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💡 Make Sure to Review the HJF Research Guides. This will get you started in using the HJF resources, basic research skills, and some more advanced tips & tricks that will save you time and make your research more effective.
The HJF has a large selection of books & eBooks regarding this topic. A very short list has been assembled to provide some direction to those that seek a starting point. This is not even close to an exhaustive list. Take note of the various subject terms for each title and use those to find additional titles regarding the same topics. A small list of suggested subject terms is provided below as well.
📚 A Short List of Books & eBooks
💡 How do I search for a book in the library's catalog?
Suggested Subject Terms
💡 Remember, you can use a mix of terms when searching. For example, subject terms for World War I or Authors, American can be used in combination with a keyword such as "Hemingway" or "Ernest Hemingway". The search results would then be books about the subject of World War I and contain the keyword "Ernest Hemingway". If you'd like more help on using subject terms and advanced search techniques, check out our help guide on advanced searching.
⚠️ Don't forget to properly cite your sources! Check out our citation guides for APA, MLA, Chicago and CSE.
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Recommended Databases
“JSTOR includes journal content, primary sources, images, and more across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences” (JSTOR 2011). Although most content found here is full-text, researchers may also find links to articles that are not available online through Morningside. The HJF Library provides access through JSTOR to 15 Arts & Sciences Collections and 1 Life Science Collection.
💻 MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
“Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals and series, as well as book publishers. MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography" (EBSCOhost 2019).
💡 MLA International Bibliography Help Guide
⚠️ You are always responsible for evaluating your own sources, including websites. If you're not sure, check out our Help Guide on Evaluating Sources.
🌐 The Ernest Hemingway Collection
The Ernest Hemingway Personal Papers includes donations to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library by Mary Welsh Hemingway (his widow) and additional donors over several decades. The collection spans Hemingway's entire career, and contains ninety percent of known Hemingway manuscript materials, making the Library the world's principal center for research on the life and work of this author. Be sure to browse the Hemingway media galleries to see hundreds of photographs of Hemingway over the course of his life and to hear him reading from his Nobel Prize speech!
🌐 Oak Park Public Library Special Collections
The library has acquired first editions, correspondence, and high school essays. See part of the collection online as part of The Early Years: Ernest and Marcelline Hemingway in Oak Park through the Illinois Digital Archives.
Search the LOC to find images, videos and writing of Ernest Hemingway.
The Hemingway Society focuses on “the promotion, assistance and coordination of scholarship and studies relating to the works and life of the late Ernest Hemingway.”
"Ernest Hemingway's Birthplace Museum is nestled just west of downtown Chicago in Oak Park, Illinois. This is the ideal place to begin exploring the roots of the author's life and work. It is here that Ernest Hemingway was born in a second floor bedroom on July 21, 1899. This Queen Anne home was built in 1890 by his maternal grandparents and was the first home in Oak Park to have electricity. The famed Pulitzer Prize winning author spent the first six years of his life at what is now 339 N. Oak Park Ave. The restoration, which began in 1992, authentically returned the house to its 1890s’ Victorian heritage; ensuring that your experience of the furnishings and stories told reflect the young man who lived there."
"The Finca Vigía Foundation’s mission is to provide the research and technical assistance necessary to restore and preserve Ernest Hemingway’s home and its contents at Finca Vigía in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba."
🌐 Ernest Hemingway & Art at The MET
An essay on Ernest Hemingway's development in relation to art and philosophy.
This course incorporates a lot of literary criticism and theory. This brief section will provide some background on these concepts as well as some suggestions on finding sources related.
What is Literary Criticism?
Literary criticism is the term given to studies that define, classify, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of literature. There are many types of literary criticism: some examples include historical criticism, textual criticism, feminist criticism, and formalist criticism. Literary criticism may examine a particular literary work or it may look at an author's writings as a whole.
Finding Literary Criticism
The best option is using the databases listed above. Combine terms such as "literary criticism" or "literary theory" with your author's name or the title of the work. You can also try searching for authors or titles with a specific theory, such as feminism.
There can be some challenges in researching theory or criticism. Sometimes there just is not much written about an author or work, especially if they are a contemporary author or a woman or minority author. If you are struggling to find sources, make sure to contact a librarian or talk to your instructor. Also make sure to check out our Gale Literary Criticism reference collection. We have Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and Contemporary Literary Criticisms, among others. These are huge sets of books that reference works and authors and the criticisms written about them. They can be difficult to use if you have never used them before, so don't hesitate to ask a librarian for help.
The following documents are annotated bibliographies created by other students who have taken this course. They are here to provide examples as well as sources you can use in your own research.
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📄 An Unfinished Goodbye: A Moveable Feast as Suicide Letter by Rachel Bonnichsen
📄 Soldiers Without War: Santiago's Soldier-like Life in The Old Man and the Sea by Kit Stallmann