4.02.2012

Literature Databases - or - How To Sound Smart

Winchester residents, and anyone who comes to the library, have access to a few really great literature databases.

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Bloom's Literary Reference Online
  • Books and Authors
  • LitFinder

CLC Select and Lit. Resource Center can be a lot of fun and you can get in way over your head real quick. Some example articles from CLC and LRC:

  • "Being Martian: spatiotemporal self in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles"
  • "The Thematic Structure of 'The Martian Chronicles'"
  • "The Body Eclectic: Sources of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles"
  • "The Frontier Myth in Ray Bradbury"
  • "Entering the Space Frontier: Quests Mundane, Profane, and Divine"
 
From "Being Martian..." regarding past present and future and how all 3 combine to form subjective experience:

"Perception of a melody demands, first, that there be present a "primal impression" which constitutes the tonal now, that is, the immediately sounding tone of the melody. Secondly, there is at the same time as the perceived tone, an existing peripheral tonal experience active in the constituted conscious act of perceived tonal now. This "fresh" or "primary memory" which holds near to the perceiving now the just-past tone in consciousness is known as retention. As such "when the tonal now, the primal impression, passes over into retention, this retention is itself again a now, an actual existent. While it itself is an actual (but not an actual sound), it is the retention of a sound that has been" 


-LB
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