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literary criticism and theory

Selected Starting Points:

 

Literature Resource Center . [Online Resource]. Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors and their works. Includes Contemporary Authors (CA), Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLS), Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), and full text scholarly journals.  For an index to these titles, try Gale's Literary Index (which can also be found in LRC).

 

Literary Criticism - Directory of 1,300 links for US and British literary works from pre-1500 to the present.

 

American Literary Scholarship (Ref 810.9 Am35) Durham, NC: Duke, Annual. Library has 1965 to present.

 

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC). (Ref 809.04 C767) Detroit: Gale, 1996.

 

Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) (Ref 809.04 C767) Detroit: Gale, Annual.

 

Contemporary Novelists. (Ref 823.9109 V786a) 7th ed. Detroit: St. James, 2001.

 

Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (LC) (Ref 809.03 L712) 92 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1984-present.

 

LitFinder 

 

Magill's Literary Annual (Ref 809.04 M272a) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1977 to present.

 

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Ref 809.034 T918) Detroit: Gale, 1978 -.

 

Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (Ref 809.034 N622) Detroit: Gale, 1981 -.

 

Special Topics

American Nature Writers. (Ref 810.9 EL22) 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1996.

 

Black Literature Criticism (BLC). (Ref 810.9896 D791) Detroit: Gale, 1992.

 

Feminist Writers. (Ref 809.93352 K489) Detroit: St. James, 1996.

 

Gay and Lesbian Literature. (Ref 809.933 G872) 2 vols. Detroit: St. James, 1994-1998.

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library   [Online] - Includes

American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion

Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature

 

Modern American Women Writers. (Ref 810.99287 Sh82) New York: Scribner, 1991.

 

Shakespearean Criticism. (Ref 822.33 H242) Detroit: Gale, 1984 to present.

 

Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. (Ref 809.3876 B616) New York: Scribner, 1985.

 

 


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