ENG 300 Literary Form and Analysis - Hines: Articles & book chapters
Literary criticism
An important aspect of literary research is to explore the scholarship that has been done on your topic. You may think of it as a conversation that you are about to join. This "scholarly communication" takes the form of journal articles, books and book chapters with extended participation through citations and bibliographies.
Book chapters
- PSU Library CatalogSearches the holdings of both PSU and Summit Libraries. Here you'll find books, journals, DVDs, maps, government documents, etc.
- MLA International BibliographyIndexes citations for world literature, literary criticism, linguistics, and folklore. Provides citations to international journals and series as well as books, book chapters, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Covers from 1963 to the present.
MLA Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography gets its own box on this page as it is the major resource for doing research in the literatures of all languages. You will also find it useful for linguisics and folklore.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides citations to journal articles, dissertations, and books about world literature, literary criticism, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present.
You can focus MLA searches by using the Primary Subject Work or Primary Subject Author fields.
A "normal" MLA search for criticism of the novel Beloved (note the large number of resulting citations).
Use the 'Select a Field' option to narrow the focus of your result set.
There are many fields in the MLA records, you will need to scroll down to choose Primary Subject Work or Primary Subject Author.
Notice how much smaller the set of records is:
Focusing MLA searches further
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MLA Bibliography and Databases
This series of short videos covers how to search for articles and essays using the MLA database. These videos walk you through searching and then using the navigation tools to link to the full text content in PSU Library's holdings of books and journals.
Other very useful databases for finding articles
- Literature Online - LIONIncludes reference works, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and secondary criticism of British and American literary works. Offers full text of some novels, poems, dramas, and prose. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) database which identifies journal articles on literary topics.
- JSTORNot a database per se as much as an archive of scholarly journals. Contains full text articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage of most journals starts from the beginning of a journal's publication and typically excludes the most recent three to five years.
- Literature CompassPublishes an online-only, peer-reviewed journal that features survey articles of the most important research and current thinking across the literature discipline.
- ProjectMuseA scholarly archive full text articles and ebooks from university press journals and books.
Search for an Article Using Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar from the PSU Library, and enter the title of the article. If the Library has the article, there will be a link to the right, Find it @ PSU.
Find it @ PSU leads to the full text article in the PSU Library catalog.
If it is not available full text through Google Scholar, PSU Library could still hold the article in print. Search for the journal to see the Library's holdings. If the library does not hold the journal at all, request it from Interlibrary Loan & Article Delivery.