Use these library databases to find literary criticism on your chosen text to incorporate into your critical essay.
Contains plot summaries, author biographies, literary criticism essays, and book reviews. Combines research from major reference works, books, and literary journals. Also includes full-text of classic novels, short stories, and poems.
Contains plot summaries, author biographies, literary criticism essays, and book reviews. Similar to Literary Reference Center but also includes content on plays/drama, children's literature, fantasy, science fiction, religious literature, and contemporary literature.
Contains research on all aspects of literature and languages. Source types include articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Subjects covered include literary criticism, literary theory, modern languages, linguistics, rhetoric, drama, film, folklore, radio, and television. It covers literature from all over the world.
Provides digitized scans of American magazines, journals, and newspapers from colonial days to early 20th century.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive of over one thousand leading academic journals from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Search your author's name, or the title of one of their works, then limit results to Literary Criticism source type.
These databases don't provide the option to limit Source Type specifically to Literary Criticism. Instead, search the title of your work with phrases like "criticism", "literary criticism", "analysis", "literary analysis", etc.
Search CU Books for the title of your work, then add the keyword criticism or critical. You'll see relevant results:
To find more literary criticism, try searching your author's name as a SUBJECT. Look for subject headings that mention criticism and interpretation.
