Eresource News: September 2007 Archives
How We Talk: American Regional English Today is now available online via Credo Reference. How We Talk discussed the origins of American regional dialects, explaining why different parts of the country use different words to mean the same things (carry versus tote, for example) or why the same words are pronounced differently in the South as opposed to the North.
A new edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is now available online via Credo Reference.Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers meanings and origins of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags. The new edition includes 1500 new articles, such as words and phrases (Al-Qaeda, 9/ll), characters, places (and monsters) from fantasy literature (including The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter), famous political and sporting nicknames (Butcher of Baghdad, Goldenballs).
Misattributed quotations, first lines of novels, 'etymologies of group names and French/Spanish/German/Italian idioms are also included.
Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work is now available online via Credo Reference, formerly xreferplus.Holocaust Literature presents a broad spectrum of voices remembering, interpreting, and reinterpreting one of the twentieth century's most politically and emotionally charged events. The encyclopedia features 300+ bio-critical essays on all of the key authors who have written about the Holocaust.
Six new literary titles have recently been added to the Cambridge Collections Online Companions collection. The new titles include:
Periodicals Archive Online now has full-text access to 16 additional journals, including Journal of Narrative Theory (1971-2000) and Literature/Film Quarterly (1973-1993; 1995).For a complete list of the journals, see What's New.
Literature Online (LION) now offers six new titles to its collection of full-text journals: Browning Society Notes, New Formations, George Herbert Journal, Fifteenth-Century Studies, Goethe Yearbook, and Renaissance Drama. Also, with the addition of 25 new or revised biographies, covering authors such as Steven Berkoff, Kiran Desai, Lawrence Durrell, John Galsworthy, Mike Leigh, Wyndham Lewis, Grace Paley and Rebecca West, Literature Online, now contains over 4,100 biographies.