Locating Literary Criticism
Eng 370
Electronic Databases/Journal Articles
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MLA (Ebscohost) -
Modern Language Association - journal articles,
chapters from books, and dissertations. Coverage
from 1926 to present (dates of coverage vary
according to journal title). If limiting to full
text, be sure to include the JSTOR and PROJECT MUSE
buttons. WARNING: If you limit to full text only,
you will not be able to retrieve results that
include chapters from books or books.
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Literature
Resource Center – A “hybrid”
database that includes biographical,
bibliographical, and contextual content. Includes
full text journal articles as well as essays from
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Shakespeare Criticism, Children’s Literature Review,
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama
Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400
to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism,
Literature of Developing Nations for Students,
Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students,
Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean
Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story
Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
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JSTOR - database of
scholarly journals – provides archival coverage from
the first issue of the journal until about 5 years
ago.
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Project
Muse - database of scholarly journals -
coverage is from about 5 years ago to present.
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Academic Search Premier (Ebscohost)
- multidisciplinary - journal articles.
Dates of coverage vary according to title. Much
duplication from the MLA database, but would include
more reviews of books.
Books
Use
MICAL (MC’s online catalog for books,
audiovisual materials, and journal titles). Use the
word search to locate materials about an author.
Be creative!
Reference Room - selected sources - many of these are
selectively covered in Literature Resource Center
database
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American
Drama Criticism
016.812 Am35 R
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American
Writers
810.9 Am35u R
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Beachem=s
Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction
809.3 B353 R
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Book Review
Index
and Book
Review Digest Index Section
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British
Writers
820.9 B777s R
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Critical
Survey of Drama
822.09 C869 R
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Critical
Survey of Literary Theory
801.9503 En19r R
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Critical
Survey of Long Fiction
809.3 C869ef 2000 R
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Critical
Survey of Poetry
821.09 C869 R
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Critical
Survey of Short Fiction 809.31 C869 2001 R
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
Various call numbers - included in
Literature Resource Center
database
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Dramatic
Criticism Index
016.8092 B745d R
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Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism
801.9503 En19 R
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Encyclopedia of World Drama
809.2 M178 1984 R
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Guide to
American Poetry Explication
016.811
G941 R
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Guide to
British Poetry Explication
016.821 M366 R
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A Guide to
Critical Reviews
(screenplay, foreign drama, musicals)
016.8092 Sa32g R
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Magill=s
Bibliography of Literary Criticism
016.8 M272m R
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Poetry
Explication 016.821 K963p 1980 R
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Twentieth Century Short Story Explication
016.80883 W154t R
Selected Internet Resources
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Leland Speed Library Subject Guides -
English & Literature
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http://www.mc.edu/campus/library/subeng.htm
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INFOMINE: Scholarly
Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
A
multi-disciplined, annotated directory of tens of
thousands of links to "university level research and
educational tools on the Internet." Includes
"databases, electronic journals, electronic books,
bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card
catalogs, articles ... [and] other types of
information." Tens of thousands of records, some
created by librarians, others generated by
robot-crawlers. Searchable and browsable. From the
University of California, Riverside.
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Internet Public Library Online
Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
One of the few general sites devoted to literary
criticism. Coverage is most extensive for English
language authors. Maintained by the University of
Michigan. Access by author, title, country and
period.
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Literary Resources on the
Internet
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Created and maintained by
Jack Lynch of Rutgers University. Covers all areas
of literature from medieval to American.
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Mississippi Writers Page
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/
A page from the English Department at the University
of Mississippi with an enormous amount of
information on Mississippi literature and writers.
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ORB: The Online Reference Book
for Medieval Studies
http://the-orb.net
ORB is sponsored by a large number of medieval
scholars and professors from the U.S., Canada, and
England. The site includes an encyclopedia, a
textbook library, e-texts, and links to other web
sites.
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Voice
of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Humanities source with links to Literature and Literary Theory,
maintained by Alan Liu at University of
California-Santa Barbara.
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Women and Gender Studies:
Literature and Culture Web Sites
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html
Links to full text (British Women Romantic Poets, African-American
Women Writers of the 19th Century, among others),
criticism, bibliographies, and electronic magazines.
By the Women's Studies Section of the Association of
College and Research Libraries.
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