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Literature--Literary Criticism/Summaries

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Discovering Collection
Literary Criticism, biographies, and much more on over 3000 authors can be found in this database. Passwords are required if used from home. See library staff.

Novels for Students Ebooks
Literary Criticism, biographies, plot summaries, character analysis, historical context and much more! This link will take you to Volumes 17 - 24.Passwords are required if used from home. See library staff. Print volumes are available in the library too!

IPL Online Literary Criticism
There are 3936 biographical and critical essays on authors here.

Shmoop
From the UNC student newspaper, "Shmoop provides an in-depth analysis of themes, characters, literary devices … and the list goes on. This content is all provided by Ph.D. and masters' students, much more than can be said for sites like Wikipedia.org. Shmoop's content is all regulated and updated on the norm by a full-time staff. What some have said is the best part of Shmoop.com is that it provides multiple perspectives on the same topic, not the stereotypical one-sided argument".

Literary Analysis and Criticism from Owl at Purdue University
Topics include image in

, literary terms, literary theory andools of criticism, as well as reverse outlining, writing a literary analysis presentation, and writing about various forms of literature.

Western World Literature: Criticisms and Resources
Primarily covers Dante, Euripides, Virgil, Homer, Cervantes, Moliere, and Greek and Roman Literature.

Literature Criticism
"The criticism collection includes more than 40,000 full-length or excerpted essays, spanning more than 25 years of literary criticism." from enotes.com

Novelguide
Free source for literary analysis

Literary Criticism - LibrarySpot.com
Links to over 3,300+ critical and biographical sites.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

Eighteenth-Century Studies
Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.

SparkNotes
Provides summaries and study questions for a wide variety of authors.

Pink Monkey.Com
Find over 320 free literature summaries, study guides, and online classic texts. Registration is required.

New York Times : Books
Detailed reviews of new titles, with interviews of authors and bestseller lists.

A Glossary of Literary Criticism
Terms to use in critical analysis of literature created by University of the Cumberlands.

Literary Resources on the Net
This is a searchable and comprehensive guide to author information with some critical links.

A Glossary of Literary Terms
Find definitions of Literary devices, literary elements, literary techniques, and literary terms.