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Welcome to the LibGuide for the First Year Seminar:

Stranger Things

This guide is meant to help you develop the skills and tools to accomplish your course objectives:

To reflect on significant questions about yourself, your community, and your world.
To develop the capacity to read and think critically.
To develop the capacity to write clear and persuasive expository and argumentative essays with an emphasis on thesis formation and development.
To gain an understanding of basic principles of oral communication as they apply to classroom discussion.
To understand the liberal arts as a vital and evolving tradition and to see yourself as agents within that tradition.
To develop capacities for careful and open reflection on questions of values and norms.
To develop the ability to carry out research for the purpose of inquiry and to support claims.

The library (and your librarian) are here to help you! Use us early and often!

Books available from the Butler Libraries:

Required Texts in the Public Domain or Available on the Web

F. Paul Wilson, "Soft" 1984
Published in "Nightmare Magazine" Nov. 2015 (Issue 38) | Originally published in MASQUES, edited by J.N. Williamson. Reprinted online by permission of the author.

The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
Call Number: PUBLIC DOMAIN
Publication Date: 1921
The URL goes to a wikisource copy of this text. There is also a copy at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/TheCompleteWorksOfHPLovecraft_201412) and fadedpage.com (https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20190945)
The Horror at Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft
Call Number: PUBLIC DOMAIN
Publication Date: 1927
The URL goes to a wikisource copy of this text. There is also a copy at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/TheHorrorAtRedHook) and fadedpage.com (https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20190935)

Helpful Databases:

Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Search this database first to find most of your assigned films available for streaming!
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to full-text academic electronic journals in various disciplines including economics and finance, political science, history, literature, anthropology, mathematics, sociology, statistics, and education.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.