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ENC 1102 (Brandon): More Gale Literary Indexes

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Finding Criticism on your title using the Gale Literary Indexes

Finding Literary Criticism

Gale Reference Series

Finding criticism on your TITLE in most GALE series:

1. Find the most recent volume in ANY Gale series that indicates it has a CUMULATIVE INDEX

2. Find your author’s name in the index

3. Note the series name and volume numbers in which you will find information about your author.

4. Authors are arranged alphabetically within each volume in each of the series.

5. Check the title index at the back of the volume for the pages where your particular TITLE is discussed in that volume.

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Finding Criticism on your Author using the Gale Literary Series

Finding Literary Criticism

Gale Reference Series

Finding criticism on your author in most GALE series:

1. Find the most recent volume in ANY Gale series that indicates it has a CUMULATIVE INDEX

2. Find your author’s name in the index

3. Note the series name and volume numbers in which you will find information about your author.

4. Authors are arranged alphabetically within each volume in each of the series.

Abbreviations of most commonly used series:

Series	Abbreviation	Location
Contemporary Literary Criticism	CLC	REF PN771.C59
20^thCentury Literary Criticism	TCLC	REF PN771.5T9
19^th Century Literary Criticism	NCLC	REF PN761.N5
Short Story Criticism	SSC	REF PN3373.S386
Poetry Criticism	PC	REF PN1126.P64
World Literature Criticism	WLC	REF PN523.W67

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