sdst.org - LITERARY CRITICISM LINKS

Pathfinder for Literary Criticism

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The following are reference tools you will find useful in any literary research. Choose the ones that make the most sense for your particular research problem and examine their tables of contents and indexes. 

• Why is literary criticism worth studying?  Read this article by Steven Hale, Georgia Perimeter College.
• Why analyze literature?  Read this article by Professor John Lye, Brock University, for tips and rationale.
• Our handout on What is Literary Criticism?
• For book reviews (these are not considered sources of literary criticism)

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DATABASES ROCK for Lit Crit and Literary Biography!

• Bloom's Literary Reference Online
• Literature Resource Center  (full-text criticism, overviews, biography)
• Literary Reference Center (full-text criticism, overviews, biography, reviews, author interviews--Ask Mrs. V. for password)
• Scribner's Writers Series (lengthy biography and criticism of major authors)

• JSTOR (for academic archival articles and criticism)

• Poetry for Students

• Novels for Students

• Gale's Literary Index  (index to many of our reference books)

• Greenwood Critical Companions (for contemporary authors)
• ProQuest Learning: Literature
• Student Resource Center Gold
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• netLibrary (ACCESS PA) offers access to hundreds of e-books containing critical essays!
• Alexandria patron catalog We have many books of collected criticism that you may borrow located in the 800s!
• NoveList in the ACCESS PA POWER LIBRARY
• Biography Resource Center 
• Biography Reference Bank (select More Information for critical articles, interviews, and reviews.)

Using these databases at home?  Get the password list from Mrs. V.

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Book Reviews (don't forget our magazine indexes!)

• New York Times Books  http://www.nytimes.com/books/ (Sign up for a free subscription or use the library user name: sthslib password: 12345)

• ProQuest Historical Newspaers http://hn.bigchalk.com/hnweb/hn/do/search

• Amazon.com Book Search (use Editorial Reviews) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/catalog-searching.html 

• Book Index with Reviews (in ACCESS PA)

• NoveList in the ACCESS PA POWER LIBRARY

• Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com
• Booklist http://www.ala.org/booklist/
• Bookspot http://bookspot.com/reviews/
• Classic Review Index http://www.TheAtlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/classrev/crindex.htm
• English Server Fiction: Criticism http://eserver.org/fiction/crit.html
• Great Books Index http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
• Internet Resources in English Language and Literature http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/subj/english/englit.html
• New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html
• Washington Post: Chapter One http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/chapone.htm
• Also visit Catalogs and Databases and use EBSCOhost, Student Resources Center, General Reference Center (GaleNet), or elibrary to get reviews from magazines and newspapers.

For older titles, use Book Review Digest and Readers' Guide in the stacks. Search in the volume covering the copyright date of your book.

Literary Criticism on the free Web (Please evaluate these resources!)

• *GALE's Literary Index http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

  ***A quick index to our many print literary criticism series!!! Try it!***

• *Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
• Literary History http://www.literaryhistory.com An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular
• Literature and Literary Criticism http://www.stcc.cc.tx.us/main/litsearch.html
• Literary Index http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html
• Literary Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
• LitLinks http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature--A Research and Reference Guide http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
• American Collection http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/americanwritinggateway.htm
• Literary Movements http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html
• SchoolWork.org Literary Criticism and Biography http://www.schoolwork.org/books.html

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