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Literature

Literary study provides content knowledge of literature from various time periods and cultures while honing skills of self-expression and reasoning.

Catalogs

Online Catalogs

Search the online catalogs for: print and electronic books; streaming video and audio, DVD's and government documents. The Kent Library Catalog searches our collection. The MOBIUS Catalog searches other Missouri college and university library collections and allows you to request their physical materials be shipped our campus. 

Video Databases

Streaming Video Databases

Recommended streaming video databases.

Ebook Databases

Ebook Databases

Recommended ebook databases.

Subject Headings

Subject Headings

Every book in the library has been tagged with subject headings that describe broadly what it is about. When you find one book, you can use its subject heading(s) to find books on similar topics. Clicking on a hyperlinked subject heading in a catalog record will generate a result list of all titles owned by Kent Library that have been assigned that subject heading.

Call Numbers

Call Numbers

Currently, most of Kent Library's books are organized on the shelf by the Dewey Decimal System. Kent Library is in the process of converting library materials to Library of Congress (LC) call numbers. Until this conversion is complete, collections in all subjects will be housed in both Dewey and LC. Call numbers are assigned to represent a subject that describes what the book is about. As a result, books found in the catalog may be shelved next to books on similar topics. You can often find more sources by looking around on the shelf by the books you found using the catalog.

Listed below are call numbers for Literature in the LC classification scheme:

Library of Congress Call Numbers

  • PN Preface   Literature (General) (PDF, 1 p., 90 KB)
  • PN Outline   Literature (General) (PDF, 3 p., 93 KB)
  • PN Text   Literature (General) (PDF, 327 p., 686 KB)
  • PQ Preface   French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Literatures (PDF, 1 p., 89 KB)
  • PQ Outline   French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Literatures (PDF, 3 p., 96 KB)
  • PQ Text   French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Literatures (PDF, 459 p., 1.05 MB)
  • PR-PS, PZ Preface   English and American Literature. Juvenile Belles Lettres (PDF, 1 p., 90 KB)
  • PR-PS, PZ Outline   English and American Literature. Juvenile Belles Lettres (PDF, 3 p., 96 KB)
  • PR-PS, PZ Text   English and American Literature. Juvenile Belles Lettres (PDF, 462 p., 1.0 MB)
  • PT Preface   German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Literatures (PDF, 1 p., 89 KB)
  • PT Outline   German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Literatures (PDF, 5 p., 102 KB)
  • PT Text   German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Literatures (PDF, 381 p., 881 KB)