DeWitt Library Subject Guides: ENG102 &amp; General Literature Research: Find Literary Criticism Online

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Open Source Shakespeare
"Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century." -Description on site
JSTOR's Understanding Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library editions of all 38 plays. Choose a line from a play to see all the articles in JSTOR that cite that line.

Databases for Criticism and Reviews

Literature criticism is a secondary source written about a work of literature. For example, an essay about the role of symbolism in A Rose for Emily would be considered literary criticism. Literary criticism typically evaluates the content and/or quality of a work of literature; it is not a summary. You will find literature criticism in academic journals and books.

Use the direct Links to the following databases to search for criticism and reviews of literature, poetry and other works of fiction.

Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across Gale's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. Includes content from Gale's Literature Resource Center, Twayne's Authors, LitFinder, and Gale Virtual Reference Library.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Content largely derives from the social sciences and humanities with more than 2,000 academic journals and over 20,000 books. JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journals in both digital and print formats, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three to five years.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for scholarly sources in the humanities, including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Includes 100,000+ multidisciplinary ebooks. The majority of titles have publication dates of 2004 and later. Titles will appear in DiscoverDeWitt search results.

For more contemporary works, you may need to search a broader pool of resources. Reviews in magazines and newspapers can be found by searching the following:

DiscoverDeWitt This link opens in a new window
Search everything available through the library's collections and subscriptions. Limit to Library Catalog for books and other physical items. Search the SUNY Catalog and make interlibrary loan requests from within the same interface.

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ENG102 & General Literature Research

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Databases for Criticism and Reviews