
Translating and interpreting--Psychological aspects
Translating and interpreting--Social aspects

Modernism (Aesthetics)
Aesthetics, Modern
Aesthetics, Modern--19th century
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century

Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Art)--Europe
Modernism (Art)--United States
Painting, Modern--20th century
Art, Abstract
Cubism
Futurism (Art) 
vorticism 
Constructivism (Art)
Dadaism
Surrealism
Expressionism (Art)
Abstract expressionism--United States
Minimal art
Pop art
Conceptual art
Video art 
Computer art
Digital art
Interactive art.
Appropriation (Art)
Mashups (World Wide Web)
Art and globalization
Arts and globalization

Modern movement (Architecture)
Modern movement (Architecture)--United States
Architecture, Modern
Architecture, Modern--19th century
Architecture, Modern--20th century
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Philosophy
Architecture, Modern--20th century--United States
Architecture and globalization

Modernism (Music)
Music--20th century--Philosophy and aesthetics
Avant-garde (Music)
Atonality
Twelve-tone system
Modern dance
Modern dance--Philosophy

Experimental films--History and criticism
Motion pictures--Philosophy
Motion pictures--Social aspects
Motion pictures and literature
Motion pictures and globalization

     MLA International Bibliography  provides the most complete and fully indexed coverage of articles and books on modern literatures, linguistics, folklore, rhetoric, and composition from 1925 to the present. There is ample full text provided by ProQuest, as well as links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse. Full text from other IC databases is also readily available via the "GetIt" links below article citations.
     Because books, book chapters/essays, and dissertations will usually not be available full text, you may wish to limit your search to "Journal article" under "Source type."
     "Author's Work" and "Author as Subject" will be especially helpful search fields at finding literary criticism. And for additional search field options either click on "Show more fields," or, for the complete list, open the drop-down menus to the right of the "Anywhere" default for the top three rows of search slots. This list includes both "Literary Influence"--who influenced a particular author you have entered--and "Literary Source"--who was influenced by that particular author.
        JSTOR access to journal articles begins 2-4 years prior to the present--so don't look for any criticism from the last couple of years--but coverage always extends back to the first issue of each journal--in some cases into the 19th century and beyond. This allows you, for instance, to retrieve articles responding to the early works of Ernest Hemingway from the 1920s. Set the date range "Limit" below the search slots to target an era. 

    Project Muse , although a smaller database, it complements JSTOR.  LIke JSTOR it provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the last 10-15 years.  Muse offers a basic keyword search (be sure to put the titles of literary works in quotation marks).  Once you've retrieved a set of articles you can sort them into broad categories using the Research Area options on the left.  
    Note: Checking the "Articles" box under Content Type before you run a search will eliminate reviews of books about your topic and leave you with just the articles on your topic.

     ProQuest Research Library & Academic Search Premier  are comprehensive databases  and include considerable literary criticism--much of it full text. In running searches on authors, don't settle for a Keyword search on the author's name, as this will retrieve too many articles in which the author is only mentioned in passing. Instead use the specialized Subject search each provides. In ProQest enter the name, last name first, in the "Person" slot. In Academic Search Premier open the "Select a Field" drop down menu and search the name, last name first, in the "People" field.
     In both databases the titles of literary works must be searched as Keyword phrases, so be sure to put them in quotation marks.
     In both databases you can set a "Document Type" limit and choose "Book review" or, if it's a contemporary writer, "Interview." (For a contemporary writer you might also try an "Author" search, since many writers publish criticism and social commentary that might shed light on their creative work.)

      General OneFile  is another comprehensive database with considerable literary criticism, but the default Subject search forcess you to retrieve EVERYTHING on a particular author. The standard "subdivisions" by which General OneFile organizes these results--"Ethical Aspects," Political Aspects," "Social Aspects"--are broad in respect to authors. 
     If you wish to focus on a particular a theme, the best strategy is to open all the results from the initial Subject search and then use the the "Search within these Results" slot at the upper left to enter thematic Keywords.
     If you wish to focus on a specific literary work, open "Advanced Search" and in the "Select Index" box choose "Named Work": this allows you to run a Subject search on a title.

     New York Times (1851-2009)  offers the full text of the New York Times from 1851 up to 2006, so you can access contemporary reviews and articles about authors and artists associated with Modernism. Enter a Keyword search, putting phrases in quotation marks. You might begin by searching in the “Citation and Abstract” field, then, if this doesn’t yield enough results, expand to the default “Citation and document text” field.  And many of these figures from the 20s and 30s had sufficient written about them over the entire course of their careers--and perhaps even more postumously--that you will want to target the critical reception in particular eras by using the date range limits below the search slots.

   America: History and Life : This database can be valuable because it allows you to set a "Historical Period" limit (below the search slots on the left).  If you set this for 1919-1940, any Subjects or Keywords you enter above will retrieve articles on that topic. But: be aware that setting a Period limit of 1919-1940 will also retrieve any Period that contains those 21 years--for example an article on American poetry between 1865 and 2000.
     Be sure to set the "Document Type" limit to "Article" to weed out all the many book reviews that will otherwise clot your search for articles.

