Subject Guide » English Language and Literature
Literary Criticism
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This section is the primary place to search for literary criticism which does not appear in books. These sources list primarily journal articles (some of these index essays in books and one indexes dissertations) and are listed in approximate priority order, with the most frequently used indexes first. Their titles suggest the subjects they cover. Students may need to use more than one of these indexes to search for pertinent articles.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year.
Literature Online (LION) A searchable full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites.
Literature Criticism Online This database represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Children's Literature Review.
Literature Resource Center Full-text biographies, critical essays and reviews, poems, short stories and plays of more than 130,000 international authors. This database contains the full content of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and selections from Children's Literature Review, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and 11 other literary criticism series.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature A sometimes useful additional bibliography to search besides the MLA Bibliography for scholarship about English language and literature, but use the MLA first. Searching works best if you know the author's name and search by it rather than by subject matter. However, this resource also indexes research by broad subject, by chronological period, and by scholars' names.
Print: Z 2011 .M69 (1920-date)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
PS221.D5 (Ref) 1978-present
Now available online, the print consists of hundreds of volumes, each covering a distinct literary period, genre, or theme, with extensive essays, frequently illustrated with images of the author and his/her works, which link biography with interpretations of the literary work. Included are literary authors, journalists, historians, screenwriters, scholars, critics, and publishers. Though international is scope, emphasis is on those authors writing in English. Some authors appear in more than one volume. Use the online index or the index in the latest published volume to find all the previous volumes.
Excerpts from Literary Criticism
Each of these sets of books carefully excerpts key passages of literary criticism published in books, journals, magazines, and other sources. The Libraries may own the original publication from which the excerpt is selected and which you may want to consult. Use the most recent volume as an index to the whole set to locate the volume or volumes that may have commentary on the author or work of interest.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
PN 771 .C59 (Ref) 1973-present
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
PN 771 .T85x (Ref) 1978-present
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
PN 761 .N5 (Ref) 1981-present
Internet Public Library - Literature - CriticismLinks to free literary criticism websites chosen by librarians.
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