Research and Bibliography; Course Fall, 1999; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS in English Studies
The Journals We've Found Useful


Jessie Chiu, Julie Cheng, Grace Wen, Ethan Lin,
Ally Chang, Lily Huang, Hosanna Chang, Buck Lee
  • General
  • English Literature
  • American Literature
    		•  Regional Literature
    General
     
    1. Contemporary Literature

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      Publishes articles, interviews, reviews, and occasional special issues on post-World War II literature, with an emphasis on British and American topics.

      --Literature Research Guide 
      Every month, there is an interview with a writer. In this way, the readers can have a closer understanding about the interviewed writer and his or her motives about his or her works. It is available in NTU.
      --Grace
    2. Modern Fiction Studies

      3. As its editorial policy indicates, the articles, notes and reviews stress "historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to modern and contemporary narrative."
      --Literary Research Guide
      It is a quarterly journal, which has some specific focus in each volume. It is very useful for the readers interested in the modern fictions. It also introduces the trends of the modern fiction very well.
      --Grace
    3. Nineteenth-Century Literature

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      Publishes articles, notes, occasional special issues, and reviews chiefly on British and American works.

      --Literature Research Guide
      Unlike other journals that I found in the library, this journal provides abstracts of the articles and reviews. The reviews in this journal are both reviews of the work on nineteenth century authors and of the previous published essays.
      --Ethan
    4. Modern Drama

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      . . . articles, reviews, frequent special issues, and occasional bibliographies on North American and European drama from 1850 to the present.

      --Literature Research Guide
      It mainly focuses on the drama and its performance on stage and is related to the literary theory in the modern drama.
      --Buck
    5. Mosaic
    Mosaic is a journal for interdisciplinary study of literature. It has one certain theme for the monthly discussion. Literary works from Britain, America, Canada and other nations or regions all contribute to the topic discussion.
    --Jessie
     6. Studies in the Novel
    Emphasizes studies of individual post-1800 English and American novels, with less attention to theory.
    --Literature Research Guide
         One particular thing of this journal is the essay-reviews including in it. Therefore, we might see a review not only on works but also on the essay reviews.
    --Ethan
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         7. Studies in Short Fiction
    Although Studies in Short Fiction is international in scope, the articles, notes, and brief reviews emphasize British and American works since 1800.
    --Literature Research Guide
         The volume in 1995 spring and summer focus on the relationship between contemporary short fiction and the postmodern condition, paradox of origin, word and music and so on.
    --Julie
         8. Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal
    Publishes articles, bibliographies, and numerous special issues, primarily on British and American authors.
    --Literature Research Guide
         The volume in 1997 is concerned about depression, search for supreme, history, biography, narrative, history, challenge and response, postmodern evolutionary theory and so on.
    --Julie
         9. World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma
    Publishes articles, frequent special issues, and numerous reviews on recent literary works in all the major and many minor languages of the world.
    --Literature Research Guide
         Like the preceding periodicals, it has the specific issue for debate.
    --Jessie
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    English Literature
      
    1. English. 1936- . 3/yr.

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      Since vol.25 (1976), English emphasizes major British writers and works in articles and critical studies in reviews.  Annual index since vol. 39 (1990) and in some volumes before vol.25 (1976).
       
    2. English Studies

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      Publishes articles, notes, occasional surveys of recent research on an author, and reviews primarily on English language and literature.

      --Literature Research Guide
      This journal covers literary periods in the territory of English literature from old English writing to Modern English. Essays in this journal cover many different kinds of issues presented through writing techniques.
      --Ally
    3. Notes and Queries: For Readers and Writers, Collectors and Librarians (N&Q). 1849- . Quarterly. http://www.oup.co.uk/notesj
      4. Publishes notes, queries, replies, and reviews on "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism."
      --Literature Research Guide
       
    4. Review of English Studies: A Quarterly Journal of English Literature and the English Language (RES). 1925- . Quarterly. http://www.oup.co.uk/revesj.
      • Publishes articles, notes and reviews on all aspects of English literature and language.  Recent issues tend to be divided fairly evenly between articles and reviews.
        • --Literature Research Guide
    5. Studies in English Literature., 1500-1900 (SEL). 1960- . Quarterly.
      • "Publishes historical and critical essays and surveys of recent studies, with the Winter issue devoted to the English Renaissance, the Spring issue to Tudor and Stuart drama, the Summer issue to the Restoration and eighteenth century, and the Autumn issue to the nineteenth century."
        • --Literature Research Guide
    6. Studies in Philology (SP). 1906- . Quarterly. 
        7. "Since vol.85 (1988), SP published articles on British literature before 1900.  Earlier volumes encompass classical through modern literature, with a decided emphasis on the Middle Ages and Renaissance."
        --Literature Research Guide
    7. English Literary Renaissance

