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Finding Background Information about World Literature

Credo Reference
Background information from many different subject encyclopedias and dictionaries comprise the Credo Reference series. Credo also provides direct links to other library resources.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that creates and maintains an archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high- resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines, including ecology, economics, history, language, literature, mathematics and sociology.
Literary Reference Source Plus
Definitive literary database covering all genres and timeframes. It includes thousands of full-text poems, short stories, synopses, critical essays, literary journals, reference books and author biographies.

If you are not assigned a topic by your instructor, you may have to come up with one of your own

To come up with a topic:

You may want to look at journal articles in the JSCC Library electronic databases to see what topics might be interesting
You may want to browse on the Internet to see interesting topics.
You may want to discuss possible topics with your teacher.
You may want to look in some of the electronic reference sources for background information.