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=LITERARY CRITICISM=

//What is literary criticism?//
 * Why is literary criticism worth studying? Read this article by Steven Hale, Georgia Perimeter College.
 * Why analyze literature? Read this article by Professor John Lye, Brock University.
 * Literary Analysis.ppt from The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Choose the databases that make the most sense for your particular research. //**Usernames and passwords available for home access at circulation desk and on Google Drive (search passwords in cheltenham.org domain)**//

Databases

 * Bloom's Literary Reference Online
 * Literary Reference Center (full-text criticism, overviews, biography, reviews, author interviews)
 * Literature Resource Center (full-text criticism, overviews, biography)
 * ProQuest Research LibraryProQuest Research Library
 * Virtual Reference Library ( // Poetry for Students //, // Novels for Students // , and other reference sources)
 * Destiny (includes print and eBooks)
 * Student Resources in Context
 * Poetry for Students

Book Reviews

 * //The New York Times// Books (username: cheltenham3; password: panthers)
 * Classic Review Index
 * New York Review of Books
 * The Washington Post:// Chapter One (read the first chapters of selected new books reviewed by //The Washington Post//)
 * Online databases (ProQuest Research Library for reviews from magazines and newspapers)

Free Web

 * Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)/
 * Literary History (index to free articles on English and American literary criticism)
 * Literary Resources on the Net

**The Canterbury Tales**

 * EBK 809.113 POE [|Poetry for Students]
 * REF 809.113 POE Poetry for Students
 * REF 809.113 POE Poetry Criticism
 * REF 809.93 LIT Literature and Its Times
 * REF 820.9 BRI British Writers Classics
 * REF 820.9 MOS British and Irish Literature and Its Times
 * REF 820.9 MOU Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors
 * REF 820.9 CRI The Critical Temper: a Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century
 * 821 REA Readings on the Canterbury Tales
 * 821.09 GEO General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
 * 821.1 CHA Chaucer Crtiticism: The Canterbury Tales
 * 821.1 GEO Geoffrey Chaucer
 * 821.120 CRI Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Shakespeare

 * REF 822.33 SHA Shakespeare for Students