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- Academic Search Complete General database covering a wide variety of subjects
- JSTOR Full text digital archive featuring many important Humanities journals
- Literature Resource Center A "current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world."
Book Reviews vs. Literary Criticism
What's the Difference?
Almost any book can have a book review published about it, although not every book does. There are book reviews of both fiction and nonfiction, both scholarly and popular works. Book reviews may vary in length from a few sentences to several pages. Literary criticism is a more in-depth analysis of the work in question, including more interpretation and evaluation.
Resources for Book Reviews
- Academic Search Complete General databases, each with many full-text reviews. Try entering the title of the book and the word "review" into the search box (e.g. "Bluest Eye" AND review).
- AllReaders.comInteresting search engine for identifying books and book reviews by character, genre, plot, style, and theme. Subject categories consist of Biographies, History, Literature, Mystery & Adventure, Romance, and Sci-fi/Fantasy.
- Atlantic Monthly BooksProvides reviews, excerpts and author interviews for new books.
- Literature Resource Center "Reviews of books of all sorts, from children's literature to adult fiction, from popular non-fiction to scholarly studies. (After your search, select the Reviews and News tab.)"
Resources for Literary Criticism
- Academic Search Complete In these two general databases, you can try searching for the title of the book and the word 'criticism' (e.g. "Bluest Eye" AND criticism) or you can search for the title plus the aspect of the book that interests you (e.g. "Bluest Eye" AND beauty).
- Literature Resource Center An electronic library consisting of criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists.
- MLA Bibliography Since this is an international bibliography, it contains resources in many different languages. If you think you've found something useful, make sure it's written in a language you can understand.
- Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)Links to over 4,000 websites providing literary criticism and other information about authors.
Reference Resources
- Biography in Context Biographical information about notable people
- Contemporary AuthorsVolumes 206-301 are online. Previous volumes are shelved in Reference Stacks Z1224 .C59
Check Gale Literary Index to find out which volume your author appears in. - Contemporary Authors New RevisionVolumes 114-203 are online. Previous volumes are shelved in Reference Stacks Z1224 .C592.
Check Gale Literary Index to find out which volume your author appears in. - The Craft of ResearchBook Stacks
Q180.55.M4 B66 2003 - Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th CenturyReference Stacks
PN771 .E5 1999 - Gale Literary Index Online master index to Gale's literary reference series (e.g. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Poetry Criticism, etc.)
- A Glossary of Literary TermsBook Stacks
PN41 .A184 2005 - MLA Language MapShows language distribution in the U.S.
- The Oxford Guide to Library ResearchBook Stacks
Z710 .M23 2005 - Oxford English Dictionary Online version of the OED
- Voice of the ShuttleA web site for all manner of humanities research, including literature, literary theory, and writing.
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