The following book titles are accessed through online library databases. These excellent sources are great to use for literary criticisms or literary analysis on a specific author, short story, novel, poetry, or play.
"Careful, analytical reading should always be the first step in your writing process. This resource provides models of such close, analytical reading, and these should help you develop your own skills as a reader and as a writer."
Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
Highlights some of the most prominent novelists, dramatists, short story writers, and essayists from around the world.
Each volume offers 10-14 highly in-depth, yet accessible, essays that provide researchers with many avenues to learn about and study the subject.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.