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LITERARY CRITICISM: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

KCMA Online Catalog

Useful LC SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:
American Literature--history and criticism
English Literature--history and criticism
Fiction--history and criticism
Literature--history and criticism
Literature, Modern, 20th Century--history and criticism

<genre> history and criticism
Example: Greek drama history and criticism
Russian literature history and criticism
<author> criticism and interpretation
Example: Melville, Herman 1819-1891 criticism and interpretation
<author> <title of work>
Example: Miller, Arthur 1915 Crucible

Useful LC CALL NUMBERS on this subject:

PN 41Literary Encyclopedias
PN 44Digests and synopses of literature
PN 80-99Literature: Criticism
PR 1-56English literature: history and criticism
PR 57-77English literature: Criticism
PS 51American Literature: Research, Criticism

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REFERENCE RESOURCES

R PN41 .C3Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature
R PN41 .M42Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
R PN451 .K8European Authors, 1000-1900
R PN44 .M32Masterplots
R PN771 .K86Twentieth Century Authors, a Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature
R PN774 .L433Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
R PN1601 .D595Drama for Students
R PN3385 .N68Novels for Students
R PR19 .O94 2000The Oxford Companion to English Literature
R PR77 .L5zA Library of Literary Criticism
R PR85 .M33 1985The Major Authors Edition of the New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism
R PR2892 .B69Shakespeare A to Z
R PR2987 .S47Shakespeare for Students
R PS21 .H3 1995The Oxford Companion to American Literature
R PS21 .K96American Authors, 1600-1900
R PS21 .R4The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
R PS88 .C65Literature in America : an Illustrated History
R PS129 .A58American Writers : Selected Authors
R PS147 .O94 The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
R PS151 .M54Modern American women writers
R PS153.I52 W47 1999 Native American Literatures : an Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes
R PS153.N5 M264 Masterpieces of African-American Literature

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Arts and Humanitites Citation Index
Citations and cited references from over 1,100 arts and humanities journals
Electronic Journals Center
Full-text indexing service for over 2000 online scholarly and research journals including many in the humanities
Literary Reference Center
a comprehensive literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day
Modern Language Association International Bibliography
Covers 4000 journals in language, linguistics and folklore
Humanitites International Complete
provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities
Academic Search Complete
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Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center
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American Literary History
American Literature
College Literature
Critical Quarterly
Diacritics
ELH: English Literary History
Essays in Criticism
Journal of American Studies
Journal of Modern Literature
Legacy
Marvels and Tales
New Literary History
Philosophy and Literature
Resources for American Literary Study
Review of English Studies
Southern Literary Journal
SymplokŻe
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Victorian Studies
Yale Journal of Criticism

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:
IPL: Literary Criticism Resources
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

ECLAT
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/"

BUBL Links: Literary Study and Criticism
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=10952