      8. Publishes essays, edited texts, surveys of research, and occasional special issues on literature from 1485 to 1674.
      --Literature Research Guide
      ELR collects literary critical articles, which are concerning literary works in the Renaissance mostly. There are still a few essays written about literary works before or after the Renaissance, but rarely.
      --Ally
    8. Renaissance
    A critical and scholarly journal is published by Marquette University as a Christian witness to literature for promoting the study of values in literature.
    --The jacket of Renaissance
    The volume in 1998 is the fifth anniversary edition. It looks back to articles that published in the previous volumes and selects some as the content for this volume. The focus is on moral order, Christianity, poetics and so on. Most topics are related to Christianity.
    --Julie
    Very similar to ELR, most essays in Renaissance are about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. However, this journal unlike ELR collects more essays discussing about culture, ethic, Christianity, Roman Catholic, identity, subjectivity and objectivity, and writing style.--Ally
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    American Literature
     
    General
    1. American Literary Study

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      It is a journal published semi-annually by the Pennsylvania State University Press. The articles included in the journal are mainly discussing the classical literary works. The resources are divided into two parts. The first part is Articles, and the second part is the Book Reviews. Therefore, this journal provides a more specific way in dealing with a particular book rather than one of the notions extracted from the book.

      --Ethan
    2. American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography

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      Publishes articles, notes, and reviews on all aspects pf American literature.

      --Literature Research Guide
      Duke University Press publishes it four times a year, in January, March, May and November. Each issue is divided into two parts: critical essays and book reviews.
      --Lily
      It includes many articles, reviews and critical essays concerning American literature. No index page in the back of this journal.
      --Hosanna
    3. The Journal of American Drama and Theatre

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      This journal discusses researches on American playwrights, plays, and theatre, and a more enlightened understanding of American literary and theatrical heritage. It is published three times a year.

      --Hosanna
    4. Resources for American Literary Study
    Publishes bibliographies, surveys of research, evaluations of needed research on authors and topics, catalogs of collections, supplements to published bibliographies, edited letters and documents, and reviews and review essays on reference works and scholarly editions.
    --Literature Research Guide
    They are incomplete in Fu Jen Library. There are only three volumes, 1984, 1994, and 1996-97. The content arrangement is different since 1994. The contents include prospects, articles, review-essays, and book reviews. Usually there are four prospects a year.
    --Lily
    Each article includes the works cited. This journal also deals with book reviews with subscribing fee.
    --Hosanna
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    *Regional Literature
        1. The Mississippi Quarterly

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          Publishes articles, notes, surveys of research, bibliographies, special issues, reviews, and review essays on the humanities and social sciences in the South.

      --Literature Research Guide
          It contains no index.
      --Hosanna
        1. Western American Literature (Western American Literature Association website, including journal's tables of content.)
    Publishes articles, occasional bibliographies, notes, interviews, essay reviews, and reviews (of both primary and secondary works) relating to western literature.
    --Literary Research Guide
    This journal is a quarterly journal of the Western Literature Association. Each quarterly journal has its own special issue. It only can be found in NTU Library.
    --Grace
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    Canadian Literature
        1. ECW (Essays on Canadian Writing)  Web Site
    Publishes articles, bibliographies, interviews, and reviews.
    --Literature Research Guide
    Its criticism and review aims at the study of Canadian Literature. The essays in EWC focus on a problem or an issue of interest.
    --Jessie
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    Literature-Related Sources
       
    1. Literature and Psychology

      2. Publishes articles that apply depth psychology or "post-structuralist forms of psychoanalysis to theory, literature, or form."
      --Literature Research Guide
      This journal contains articles, reviews, notes, and comments.
      --Hosanna
    2. Religion and Literature
    Publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of literature and religion, especially Christianity.
    --Literature Research Guide
    In the publication from 1996 to 1997, identity and politics are mainly focuses. For example, issues of self, Christian identity, literary culture, power, public sphere, etc, can be searched in these two years essays.
    --Ally
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