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Literary Criticism

Learn how to find critical scholarship related to a literary work, author, or literary movement using Pierce's print and electronic resources.

Literary Criticism in Print

Literary Criticism Series
View the library's print collections of literary criticism organized by time period and format. Each book listed here represents many volumes; use the Gale Literary Index below to look up which volume you need.
Gale Literary Index
Look up which volume of our print Literary Criticism Series discusses a particular literary work or author.

Literary Criticism Databases

Gale Literature

Find author biographies, book reviews, topic overviews, and literary criticism from scholarly journals.
Literature Resource Center

Offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Multi-Subject Databases

JSTOR

Archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Academic Search Complete

Multi-subject database which contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals, with full text for more than 9,000 of those titles.

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