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Literary
Criticism
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This
pathfinder is a starting point for your research. It will give you a jump-start
to academic resources in both online and print formats. Ask a reference
librarian for additional suggestions.
Web
sites
Internet
Public Library:Literary Criticism
contains critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works
that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary
period; created by a team of librarians and supported by the School of
Information, University of Michigan, the Internet Public Library was one
of the first subject directories on the web
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Need further sources of criticism? See the Online
Literary Criticism Guide for additional links on literary criticism
and also What Is Literary
Criticism, How Can I Find It? for additional suggestions on finding
information in the Oakton Library and on the web.
Selected
Reference Books In The Oakton Library
Note
Many of the following books are encyclopedia sets
located on the 2nd floor of Library, Des Plaines campus.
Tip
Remember
to use the index volume of the encyclopedia set to locate what you need.
African
American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Call Number: REF PS153.N5A32 (DP)
African American
Writers (3 volumes)
Call Number: REF PS153.N5A344 (DP)
American Women
Writers (4 volumes)
Call Number REF PS147.A42 (DP)
Asian American Literature:Reviews
and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent
Call
Number: REF PS153.A84A82
(DP)
Asian
American Novelists:A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Call
Number: REF
PS153.A84A825 (DP)
Black Literature
Criticism (4 volumes)
Call
Number: REF
PS153.N5B556 (DP)
Contemporary
Literary Criticism
(multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN771.C59 (DP & RHC)
Critical
Survey of Drama (7 volumes)
Call Number: REF PR623.C75 (DP)
Critical
Survey of Long Fiction (8 volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN3451.C75 (DP)
Critical Survery of Poetry (8 volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PR502.C85 (DP)
Critical
Survey of Short Fiction (7 volumes)
Call
Number:
REF
PN3321.C7 (DP)
Dictionary of Literary Biography
(multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PS21.D53
(DP)
Drama
Criticism (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF
PN1707.D73 (DP)
Drama for Students (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN1601.D595 (DP)
Latino and Latina Writers (2 volumes)
Call Number: REF PS153.H56L39 (DP)
Literary Movements for Students (2
volumes)
Call Number: REF PN597.L58 (DP)
Literature and Its Times (5 volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN50.L574 (DP)
Modern American Women Writers
Call
Number:
REF PS151.M54 (DP)
Nineteenth-Century Criticism (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN761.N56 (DP)
Novels for Students (multi-volumes)
Call Number: REF PN3385.N68 (DP)
Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Call Number: REF PS153.N5O96 (DP)
Poetry Criticism (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN1010.P499 (DP)
Poetry for Students (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF PN1101.P64 (DP)
Reference Guide to World Literature
Call Number: REF PN524.R44 (DP)
A Research Guide
for Undergraduate Students:English and American Literature
Call
Number:
REF PR56.B34 (DP)
Short Stories for Students (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF
PN3373.S3844 (DP & RHC)
Short Story Criticism (multi-volumes)
Call Number: REF PN3321.S5 (DP)
1,300 Critical Evaluations of Selected Novels and Plays (4 volumes)
Call
Number:
REF
PN44.M35 (DP)
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (multi-volumes)
Call
Number:
REF
PN94.T83 (DP)
The
Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites
Call
Number:
REF Z1225.B67 (DP)
Books
in the Oakton Library
Search ILLINET
Online, the Library's online book catalog, for books by and about
specific authors and their works.
Full
text Periodicals
Search
these online periodical indexes for
magazine, journal and newspaper articles about authors and about their
works:
Expanded
Academic ASAP
WilsonWeb/Humanities
Index
Many of these articles will be full text and can be sent to your e-mail
account. You can search these index from any computer on campus. For off
campus access, follow the directions below.
Note
To
access these
online periodical indexes from off
campus, enter 23211 immediately followed by your social security number.
(example: 23211xxxxxxxxx)
Tip
Literary
criticism can provide valuable insight into a short story, novel, play
or poem.
Note
This
pathfinder is a starting point for your research. It will give you a jump-start
to academic resources in both online and print formats. Ask a reference
librarian for additional suggestions.
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