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Finding Literary Criticism / Commentary

Try searching the Discovery System (the search box on the Library's homepage) with your selected author or title of the work and keywords such as "criticism," "commentary," or "context."

Or, search Literary Criticism databases directly:

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Content: Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), this bibliography contains millions of citations from journals and series, as well as book publishers. Coverage is international and includes titles and full-text links from online publishers including JSTOR, Project MUSE, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis.
Coverage: 1920s – present
Tutorial View a tutorial about EBSCO databases
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Content: JSTOR provides access to a wide variety of core scholarly journals and eBooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The SRSU Library has access to several archive collections through JSTOR, including:
Coverage: All journal titles through JSTOR include a full archival run starting from the first volume. Many include content up to a period of around 3-5 years ago.

Tutorial: View a tutorial about using JSTOR | View JSTOR's LibGuide about using JSTOR
Literature (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Content: Gale Literature is a cross-search research experience that brings together Gale’s premier literary databases. The cross-search allows researchers of all levels to find a starting point, search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and discover new ways to analyze information. Currently, users can cross-search these collections with Gale Literature:
Gale Literature Criticism – one of the largest, most extensive compilations of literary commentary available
Gale Literature Resource Center – 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
LitFinder – 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
Subcollections of eBook titles – including Scribner Writers and Twayne's Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography – signed scholarly essays that provide essential context to understand the careers and writings of more than 12,000 authors from all time periods and all parts of the world
Something About the Author – engaging biographies of classic, contemporary, and emerging authors and illustrators of children's and young adult literature
Contemporary Authors – current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors
Tutorial: View a tutorial about GALE databases
Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Content: Provide access to over 245,000 documents related to literature and literary criticism representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Related links: SRSU Holdings in this database
Tutorial: View a tutorial about GALE databases
Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Content: Gale Literature Resource Center provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their own literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented. The database features primary works in a variety of genres, up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews that encourage interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills.