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Search by author or title, to find criticism articles in one of our literary databases.

Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
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Literature (Gale) This link opens in a new window Gale Literary Sources integrates full-text literary content with metadata and subject indexing and provides workflow tools to analyze information. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
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Literary Reference Source Plus (Badgerlink) This link opens in a new window A collection of literary criticism and works with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time-frames. For students and adult researchers
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Literature Criticism (Gale) This link opens in a new window Provides criticism and commentary on authors and their literary works written by contemporary and modern scholars.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline.
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Poetry & Short Story Reference Source (Badgerlink) This link opens in a new window Full-text classic and contemporary poems,short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides
TeachingBooks (BadgerLink) This link opens in a new window Multimedia on K-12 fiction and non-fiction books for students and educators.
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window This combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. Keywords: Language, Etymology

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Searching for Criticism Books

An easy way to start your search is to go to the One Search box on the library's website, and enter the author's name, or the title of the work, followed by "and criticism." Results will include books, articles, and videos.

Examples:

Morrison AND Criticism
Beloved AND Criticism

Hint: You can tell a book is a criticism of another work by 1) the author's name, or 2) there will be a "z" right after the numbers in the middle of the call number.

So for example, the call number for the book, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is 813 F553g 2004,

but the call number for a criticism of this book, also called "The Great Gatsby" by Roger Lathbury is 813 F553zg8

Also, if you click on the title of the book, and scroll down to the subject headings, you will see the term "criticism" in the subject headings.