LiteraryCriticism

toc =Literary Criticism=



This guide is designed to help you research information about literary criticism. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!


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=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest.

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Good Search Terms to use

 * Use specific title or author when searching:
 * Example 1: "Alice Walker and literary criticism"
 * Example 2. "Color Purple and literary criticism"
 * We have whole books in our collection dedicated to literary criticism of specific authors or books.
 * "Literary Criticism"
 * "Critical essays"
 * "Critical interpretations"

Circulating Books
 Walters, Tracey L. //African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black women writers from Wheatley to Morrison.// New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: PS153.N5 W335 2007**

Olster, Stacey, ed. //The Cambridge Companion to John Updike//. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Print.
 * Call Number: PS3571.P4 Z586 2006**

Bates, Gerri. //Alice Walker: A critical companion//. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005. Print.
 * Call Number: PS3573.A425 Z57 2005**

[|Ebrary]
The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. This is the “community college” collection, of interest to students and faculty at 2-year colleges. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users.

[|James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: comparative critical theoretical essays] King, Lovalerie and Lynn Orilla Scott, eds. //James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative critical theoretical essays//. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Web.

[|Asian North American Identities : Beyond the Hyphen] Ty, Eleanor Rose and Donald C. Goellnicht. //Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen//. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 200. Web.



[|The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras: Essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism]. Rebolledo, Tey Diana. //The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras: Essays on Chicano/Latina literature and criticism//. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Web.

[|Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America : Intervening Acts] Unruh, Vickey. //Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America: Intervening Acts//. Austin: University of Texas Press, 200. Web.

Biographies
Smith, Valerie, ed. //African American Writers//. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. PS153.N5 A344 2001**

Peck, David, ed. //American Ethnic Writers//. Hackensack: Salem Press, Inc, 2000. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. PS153.M56 A414 2000**

Unger, Leonard, ed. //American Writers: A collection of literary biographies//. New York : Scribner, 1996. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. PS129.A55**

Salem Press. //Notable Latino Writers.// Hackensack: Salem Press, Inc, 2006. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. PS153.H56 N68 2006**

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
Harris, Wendell V. //Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory//. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. PN41 .H36 1992**

Jackson, Guida. //Encyclopedia of Literary Epics//. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1996. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. PN56.E65 J331 1996**

Literary Criticism
Richter, David H., ed. //The Critical Tradition: Classic texts and contemporary trends//.Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: REF PN81 .C844 2007**

Sandin, Lyn Di Iorio and Richard Perez, eds. //Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism//. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: REF PS153.H56 C67 2007**

Ervin, Hazel Arnett, ed. //African American Literary Criticism//, //1773 to 2000//. New York: Twayne, 1999. Print.
 * Call Number: REF PS153.N5 A33 1999**

Krstovic, Jelena O., ed. //Black Literature Criticism: Classic and emerging authors since 1950//. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2008. Print.
 * Call Number: REF PS153.N5N557 2008x**

Krstovic, Jelena O, ed. //Hispanic Literature Criticism//. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1994. Print.
 * Call Number: REF PQ7081.A1 H573 1994**

Valdes, Mario J. and Djelal Kardir, eds. //Literary Cultures of Latin America : A comparative history.// New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.Print.
 * Call Number: REF PQ7081.A1 L525 2004**

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's periodicals section for articles about literary criticism.
 * //Contemporary Literature//

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

[|Literary Reference Center]
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This is the best place to start. [|Tutorial]

[|Literature Resource Center]
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

[|BPL Biography Databases]
Biography databases from the Boston Public Library. You can use your RCC library barcode for access. These databases contain more than 400,000 biographies on nearly 275,000 people gathered from over 90 reference sources, including Biography Resource Center, Biography Resource Center: African Americans and Oxford African American Studies Center. Good place to find information about authors.

[|BPL Literature Databases]
Literature databases from the Boston Public Library. You can use your RCC library barcode for access. These databases include //LitFinder// (contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, //LitFinder// also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more!) and Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.)

[|Academic Search Premier]
Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study. Searching yields over 3,000 results on the terms critic* and Shakespeare, 250 for critic* and Toni Morrison, and 50 for critic* and Langston Hughes. [|Tutorial]

=Web sites= There are some good literary criticism web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has a very good guide.


 * [|IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection]
 * [|Literary History]
 * [|Literary Resources on the Net]
 * [|PAL: Perspectives in American Literature]
 * [|The New York Review of Books]
 * [|Voice of the Shuttle: (Literature in English)]
 * [|The Times Literary Supplement]

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

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Research guide prepared on 05/29/08 by William Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu. Updated on 4/1/114 by Joy Singletary.