Use this guide to find the right books and articles pertaining to your assigned work of literature. Find resources for writing a literary criticism paper.

See tab above for access to all parts of this guide.                                                             .

• Find Books - Get books from our library, including eBooks.
• Find Articles - Get articles on authors, works of literature, and more.
• Websites - Cultivated web resources for literature criticism. 
• Cite Sources - The best resources for creating your citations.

The Library Catalog gives you an entry point to books, eBooks, videos, and articles.

Use these specialized databases to find the literary criticism articles.

• Literature Resource Center - Articles and information on more than 130,000 authors. 800,000+ articles in Full Text.Gale has long been the standard for providing literary criticism.
• Literary Reference Center - Criticisms, plot summaries, and biographies. 102,000 critical essays/articles. 450 journals included.
• Academic Search Complete - The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for more than 8,500 publications in a user-friendly format with many helpful special features.

Much of the layout and inspiration for this Research Guide comes from similar pages from the Portland Community College Library.

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