Tips for finding literary criticism
- To find criticism on a particular piece, put the title of the piece in quotation marks in one box, and the name of the author in the box below it. You might find articles analyzing your piece, or chapters within a book/essays within an anthology might be good as well. If you have a particular theme you are looking for, type search term(s) reflecting the theme into a third search box.
- To find criticism on an author as a whole, search for the name of the author. If you have a particular theme you are looking for, type search term(s) reflecting the theme into a third search box.
- Note: It's useful to remember that articles rarely contain the exact thesis of your paper. Rather than looking for articles that focus on all of the exact themes you are looking for, you will likely need to combine arguments from a few different articles with your own interpretation of the text.
The following databases are the best the library has for finding literary criticism about your works and authors.