Print Resources ~ Physical and digital books prepared by subject-area experts presenting primary and secondary source information as well as statistics, images, facts, and/or narrative.

• Literary Criticism will be located throughout the 800s and may be searched by author or title in the Online Catalog.
• Literary Criticism in the Reference collections include:
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • Literature and Its Times
  • Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
  • Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
• To search for criticism within the Reference collections, follow these directions:
  • Select Literature Resources from Gale on the Databases page.
  • Select Gale Literary Index.
  • Search by author or title.

~ eBooks in Literary Criticism from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Databases ~ Special collections of information prepared by subject-area experts available digitally in a variety of formats. Invisible to search engines such as Google.

• Example search: enter "Brave New World" and "criticism" in two separate search boxes
• Change "Select a Field" to "SU Subject Terms"
• Click search or hit enter and select articles.

• Example search: enter "Huckleberry Finn" and criticism in the search box
• Change search type from natural language to Boolean operator and click search or hit enter.

~ Literary criticism, biographies, book reviews, and full-text poetry, short stories, speeches, plays and other forms of literature. The combined resources of Literature Resource Center and LitFinder in one interface.

• Click Advanced Search
• Enter To Kill a Mockingbird in a search box and change the drop-down menu to Title-Exact Match
• Select Critical Essay in the Document Type menu
• Click search or hit enter; select essays.

Example search:

• Enter Nineteen eighty-four (book) in the subject headings search box and click search.
• Click on the hyperlinked subject Nineteen eighty-four (book) and select article.

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