Recommended Literature Periodical Indexes
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Indexes 4,400 journals in literature and linguistics.
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- Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window Journals, books, and other publications in all aspects of the humanities worldwide.
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Print & Electronic Reference Tools
- Introduction to contemporary Japanese literature, 1956-1970; synopses of major worksCall Number: KEN Ref PL740.6 .K6 1972
- Japanese women writers : a bio-critical sourcebookCall Number: KEN Ref PL725 .J37 1994
- Medieval Japanese writersCall Number: KEN Ref PL726.3 .M43 1999
- Modern Japanese literature in translation: a bibliographyCall Number: KEN Ref PL726.55 .K66 1979 (dated, but still useful for literature from 1868-1975)
- Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese LiteraturePL726.1.M495 1985
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
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Full text collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference resources. - Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
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Compilation of literary criticism. - Literary Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
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6,000 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. - Literary Reference Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Author biographies, literary criticism, plot summaries, etc. - Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
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280 dictionaries and encyclopedias covering a variety of subjects.
Women Authors
- Changing lives : the "postwar" in Japanese women's autobiographies and memoirs/ Ronald P. LoftusCall Number: KEN HQ1762 .L64 2013
- Modern Murasaki writing by women of Meiji JapanElectronic Resource
- The other women's lib: gender and body in Japanese women's fictionElectronic Resource.
- Rabbits, crabs, etc. : stories by Japanese womenCall Number: KEN Main PL782.E8 R3 1982
- Stories by contemporary Japanese women writersCall Number: KEN Main PL782.E8 S8 1982
- This perversion called love reading Tanizaki, feminist theory, and FreudElectronic Resource
- Unmapped territories: new women's fiction from JapanCall Number: KEN Main PL782.E8 U5 1991
Examples of Library of Congress Subject Headings
Materials linked to the subject headings below are for only Kenyon titles. Many more titles are available through a full CONSORT and/or OhioLINK search catalogs.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan
Feminist literary criticism -- Japan
Haiku -- Translations into English
Japanese fiction -- Women authors
Japanese poetry
Japanese poetry -- Women authors -- Translations into English
History/Criticism of Graphic Novels, Manga & Anime
- Adult manga/ Sharon KinsellaCall Number: PN6790.J3 K56 2000
Bibliography emphasizes English language materials. - Beautiful fighting girlElectronic resource
- Comics ArtCONSORT book
Leading author on comics culture includes a discussion of Japanese manga. - Japanamerica how Japanese pop culture has invaded the U.S.Electronic book
Chapters 3 & 9 specifically on anime. - Japanese animation : East Asian perspectivesCONSORT book
- Japanese animation : from painted scrolls to PokémonCONSORT book
Very good resource for anime film history. - Manga and philosophyCall Number: PN6790.J3 M36 2010
- Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan/ Adam L. KernCall Number: PL747.4 .K46 2006
- Manga : sixty years of Japanese comicsConsort Resource
- Manga's cultural crossroadsCall Number: NX180.G56 M36 2013
Graphic Novels
- Barefoot Gen : a cartoon story of Hiroshima/ Keiji NakazawaCall Number: D767.25.H6 N33 2004 v.1-7
- A distant neighborhood, volumes 1 & 2/ Jiro TaniguchiCONSORT Resource
- A drifting life/Yoshihiro TatsumiCONSORT Resource
- Monster Men : Bureiko Lullaby/ Takashi NemotoCONSORT Resource
- New engineering/ Yuichi YokoyamaCONSORT Resource
- One Piece, mutiple volumes / Oda EiichiroCONSORT Resource