Literary Criticism: Find Articles

Why search here? The main database of critical scholarship on all modern literatures and languages, also covering linguistics, folklore, film and media studies.
Content type: Scholarly articles, books, dissertations
Coverage dates: 1963-present

Why search here? Find scholarly journal articles and books in the humanities and social sciences.
Content type: Scholarly articles, book

Why search here? Good starting point when researching topics that intersect with multiple disciplines.
Content type: Scholarly articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles
Coverage dates: 1887-present; varies by title

Full-text database with plot summaries and work overviews; literary criticism; author biographies; book reviews; and literary works.

Gale Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

Why search here? Criticism and analysis of literature from classical and medieval literature through the early 2000s.
Content type: Encyclopedia entries, reviews, scholarly sources including critical essays

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

A collection from the JSTOR Understanding Series. Linking Shakespeare's original works to scholarship.

Why search here? Find scholarly sources on the study of language, including phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics, and anthropological linguistics.
Content type: Abstracts of scholarly articles, books, book chapters, dissertations
Coverage dates: 1973-presents.

Includes full-text biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Why search here? The dictionary of record for the English language, including the origins, etymology, and both historical and modern meanings of words.
Content type: Dictionary entries

Why search here? Good for book reviews from newspapers, popular magazines, and non-academic review magazines
Content type: Non-academic book reviews
Coverage dates: 1908-1982

With over 100,000 pages of fiction, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of African, African American, and African Diaspora women.

Why search here? Focus on biographies of writers and text of their literary works, with some literary criticism available.
Content type: Primary sources, literary works, biographical information, critical essays, reviews

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Content type: Newspaper articles, videos, games, recipes
Coverage dates: 1851-present

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Content type: Newspaper articles, trade journal articles, broadcast transcripts, financial reports, federal and state case law, medical abstracts, corporate profiles
Coverage dates: 1980-present