Literary Criticism and Analysis - Finding Secondary Sources

Databases and eBooks

x	(databases and ebooks) - Searches simultaneously: Literature Resource Center, Litfinder for Schools, and the entire Short Stories For Students series (ebooks). Use to find literary criticisms, author biographies, primary sources (the original story), and overviews of a story.
	(ebook) Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club
	(database) Search academic/scholarly journals for literary criticisms.

Print Books

Online Index to Print Books published by Gale

hint: This is an electronic index to many of our print literary criticism series including: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama for Students, Epics for Students, Literature and Its Times, Nonfiction Classics for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, Shakespeare for Students, Shakespeare's Characters for Students, Short Stories for Students, and World Literature and Its Times.

Helpful Reference Books at MCHS Central Library
    R 809 CON  Contemporary Literary Criticism (some of these are in Literature Resources from Gale Database)
    R 809 LIT  Literature and Its Times (also in Literature Resources from Gale Database, see above)
    R 809 MAG  Magill’s Survey of World Literature  
    R 809 WOR  World Literature Criticism
    R 809.1 POE  Poetry for Students (also in Literature Resources from Gale Database, see above)
    R 809.1 EPI  Epics for Students (also in Literature Resources from Gale Database, see above)
    R 809.13 NON  Nonfiction Classics for Students (also in Literature Resources from Gale Database, see above)
    R 809.2 DRA  Drama for Students
    R 809.2 HOC  McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
    R 809.3 NOV  Novels for Students (also in Literature Resources from Gale Database, see above)
    R 810.9 ABE  Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
    R 810.9 AME  American Women Writers
    R 810.9 GRE  Great American Writers: Twentieth Century
    R 810.9 MAG  Magill’s Survey of American Literature
    R 822.3 OLS  All Things Shakespeare
    R 822.3 SHA  Shakespeare for Students, Book II
    R 860.9 MOS  World Literature and Its Times
    R 928 CON Contemporary Authors (also in Literature Resources from Gale Database, see above)

Other Books


Use the above online catalog, Alexandria, to find books at both the Central and South Library. To request a book from Central Library be sent to the South library (or visa versa), please let your librarian know the title/author of the book(s) you would like requested. Books usually arrive the day after your request is made.
  

Use the above online catalog, PrairieCat, to find books you would like to Interlibrary Loan. Please complete our Interlibrary Loan Form (pdf) and drop it off at the Central Library. Books usually arrive about a week after your request is made.

Web Sites

    Critical Reading: A Guide - to help students think critically about literature
    Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
    Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Guide don't miss this one!
    LitLinks
    Literaryhistory.com
    Shmoop: Literature
    Literary Resources on the Net
    Multnomah County Library Homework Center: Literature and Authors
    PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
    American Collection
    Voices of the Shuttle
    English Literature on The Web
    Criticism on the Web - Shakespeare
    Shakespeare Resource Center
    Domestic Goddesses
    Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color
    American Literature Sites
    Yahoo's Authors Listing
    Glossary of Literary Terms
    Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

last updated: 9/01/10