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Subject Guides - Literary Criticism & Author Biography

Literary Criticism

examples:

• Jane Austen criticism (in keyword field)
  Retrieves books of criticism on the author's works

• William Shakespeare Hamlet (in keyword field)
  This search will retrieve books of criticism on the particular work. Use this search when the author is particularly prolific.

• Jane Austen bibliography (in keyword field)
  Retrieves bibliographies containing references to author criticism

• Start your search for literature criticism here. LRC contains Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.

A. Search the Gale Literary Index

• The master index to every literary series published by Gale. Allows you to search by author, title of work, author dates and nationality. Search results provide a list of the books within the Gale Series where the information may be found. See section B for call numbers.

B. Use the print literary series. The titles in the Gale Literary Series provide excerpts of criticism from magazines, scholarly journals and books. Use the last volume of any set for an author index to the entire series.

• Black Literature Criticism. REF PS153.N5B556
  Criticism of works of Black authors writing from 1960 - present.
  
  
• CLC (Contemporary Literary Criticism) REF PN94.C6
  Criticism of works of authors writing from 1960 - present.
  
  
• Critical Survey of Poetry. REF PR502.C85 1982
  Provides a comprehensive overview of English language poets and their works.
  
  
• NCLC (Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism) REF PN761.N5
  Criticism on authors who lived from 1800 - 1900.
  
  
• Poetry Criticism REF PN1010.P499
  Criticism of the most significant and widely studied world poets.
  
  
• Short Story Criticism. REF PN3373.S386
  Criticism on short stories from all times.
  
  
• TCLC (Twentieth Century Literature Criticism) REF PN94.T93
  Criticism on authors who lived from 1900 - 1960.

C. Citing Gale Literary Criticism Series

• MLA Stylesheet from Lee University

Article Indexes

• LION (Literature Online Complete)

  Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.

• Literature Resource Center

  Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.

• MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association - Ebsco)

  Indexes 4,000+ journals in the areas of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, rhetoric, dramatic arts, printing and publishing.

Author Biography

Examples:

• Jane Austen biography (in keyword field)
  Retrieves biographies and autobiographies of the author

• Indexes thousands of collective biographies.

• Provides full-text biographical information.

• Provides extensive biographical information on writers worldwide. The last volume of the set provides a cumulative index to the whole set.