Literary Criticism

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• Westmount Collegiate Institute Library Catalogue (search our catalog)
  
  • Dewey Decimal Classification (where to browse)

  800s - Literature
  810s- North American Literature in English
  820s - English & Old English Literature
  830s-880s - Literature of Other European Countries
  890s - Literature of Other Geographic Areas

• VPL Library Catalogues (restrict searches to our Bathurst/Clark or Dufferin/Clark branches)

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• EBSCO eBooks ca. 168,000+ fulltext books online - Login same as for EBSCO databases) - EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only
  • if searched within EBSCO Databases limit by Source Types (left column of search results) to eBooks only
  • eg/
  • "catcher in the rye" (no field selected) AND literary criticism (subject)
  • catcher in the rye (title)
  • literary criticism (subject) AND "the outsider" OR camus (no field selected)
  • hamlet (title) AND shakepeare* (no field selected) AND criticism OR analysis OR interpretation (no field selected)
  • shakespeare* (subject) AND criticism OR analysis OR interpret* (subject) AND father* OR mother* OR son OR sons OR daughter* (no field selected)
  
  
• GALE eBooks
• Literature Resources Center (bottom section of the GALE/INFOTRAC "Additional Products")
• eg/ To find literary criticism on Hamlet in Literature Resources Center database


• Infobase : Bloom's Literary Criticism Collections (currently 31 titles)


• Britannica Online

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• Curio.ca : CBC Documentaries(Browse by program title or search by keywords eg./ rum running canada) offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• NFB offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• Learn360 Multimedia Resources - pls. see Library for login info (or create new account)

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WCI Magazines / Newspapers / Journals Archives & Indexes(incl. all periodical sources and instructions)

• GALE Infotrac Databases
  • if only academic journals are required deselect all and then select Academic One File and/or Expanded Academic ASAP only from the top group.
  • More importantly then choose:
    • Shakespeare for Students as well as
    • Literature Resources Center and/or The Shakespeare Collection (these latter 2 are from the "ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS" section at the bottom). The "Additional Products" are searched individually.
      • To find literary criticism on Hamlet in Literature Resources Center database
      
      
• EBSCO Databases EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only (includes:)
  • Academic Collection eBooks (ca. 165,000+ fulltext books online)
  • Advanced Placement (cross-curricular academic resources)
  • Literary Reference Centre and Literary Reference Centre Plus - (literary criticism and literature resources)

Sample Subject keywords to use:
eg./

• literary criticism (subject) AND hamlet (subject)
• literary criti*(subject) AND camus (subject)
• literary (subject) AND alienation (subject ) AND interpretation* (all text)

Source Types may be viewed by: All Results, eBooks, Magazines, Academic Journals, etc.

 

How to Find Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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Search Google Now
alternately use Advanced Search OR Google Scholar
eg/

Advanced Search

• shakespeare criticism OR analysis OR interpretations
• To find journal articles, the important word is scholarly
  • kafka metamorphosis existential scholarly AND "human condition"
    Google will search for various related words based on its singular / root form (eg./ existential, existentialist, existentialism, etc.)
• replace the term scholarly with peer reviewed as necessary for the assignment
  • kafka metamorphosis existential "peer reviewed" AND "human condition"

Google Scholar:

• shakespeare criticism OR analysis OR interpretations -[citation]
• critical analysis existentialism camus -[citation]
• "literary theme" interpretation alienation -[citation]
• kafka "human condition" existentialism -[citation]

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