Literary Criticism

This guide is intended to help you get started. Titles cited below do not represent a comprehensive listing of what is available in this library on the subject. You are encouraged to look for additional sources as appropriate to the scope and topic of your research.

PRINT RESOURCES

Essay and General Literature Index: lists chapters and passages in books by name of author of the literary work of interest, and by title of the work critiqued.
(REF AI3 .E752)

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: for authors who wrote between 600 - 1950
(REF Z2011 .N45)

19th Century Literary Criticism: for authors who wrote in the 19th century
(REF PN761 .N5)

20th Century Literary Criticism: for authors who died between 1900 and 1960
(REF PN771 .G27)

Contemporary Literary Criticism: for authors who are living, or have died since 1960
(REF PN771 .C59)

Masterplots: 2010 Plot Stories and Essay Reviews
from the World's Fine Literature, 12-vol set.
(REF PN44 .M33 1976)

Survey of Contemporary Literature contains reviews first published before 1977, most containing additional bibliography
(REF PN44 M35)

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES*

MLA: International bibliography of books and articles on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The most comprehensive source for literary research.

Wilson Web (Article Index): Contains indexing and abstracting of approximately 2,218 periodicals covering current events, business, social sciences, science, the humanities, and education. The OmniFile Full Text Mega contains the full text of articles included in more than 800 periodical titles.

Article 1^st: An on-line index of journals, interdisciplinary subject coverage of articles published from 1990 to present.

CLC Select (Contemporary Literary Criticism): Contemporary Literary Criticism is now available online as CLC Select. It contains an extensive collection of critical essay on contemporary writers. CLC Select also provides an integrated index to the entire Contemporary Literary Criticism print series located in Reference.

* Locating materials after using bibliographies/indexes:Having a citation from a print index or a database does not automatically mean that Cal Poly Pomona Library will have that journal or book. To determine if the title is in the Cal Poly Pomona Library, search the title in the Library Catalog.

You can obtain materials (articles, books, etc.) not in the Cal Poly Pomona Library by submitting request(s) in person or online to the Document Delivery department in the Library.

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