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Literary Criticism Resources:

 

Short Path to the Resources :

 

1. Go to Library Website---Databases---Galenet.

 

2. Choose Gale Net---title search:  your title- for example:  Tell Tale Heart [choose-match all words exactly as entered] & author’s last name on author line- for example: Poe.
 

3. Review the Results---check against the handout of Gale Literary Criticism titles for print books that we own and then use Literature Resource Center (described in #4).

 

4. Before going to shelf to find those titles, open database---Literature Resource Center  [Your results may provide articles & essays of literary criticism from the Gale Criticism books; these criticial essays are compiled from other books, journals and biography, etc.]---Now-don't forget to check THE WALL for additional essays that are not included in the online format.
Remember: Print volumes have thematic indexes, which you can search manually!
 
 Also, make note of titles from Gale Literary Criticism series which are starred. The full-text of these are available at the Gale Virtual Reference Center. 
5. Try a few of our other databases-  EBSCOhost & additional Literary Reference Center (requires username/password in school & at home)databases, POWER Library OmniFile ProQuest Online & eLibrary for more articles, including reviews, commentaries. Use these from school or from home.  Check with your librarians for @ home usernames & passwords.

Remember: Online resources allow for advance searches, which allow you to search keywords related to your theme, topic, hypothesis, question!

 6. Open the North Library Catalog and use the title or the author's last name and the word critic*in a power search. You may find nonfiction (print)books with a group of essays that will be a useful resource. Try  eBooks from EBSCO[formerly netLibrary]for nonfiction (online-ebooks) with essays.
 
7. Choose Biography Resource Center to locate information on your author.

 

* Hint-- Use advanced search, search for full-text, try various keywords, scan items before downloading, emailing or printing & don't forget to review indexes and TOC of select critical essay books found in the 800s section of the library.

 

Printing Advice: click special icon on each database for printing

 

@Home Access: through Citrix or use database sheets with passwords-available from Library Staff

 

MLA7 Examples: See our link on the Library Citation Weblink 
Citation Samples from MLA7
 
#1
Hurt, Matthew. "Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Explicator 64.1
 
     (2005): 41+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Oct. 2010.
 
 
#2

Parks, John G. “The Possibility of Evil: A Key to Shirley Jackson’s Fiction.”

 

            Studies in Short Fiction. 15.3 (1978). Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed.

 

            Thomas Votteler. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale, 1992. 256-258. Print.
 
 
#3

Hall, Joan Wylie.  "The Uncollected Stories: Seeking the Self.”  Shirley Jackson: A

 

            Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1993.  75-90. Print.

 
 

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