As of 2017, GALE Literary Sources, including eight literary databases, can be accessed from National Széchényi Library. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive literary database packages of the world.
As of 2017, GALE Literary Sources [1], including eight literary databases, can be accessed from National Széchényi Library. It is one of the largest and most compresensive literary database packages of the world. Integrated search can be done in the following literary databases:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. This literature resourceincludes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Click here to retrieve title list [2].
Literature Criticism Online
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online.Includes centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Click here to retrieve title list [3]
Literature Resource Center – LRC
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. Click here to retrieve title list [4]
LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. Click here to retrieve title list [4]
Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present.It includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which lists detailed information on over 5,500 journals, including over 4,400 indexed in the Bibliography. Click here to retrieve title list [4]
Scribner Writers on GVRL
Scribner Writers Series provides original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. Entries include concise essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author and their works. Click here to retrieve title list [5]
Something About the Author Online
Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's™ acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authorsand illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people. Content is delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Click here to retrieve title list [6]
Twayne's Authors on GVRL
Database containing the material of the 800+-volume printed series bearing the same title. Twayne's is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary works. Click here to retrieve title list [7]