Criticism

Print Sources
    Contemporary Literary Criticism,  Volume 76, pp. 229 - 238. 
     Call Number - Ref PN 81 .C6 v.76.

Online Sources  be sure and follow all the steps on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer

Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection
        Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres

Project Muse Articles
        The Lie of the Land: Heartland Novels by Smiley and Kinsella

New York Times Book Reviews (Use your BRCC login and password for access).

November 3, 1991 - King Lear in Zebulon County
October 31, 1991 - Books of The Times; On an Iowa Farm, a Tragedy With Echoes of Lear 

MLA International Bibliography - Try searching with the terms: thousand acres AND king lear.

Factiva - Try searching with: Jane Smiley and king lear OR choose Jane Smiley  and thousand acres. Full Text articles

Literature Resource Center - includes biography, lists of author's works, current journal articles on this author, criticism of author's works, internet resources on author, and overviews of her works.

JSTOR - BRCC now subscribes to all of JSTOR's modules, which includes the Language & Literature module, which will have articles prior to 1980.

Can't find the article you want full-text?  Try these two tactics:
1.  Type in the journal name in these two links:  VIVA Online Journal Locator and VCCS Online Journal Search  They will tell you which of our databases, if any, index that particular journal.  Maybe it will be full-text in a different database than you tried originally.
2.  Try typing the article title in Google.  Sometimes you can find it free on the author's home page or in an online journal.

Biographical Information 

Print Sources

Contemporary Authors, Volume 30 & 50
    Call Number - Ref Z 1224 . C58
Current Biography, April 1990 v51 n4 p49(4) (Shelved with Reference Books)
    Call Number - Ref CT 210 .C98 1990

Interviews

King Lear in Zebulon County; A THOUSAND ACRES By Jane Smiley. 371 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $23. By Ron Carlson. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Nov 3, 1991. p. BR12 (1 page)

Bookpage Interview with Jane Smiley Wired for Books: Audio Interview with Jane Smiley

Contemporary Authors, Volume 30 - (Interview in)
    Call Number - Ref Z 1224 . C58

The Web

Librarians' Index to the Internet (Lii.org) Recommended Subject Directory (see section on Literature)

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BRCC's Web Evaluation page

Internet Search Tools

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