Want to practise your database search skills?
Find answers to questions in this quiz by searching the Literature Resource Center.
1. Find a list of authors from the “Harlem Renaissance” movement
Hint: Use the “author type” search and select Harlem Renaissance on the Literary Movement list.
2. Find a New Zealand poet who writes on the theme of “alienation”
Hint: Again, use author type. Choose “New Zealander” as nationality, poetry as genre and “alienation“ as a theme.
3. What was the first novel published by J. G. Ballard?
Hint: Enter “Ballard, J. G.” on the author search box on the main page. Use the link to the Contemporary Authors profile, which covers life and works.
4. Find a critical essay on Carson McCullers’ The member of the wedding
Hint: Use the advanced search function and enter the author’s name and title. Limit the current search to critical essays.
5. Find the winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in letters-general non fiction
Hint: Use the Literary-Historical timeline search, and search between 1969 and 1970.
6. What are some of the key aspects of Imagism?
Hint: Click on the “Encyclopedia of Literature” button at the top of the screen. Enter “Imagism”.
7. Find an interview with Charles M. Schulz
Hint: Use advanced search and enter Schulz, Charles under author. Limit the search to interviews.
8. Find some critical essays on postmodern feminists
Hint: Do a keyword search for “postmodernism” and “feminism”. Click on the Literary Criticism, Articles and Work Overviews button.
9. Find an essay about Byron written by Camille Paglia
Hint: Use advanced search. Select critic and enter Paglia, Camille and enter Byron under Author, using the Boolean operator AND.
10. Find a list of websites on Christopher Isherwood
Hint: Use advanced search. Limit the search to “website list“. Enter Isherwood under author and search.
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