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Literary Criticism and Literary Finding Tools

Contents:

Literary criticism
Indexes to literary journals and books of essays
Tools for finding plays, poems or short stories
See also the InfoDome on English

Literary Criticism

ASA, Lehigh's Library Catalog http://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/uhtbin/webcat
Choose Browse, type in the name of the author, and click Subject. This will allow you to find books on the author and/or on specific works.

Literature Resource Center http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitRC?&u=LRC&u=CA&u=CLC&u=DLB
Includes the full text of Contemporary Authors (Quick Reference Biographical material and lists of references to critical material on contemporary authors), and selected Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as books from their Literature Criticism series.

The print equivalents are: Gale reference collections of critical articles and essays Linderman Library L-1-REF
Collection of literary criticism and biographies published by Gale Research. Located in the Linderman Library reference 800 call number area and includes:

Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) 809 C761 L-1-REF
Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) 809 D554 L-1-REF
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) 809.04 G152t L-1-REF
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) 809.034 N714 L-1-REF
Literature Criticism 1400-1800 (LC) 809.03 L776 L-1-REF
Shakespeare Criticism (SC) 822.33 S52719 L-1-REF

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Index to good criticism on the Web of specific works, authors, etc. Some sites have a cost to see the full text.(Bear in mind that not everything on the Internet is good: this site is selective but junk could slip through.)

Literary Criticism on the Net: http://start.at/literarycriticism
An index to publically-provided literary criticism (most of it academic).(Bear in mind that not everything on the Internet is good: this site is selective but junk could slip through.)

Indexes to literary journals and books of essays

MLA Bibliography http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=MLA;FSIP
Primary index to articles and essays in literature, linguistics and folklore.

Book Review Digest http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=BookRevDigst;FSIP
Index to book reviews, some of which can be considered "literary criticism." Includes excerpts.

Book Review Index L-1-Ref (Indexes)
Index to book reviews in more scholarly publications.

Proquest http://www.umi.com/pqdauto
Index to a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications. Includes some full text/full image.

Academic Index ASAP, Expanded (Infotrac) http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lehigh_main
Index to a wide variety of journals and magazines. Includes some full text

Tools for finding plays, poems or short stories

Use the following tools to find plays, poems or short stories that appear in anthologies. Once you get the title of an anthology that includes the piece you're interested in, check ASA, Lehigh's Library Catalog for the library stack or online location. Sometimes you can also find short stories and plays in anthologies by looking them up in ASA, if the anthology's table of contents has been entered into the catalog.

Granger's Poetry Index L-1-REF 808.8 G75
Short Story Index L-1-REF 016.8088 C771sa L-1-REF
Play Index L-1-REF 016.8088

You may also want to check Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online http://lion.chadwyck.com/ , which has full text of a large number of poems, plays and other literary works.
The Poetry Archives: http://www.emule.com/poetry/, a free service, also has poetry online.

Last modified: 10/16/00; 11/10/02, jah