Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
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SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Sylvia Plath.

DATABASE
SEARCH TERMS
RESULTS
Academic Search Premier

sylvia plath

Perform the basic search.

Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."

Provides a number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collection

sylvia plath

JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).

Provides a small number of items, half of which are reviews.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online

plath, sylvia

Perform the default search.

Provides a large number of citations.
Contemporary Authors

sylvia plath

Perform the default search.

Provides a profile of the author's life and works. Includes an extensive list for further reading about the author.
Encyclopedia Britannica

sylvia plath

Perform the default search.

Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a couple of Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP

sylvia plath

Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication."

Provides a large number of worthy items.

Literature Resource Center

sylvia plath

Perform the default (author) search.

After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text).

Provides a small number of quality documents.
Research Library Complete

sylvia plath

Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library."

Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals."

Provides a good number of excellent items.
Scribner's


Select "Writers A-Z" and click on the Plath, Sylvia link.

Provides an essay about the author and her works, along with a bibliography and a supplement.
SIRS Renaissance

sylvia plath

Perform the "Quick Search."

Provides a number of excellent items.

Twayne Authors Series- Twayne World, English and US Authors


Select "Writers A-Z" and click on the Plath, Sylvia link.

Provides a number of quality items.


SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

  • The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
  • Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
  • eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.


    Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
    PS3566L27Z53 1975
    Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

    Chapters in a mythology: the poetry of Sylvia Plath
    PS3566L27Z75 1976
    Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

    Bitter fame: a life of Sylvia Plath
    PS3566L27Z9134 1989
    Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

    Sylvia Plath: the woman and the work
    PS3566L27Z92 1985
    Location: Dothan

    The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath
    PS3566 .L27 Z469 2000
    Location: Troy, AL

    The bell jar
    PS3566 .L27 B4 1996B
    Location: Phenix City

    Crossing the water: transitional poems
    PS3566 .L27 C7 1971B
    Location: Phenix City

    The colossus & other poems
    PS3566 .L27 C6 1962
    Location: Phenix City

    Ariel
    PS3566 .L27 A7 1966
    Location: Phenix City

    Revising life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems
    Location: eBook


    SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

  • Sylvia Plath
    http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0704

  • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/splath.htm

  • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/plath/plath.htm

  • Voices and Visions Spotlight Sylvia Plath
    http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/Plath.html

  • PAL: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/plath.html


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