     Literary Reference Center : The emphasis here is on articles from a wide range of reference resources, including Magill's Survey of American Literature, Cyclopedia of World Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Masterplots, etc.  There is also access to the Critical Insights book series published by Salem Press, each volume dedicated to a single author or a single work. Both the reference works and the Critical Insights series provide very basic biography and interpretation, but these are supplemented by selected scholarly articles.
     The simplest approach may be to enter a single author or a particular work in the "Most Studied Authors" or "Most Studied Works" sections of the "Browse" box. An Author or Work record will offer you "Related Information" categories such as "Literary Criticism," "Reference Books," "Biography," and "Plot Summaries." 
     In addition to literary criticism and reference, there is a wide range of full-text literary works supplied (mostly) by Project Gutenberg.

• English Literature & Language
• Avant-Garde Arts
• Eugene O'Neill
• Ernest Hemingway
• Harlem Renaissance
• Writing

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Authors:
 

• Fragmenting Modernism : Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War  
• Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing
• Ford Madox Ford : Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations
• Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity
• Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism  
• Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde : War, Civilization, Modernity 
• Faulkner and Postmodernism
• Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century
• Faulkner's Imperialism : Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth 
• Contemporary World Writers : Michael Ondaatje
• Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing 
• Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation [Ondaatje & Coetzee]
• J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship
• Old Myths - Modern Empires : Power, Language and Identity in J.M. Coetzee's Work  
• Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
• Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History [chapter on Bolano]
• Reading the 21st Century : Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 [section on Bolano]
• European Literary Heritage in an Age of Globalization [chapter on Bolano]

Modernism:
 

• Literary Modernism and Beyond : The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text 
• Modernist Cultural Studies
• Modern/Postmodern : Society, Philosophy, Literature
• Theorizing Modernism
• What Ever Happened to Modernism? 
• Paradoxy of Modernism 
• Modernism and Democracy : Literary Culture 1900-1930 
• Modernism, 1910-1945 : Image to Apocalypse
• Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922
• Modernist Literature 
• Modernism, Nationalism & the Novel 
• Ashes Taken for Fire : Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity
• Waking Giants : The Presence of the Past in Modernism
• Modernism and Hegemony : A Materialistic Critique of Aesthetic Agencies  
• Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism
• Patterns for America : Modernism and the Concept of Culture
• American Modernism's Expatriate Scene
• African American Roots of Modernism : From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
• Modernism, Expressionism & Theories of the Avant-Garde
• Imaginary Communities : Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
• Europa! Europa? : The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent 
• Modernism and the Ideology of History : Literature, Politics, and the Past
• Modernist Writing & Reactionary Politics
• Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community 
• Modernism, Narrative and Humanism

Note: For the first two, peruse the links to related articles along the left margin.
 

• Modernism: Oxford Companion to English Literature
• Modernism and Postmodernism: Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance​
• Dada and Surrealism and Cubism: Grove Art
• Modernism: Grove Music

Authors:
 

• Ford Madox Ford Society: Some content under "News and Events" and "Publications." Also note this essay by Julian Barnes on The Good Soldier.
• Virginia Woolf in the Virtual World: Gateway site from Smith College Library.
• William Faulkner on the Web: Be sure to look at the "Links" section.
• Michael Ondaatje: Fairly good gateway page at The Scriptorium: The Modern Word. Ondaatje's Table: A 2012 interview with Odaatje in Guernica: A magazine of Art & Politics.
• J.M. Coetzee: New York Times collection of articles. J.M. Coetzee: Biographical:From the Noble Prize organization.
• Who Was Roberto Bolano? from Salon. Interview with Roberto Bolano from Bomb magazine. Robert Bolano News: New York Times

Modernism:
 

• The Modern Word: This site is devoted to experimental and avant-garde 20th century writers.
• The Modernism Lab: "a virtual space dedicated to collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism. We hope, by a process of shared investigation, to describe the emergence of modernism out of a background of social, political, and existential ferment. The project covers the period 1914-1926." Interesting Yale resource. The YNote section is probably most useful, as well as the Digital Archive and Featured Research.
• Modernist Cultures: Open-source e-journal that "seeks to open modernism up to new kinds of inquiry, new subjects, and new arguments."
• Modernism/modernity: This leading Modernism journal is available full text from 1994 to the present in the Project Muse database. (Log-in required)
• Modernist Journals Project: A joint project of Brown and the University of Tulsa, this site is "a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from the early 20th century." And note the Contextual Tools.
• Modernist / Avant-Garde Links: Michael Webster at Grand Valley State University collected this extensive and well-organized set of links.
• Resources on Modernism: Set of links from the University of Maryland.
• Perspectives in American Literature: American Modernism, A Brief Introduction: An outline of the subject.
• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory: Succinct overview of the various theoretical appraoches that dominated literary criticism in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
• Literary Resources: Twentieth Century British, Irish, and Commonwealth: Links by author.
• Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English: Pockets of interesting material here.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature: Modern
• Voice of the Shuttle: Postmodernism
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature: Contemporary
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
• The Roots Of Modernism: This is an art history resource, but the essay here is wide ranging and discusses the cultural context.
• Modernism: Interesting, lavishly illustrated online exhibit from the Minneapolis Museum of Arts.
• Welcome to the 1913 Armory Show: outstanding site from the University of Virgina that allows you to go on a virtual tour of the International Exhibition of Modern Art.

MLA is the citation style used by most disciplines in the Humanities. The guides below use the most recent 2008/9 standards.

• MLA Citation Guide: Books (Print & Web)
• MLA Citation Guide: Newspaper, Magazine, Journal articles (Print & Web)
• MLA Citation Guide: Web and Multimedia
• MLA Citation Guide: In-text Citations

Noodlebib guides you through the required data entry for citation in the MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles. It takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.