WR 301 Critical Writing in English - Lincoln: Criticism: books, essays, databases
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Critical Interpretation in books
You can search the Library's catalog to find full length monographs on an author (or a particular work) as well as essays and chapters appearing in books.
When searching library catalogs, add the keywords 'criticism and interpretation' to the author's name and you'll surface works of criticism that cover several of the author's texts:
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and Interpretation.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation..
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Atwood, Margaret, 1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.
For very famous texts, you can search the title as a SUBJECT heading and that search will surface critical works.
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Disgrace
Overviews, summaries of criticism
- 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.
- Literature Resource CenterProvides reference, literary timelines, and articles on authors, journalists, and critics from all literary periods. Covers literary genres such as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
- Literature Criticism OnlineConsists of summaries of works, Western literary criticism, and literary movements as well as biographical sketches of authors from the classical period to the present.
- Critical InsightsProvides access and searching capability to the Critical Insights book series comprised of classic and current literary criticism.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography OnlineA subset of the Literature Criticism Online database; the DLB includes monographic length overviews of criticism , historical setting, biographical details for individual authors or a work. Additionally other volumes in the series provide overviews for groups of authors by genre or historic setting.