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English Subject GuideResearch SurveysResearch surveys compare, contrast, and evaluate research published in a given year. American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (1998 - Current)
An evaluative annual review of noteworthy scholarship on American literature. The individual chapters are written by noted scholars and cover such things as major writers, types of literature, periods, foreign scholarship by country, and reference works. Earlier issues, back to 1963, are available in hardcopy in the general collection stacks, call # PS/3/.A47.
Connect to ALS Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2002 - 2006)
A "narrative bibliography" of important criticism on literature, media, and cultural studies. Coverage is selective and chapter titles vary from year to year. Earlier issues, back to 1995, are available in hardcopy in the reference collection stacks, call # Ref/PN/80/.Y43. The current 2007 and 2008 issues are also shelved here.
Connect to YWCCT Year's Work in English Studies (2001 - 2008)
Evaluates important criticism published in a given year. Arrangement is by individual chapters covering periods, nationalities, individual major authors, English language, bibliography and textual criticism. Coverage is selective. Earlier volumes, from 1919 to 1997, are available in hardcopy shelved in the reference collection, call # Ref/PE/58/.E6.
Connect to YWES Yearbook of English Studies (1971 - 2008)
Now published semiannually, each issue of Yearbook of English Studies covers a broad topic of current interest in literature. Within the broad topic, survey articles attempt to highlight emerging areas of study. There is a time lag of a few years before issues of YES become available online. Until available online, current hardcopy volumes are shelved in the reference stacks, call # Ref/PN/12/.Y4. They are entitled Translation (2006), Victorian Literature (2006), From Decadent to Modernist (2007), Science Fiction (2007), and Tudor Literature (2008).
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