Locating Literary Criticism
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Electronic Databases/Journal Articles 

• 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.

•  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.

• JSTOR - database of scholarly journals – provides archival coverage from the first issue of the journal until about 5 years ago. 

•  Project Muse - database of scholarly journals - coverage is from about 5 years ago to present.

• 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

• American Drama Criticism   016.812 Am35 R

• American Writers    810.9 Am35u R

• Beachem=s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction   809.3 B353 R

• Book Review Index and Book Review Digest   Index Section

• British Writers   820.9 B777s R

• Critical Survey of Drama     822.09 C869 R

• Critical Survey of Literary Theory     801.9503 En19r R

• Critical Survey of Long Fiction   809.3 C869ef 2000 R

• Critical Survey of Poetry    821.09 C869 R

• Critical Survey of Short Fiction   809.31 C869 2001 R

• Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)   Various call numbers - included in Literature Resource Center database

• Dramatic Criticism Index   016.8092  B745d   R  

• Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism   801.9503 En19   R

• Encyclopedia of World Drama   809.2 M178 1984 R

• Guide to American Poetry Explication  016.811 G941  R

• Guide to British Poetry Explication  016.821 M366 R

• A Guide to Critical Reviews (screenplay, foreign drama, musicals)
            016.8092 Sa32g  R 

• Magill=s Bibliography of Literary Criticism   016.8   M272m R

• Poetry Explication   016.821 K963p 1980  R

• Twentieth Century Short Story Explication   016.80883 W154t R

Selected Internet Resources

• Leland Speed Library Subject Guides - English & Literature - http://www.mc.edu/campus/library/subeng.htm

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

•  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.

• 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.