Library Guides: ENGL 015 & 30: Rhetoric and Composition (Berks): Prof. Thomas Lynn

Prof. Thomas Lynn

Examples of Literary Criticism

Anne Frank

Siddhartha

Databases

Gale Literary Sources
Allows users to search by work or author.
The Gale Literary Sources interface enables users to cross-search all of PSU's subscribed Gale literary content.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Scholarly reference articles written by experts. Gale is one of the best publishers of literary criticism.
A collection of over 2000 reference resources.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Considered a "gold standard" source for literary criticism.
The MLA International Bibliography contains more than 1.7 million records for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Literature Online Core (LION Core) (legacy)
Lit crit plus biographical essays and online literary dictionaries.
With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism.
Gale Literature Criticism
Formerly known as the Gale brown books.
Literature Criticism Online offers biographical and critical essays on authors and their works including novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, literary theorists, and other writers. The database features full-text content from a number of Gale print literature sets.

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