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Selected Literary Journals Available to the SDSU Community

The following table lists the titles of selected literary journals that are available to Briggs Library patrons.  Library call numbers are provided for those held in paper format in Briggs Library.  Links from the journal titles provide information about the dates/volumes available and Web links to electronic full-text (if available). 

Paper magazines and journals are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (call numbers).  Current volumes (usually the current year) are shelved by Dewey number on the main level of the library, and older volumes are shelved by Dewey number on the lower level.
Click here for a step-by-step guide to finding articles.

Use the library's Magazines and Journals List to determine whether the library holds (or provides electronic access to) specific journal titles that are not shown in the table below.  

Click on the title for access and holdings information

Journal Title

Call Number for Print Holdings

Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 809.935796 Ar342
African American Review  
Afro-Hispanic Review 860.80896 Af85
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics  
American Journal of Philology 405 Am35
American Literary History  
American Literary Realism 810.9004 Am35
American Literary Scholarship PS3.A55
American Literature 810.5 Am3
American Poetry Review  
American Short Fiction (1995-1998) 813.0108 Am35
American Speech 427.905 Am35
American Transcendental Quarterly (ATQ)  
ANQ 051 Am362
Applied Linguistics  
Applied Semiotics  
Arizona Quarterly  
Arthuriana 820.905 In7522
Asian Folklore Studies  
Australian Humanities Review  
Bloomsbury Review 028.105 B623
Book History  
Boundary 2  
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 028.505 C432
Callaloo 700.8996075 C13
Cambridge Quarterly  
Canadian Literature 810.5 C454
Canadian Modern Language Review 410.7 C35
Cather Studies PS3505.A87 Z592
Chaucer Review 820.905 C393
Chicago Review 051 C432
Children's Literature PN1009.A1 C44
Children's Literature Association Quarterly  
Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)  
Christianity & Literature 809.93382 C462
College Composition and Communication 805 C685
College English 805 C686
College Literature  809.89284 C683
Comparative Drama  
Comparative Literature 805 C738
Comparative Literature Studies 805.C739
Configurations  
Contemporary Literature 810.5 C767
Contemporary Review 052 C767 
CR: The New Centennial Review 051 C3322
Crazy Horse 811.05 C7
Critical Inquiry 700.9 C869
Criticism 805 C869
Critique 808.305 C869
Dalhousie Review 050 D158
Diacritics  
Dickens Studies Annual PR4579.D49
Early American Literature 810.5 Ea73
Early Modern Literary Studies  
Eighteenth Century Life 909.705 Ei44
ELH (English Literary History) 820.9 EL3
ELT Journal 428.705 En565
Emily Dickinson Journal  
English 805 En2
English Language Notes 420.5 En36
English Literary Renaissance 820.9002 En36
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 820.905 En36
English Studies 420.5 En38
Epoch 805 Ep61
L'Esprit createur 840.5 Es66
ESQ (Journal of the American Renaissance) 805 Em35
Essays in Criticism 804.05 Es73
etc.: a review of general semantics 149.905 Et1 and Et12
Etudes litteraires 840.905 Et81
European Romantic Review  
The Explicator 820.5 Ex9
Faulkner Journal  
Folklore  
Forum for Modern Language Studies  
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction  
French Review 440.5 F88
Georgia Review 051 G315
German Quarterly 430.705 G317
Greece & Rome 913.3305 G81
Hemingway Review  813.52 H37
The Henry James Review  
Heritage of the Great Plains 978.1005 H423
High Plains Literary Review (1995-2002) 810.7805 H537
Hispanic Review 460.5 H5 (1974-2002)
Horn Book Magazine 028.505 H78
Hudson Review 805 H86
Humanities Magazine  
Indian Literature 895.405 In2
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 808.305 In8
International Journal of American Linguistics 497.05 In8
International Journal of Applied Linguistics  
International Journal of Lexicography  
International Journal of the Classical Tradition  
The Iowa Review 810.5 Io84
JAC: Journal of Composition Theory 808.005 J8262
James Joyce Quarterly  
JEGP  
John Donne Journal 821.305 J613
Journal of American Folklore 398.05 J825  
Journal of Biblical Literature 220.05 J826
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 430.5 J82  
Journal of Modern Literature  
Journal of Narrative Theory 820.905 J8262
Journal of Popular Culture 405 J826
Journal of Semantics  
Joyce Studies Annual  
Keats-Shelley Journal PR4836.A145
Kenyon Review 051 K42
Korean Literature Today 895.705 K84
Language 405 L266
Language Learning 407 L269
Latin American Literary Review 860.905 L35
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers  
The Lion and the Unicorn  
Linguistic Inquiry  
Literary Imagination  
The Literary Review 805 L714
Literature and Medicine  
Literature and Psychology 801.9205 L71
Literature and Theology  
Literature Film Quarterly 791.4305 L712
Literature, Interpretation, Theory  
Literatur und Kritik 809.83105 L712
Litterature 840.5 L718
Massachusetts Review 051 M382
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England PR621.M65
Medium aevum 405 M469
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature)  808.9973 M496
Michigan Quarterly Review 051 M582
Midwest Poetry Review (1995-2002) 808.917705 M584
Milton Quarterly (1986-2000) 821.405 M642
Missouri Review  
MLN (Modern Language Notes) 405 M7
Modern Age 051 M72
Modern Drama 809.205 M72
Modern Fiction Studies 808.305 M72
Modern Language Journal 405 M72
Modern Language Quarterly 405 M73
Modern Language Review 405 M71
Modern Philology 405 M721 
Mosaic 809.05 M851
Nabokov Studies  
Narrative  
New England Review 808.8 N492
New Letters 051 Un31
New Literary History  801.95 N42
New York Review of Books 805 N42
Nineteenth-Century Contexts  
Nineteenth-Century Literature 823.805 N623
North American Review 051 N81
North Dakota Quarterly 378.784 N81.72
Notes and Queries 028.05 N844
Novel, A Forum on Fiction 808.305 N858
La Nouvelle revue francaise 840.5 N857
Oceanic Linguistics  
Oral Tradition  
Papers on Language and Literature 420.5 P197
Parnassus : Poetry in Review 809.105 P21
Pedagogy  
Philological Quarterly 405 P54
Philosophy and Literature  
PMLA. Publications of the Modern Language Association 406 M72
Poem 811.05 P752
Poetics Today   
Poetry 805 P752
Poetry Series (Quarterly Review of Literature) 805 Q29
Poets and Writers Magazine 810.905 P75
Prairie Schooner 051 P88
Prairie Winds (1981+) 811.5405 P885
Die Rampe (1995+) 830.99436 R146
Raritan 051 R365
Red Cedar Review  
Renaissance Quarterly 940.2105 R29
Renascence 805 R29
Representations  
Research in African Literatures  
Research in the Teaching of English 420.5 R311
Resources for American Literary Study (1999-2001)  
Review of Contemporary Fiction 809.305 R325
Review of English Studies 805 R32
Rhetoric Review  
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative  
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 405 R598 
Romance Quarterly Access via ProQuest
Romanticism on the Net  
Science-Fiction Studies 808.3876 Sc26
The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 820.5 Sc31
Seventeenth-Century News 820.4 Se82
Sewanee Review 051 Se86
The Shakespeare Newsletter 822.3305 S48
Shakespeare Quarterly 822.305 Sh15
Shakespeare Studies PR2885.S45
Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies  
Sirena: poesia, arte y critica  
South Atlantic Quarterly 051 So87
South Dakota Review 810.5 So87
Southern Literary Journal 810.9975 So88
Southern Review 051 So88
Southwest Review 051 So89
Speculum 901.9205 Sp31
Steinbeck Review  
Studia Linguistica  
Studies in American Fiction 813.05 St8
Studies in American Indian Literatures  
Studies in English Literature 805 St94
Studies in Philology 405 St94
Studies in Romanticism 805 St95
Studies in Short Fiction 808.305 St942 
Studies in the Literary Imagination 809.05 St94
Studies in the Novel 808.305 St94
Style 800 St53
symploke  
Symposium 405 Sy68
Syntax  
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 820.5 T313
Times Literary Supplement 805 T482
Transactions of the American Philological Association  
Tri-quarterly 810.5 T738
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 809.89287 T82 (1995-1999)
Twentieth Century Literature 809.05 T918
University of Toronto Quarterly 051 Un32
Verbatim 420.05 V582
Victorian Periodicals Review  
Victorian Poetry 821.705 V666
Victorian Studies 805 V666
Virginia Quarterly Review 051 V819
Western American Literature 810.5 W524
Western Folklore 398.05 W52
Western Humanities Review 979.205 W525
Words without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature  
World Literature Today (Various older issues in paper)
Writer 029.605 W939
Writer's Digest 805 W939
The Yale Journal of Criticism  
Yale Review 051 Y12 
Yellow Medicine Review 810.8 Y38
   
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