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Literary Criticisms on Short Stories and Poems

Library Home page: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/

Search Strategy Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/strategy.html

Literary Criticism Databases:

These two databases lead you to reference materials that contain selected literary criticisms from a variety of resources. Often the most famous criticisms on particular works and authors will be found in these materials. Literature Resource Center is a large, full-text database of many literary criticisms coming from a variety of resources including reference books, magazines, and journals.

Gale Literary Index http://tinyurl.com/zst23 Use this database to find criticisms on your author in many different print resources published by Gale such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography (select volumes), Poetry Critcism (up to volume 68) and Short Story Criticism (Up to volume 42). Link of print resources available at the Library (use Gale Literary Index for list of sources, then go to the shelves to find the respective title and volume to find criticisms on your author): http://tinyurl.com/pryyq

Literature Resource Center http://tinyurl.com/6bk7c DO NOT E-MAIL ARTICLES FROM LRC.  THERE IS A TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEM AND YOU WILL NOT GET THE ENTIRE ARTICLE. Find many selected literary criticisms, articles, essays, and biographies on line and in full text. Some criticisms are famous and were originally published from 1900 to the present.

How to use Literature Resource Center

1. At Author Search, enter the name of the author and surround it in quotation marks as the example below shows:

2. From your results, select the folder tab for a particular type of resources. In Biographies, you will not only find information about the author, but some of the biographies also include extensive overviews on the author's major works. Literary Criticism, Articles, and Work Overviews will provide interpretations, criticisms and general overviews of the author's works as well. Bibliographies will lead you to both writings by the author as well as writings about the author. Finally, Additional Resources will lead you to selected web sites on your chosen author. The category you are looking it is the one with the folder tab in white.

3. When selecting a category, you will sometimes have choices of subcategories. For example, in "Literary Criticism, Articles, & Work Overviews," you have listed below further selections in green boxes. Select the green box for your desired selection (usually will be "Literary Criticism" or "Articles" rather than the "Work Overviews" example listed below):

4. Once you make your selections, select the options listed below. The results will lead you to information in full text.

5. When viewing the secondary resource, itself in Literature Resource Center, you can E-Mail or Print by clicking on the options stated on the top left of the screen:

Multi-Subject Periodical Databases

In addition to the Gale Databases, you can find many other literary criticisms on line and in full text, especially coming from articles published from 1995 to the present.

EbscoHost Academic Search Elite http://tinyurl.com/4brwe A multi-subject database, covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more!	Project MUSE http://tinyurl.com/3lfuj Scholarly journal articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
ProQuest Diversity Databases http://tinyurl.com/zhxtg Full text database of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newsletters, and books  that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.	EbscoHost Trial Databases http://tinyurl.com/gk3mj Search Literary Reference Center or Humanities International Complete to find more articles, essays, and literary criticisms. Trial ends on April 22, 2006

Finding More Literary Criticisms in the Collection and Online

Literary Criticism Library Research Guide http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/litcrit.html

This guide scopes out the many different pathways to literary criticism through the print reference collection, library subscription databases, and many quality web sites.

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Library of Congress Classification Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/lc.html

Literary Criticism Collections on Reserves and Short Stories Reference

Title	Location
Short Story Criticism (V.1- 42)	Reference: PSN 3373 S56
Reference Guide to Short Fiction	Reference: PN 3373 R36 1994
A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English	Reference: PS 374.S5 R43 2001
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story	Reference: PS 374.S5 C57 2000
Masterplots: Poetry Series	Reference: PN 1110.5 M37 1991
Critical Survey of Poetry	Reference: PN 1111 C7

Reference Resources for Further Research

Title	Location
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory	Reference: PN 41 C83 1998
Dictionary of American History	Reference: E 174.D52 2003
American Decades	Reference: E 169.1 A4199 1995
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture	Reference: E 169.1.S764 2000
Reference Library of Black America	Reference: E 185 R44 1997
Reference Library of European America	Reference: E 184 E95 R45 1998
Reference Library of Native North America	Reference: E 77 N37 1994

World Wide Web: Academic Searching

Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org	INFOMINE: Social Sciences and Humanities http://tinyurl.com/4se5j
Online Subject Index http://tinyurl.com/emoe6	Scout Report Archives http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/
Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.us/	Virtual Learning Resources Center http://www.virtuallrc.com/

Citing Resources

MLA Handout http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html

Additional Tips to Citing Resources from Literature Resource Center

The easiest way to figure out how to cite your online document is to view its citation as a link in the "Results List" mode, then modify it using the MLA format. Follow the directions as indicated under "Citing Resources from Library Subscription Databases" from the MLA Handout (link listed above). For the example below, since the place of publication for the original is unknown, it is omitted. Notice that additional information on the book and the credentials of the editors are NOT included in the citation.

From the Results List in Literature Resource Center:	How you would cite the source:
	Elias, Eduardo F. "Sandra Cisneros." Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 122: Chicano Writers, Second Series. Ed. Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley. Gale Group, 1992: 77-81. Literature Resource Center. Chabot College Lib., Hayward, CA. 15 Nov. 2003 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu>.