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Tutorial: How to search Proquest One Literature

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ProQuest One Literature - Literature Online

ProQuest One Literature - Incorporating Literature Online This link opens in a new window Collection of 20th Century English Poetry, 20th Century Drama, 20th Century American Poetry literature, literary criticism, and reference works.

It has been designed as the foremost platform for conducting Literary Research and incorporates Literature Online.

It contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.

Enter your terms into the search box, e.g. romanticism AND byron.

Your results are displayed divided into content type.

For example, if you would like to locate the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Select Author Pages option from above the search box

Enter Geoffrey Chaucer in the search box this should give search options as shown below. Select "Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400" or select the Go Directly to option.

The Author Pages provides a short biography of the author, links to the primary texts, recent criticism, criticism over time and reference works.

For example, you are searching for texts related to war and death that were published between WW1 and WW2.

Select Primary Texts from the left hand side tab under
Enter war and death in the Key words in text box and search.
To restrict to the date range fill in the publication dates on the left hand side as shown below.
Enter 1914 in the Publication Date: From box.
Enter 1945 in the Publication Date: To box.
Click Update

The Texts list of results page will be displayed, listing the author, the title of the work containing the selected words and the line(s) containing the words.

For example, you are looking for occurrences of the word "jealousy" Literature Online will include old spellings as well for many keyword.

You can see the variants of Jealousy highlighted below:

For example, you are searching for reference material on the works of Scott Fitzgerald.

Select: Reference Works
Enter Fitzgerald, Scott into the Subject box.
Click Search.

The results list will display all relevant materials.

For example, you would like to hear Jayne Cortez reading her own works.

Scroll down to the Poets on Screen Collection and select it.
Search for Jayne Cortez in the search box.
Click on "The Guitars I used to know." You can now watch the video.

Or, you would like to listen to a Shakespearean Play.

Scroll down to the Shakespeare Audio Plays Collection and select it.
Select Shakespeare Audio Plays.
Under browse specific issues select 2003
Click on "Loves Labor Lost"

Here you can listen to the full play or select the relevant act.

For example, you are interested in learning more about poet Ezra Pound and hope to locate some of his poems.

Select the Author Pages from the search options above the search box.
Type in Pound Ezra and this should give option below for Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 and search.
Then select the Author page result.
At the bottom of the profile, you can access Primary Text, Recent Criticism, Criticism Over Time and Relevant Reference Works.