English: Literary Analysis & Criticism
This guide will support English students throughout their coursework and provide useful resources on literature, poetry, drama, and more!
What is literary criticism?
A literary criticism is not a fault-finding mission. It is a piece that examines a text to obtain a greater understanding or perhaps take a position on a matter. Literary criticism involves critical thinking to gain insights.
Suggested Resources:
- Literature: Gale This link opens in a new window
Offers broad and representative range of authors and their works, including full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
- Bloom's Literary Reference Online This link opens in a new windowA resource for the study of literature. Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom. Includes thousands of critical essays and discussion questions, author biographies, character analyses, full-length poems, and the full text of hundreds of reference books. Also contains full-length videos of classic plays and films, and more.
- Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new windowFull-text literary database covering all genres and time-frames. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems. Also includes the Masterplots series and "Critical Insights" volumes.