Literary+Criticism


 * Literary Criticism**


 * Teacher:**
 * [|Mrs. Marie Slim]


 * Authors are the "Movers and Shakers" of their generation!** What do critics believe about the themes of an author's work? What kind of analysis do they attach to a piece of literature? Check out Literary Criticism to find out the "deeper meanings" and analysis.


 * Online Research Databases with Literary Criticism:**

Gale Discovering Collection - - Use Gale Student Resources in Context password: warriors http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/full19951?id=full_log%20 Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips.

Password is embedded in the URL. Password from home: **warriors**

Access from home or at the public library. Use your own library card or ask Mrs. Slim to help you with her library cards!
 * //Public Libraries with Literary Criticism Databases://**

Fullerton Public Library - Literary Reference Center by EBSCO Check out their Literary Criticism Guide at http://www.fullertonlibrary.org/yablog/?page_id=1837

Yorba Linda Public Library - MagillOnLiterature Plus - Click on "Online Services" off the home page. Put in your Library Card number, then click on Books/Reading tab.

Los Angeles Public Library - Literature Resource Center

Whittier Public Library - Literary Reference Center AND Literature Resource Center

Orange County Public Library - Literature Resource Center


 * Slim-Approved Websites:**

Online Literary Criticism Collection www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ Links to online sources of biography, bibliography, and criticism about major authors and works written worldwide. Focus is on American and British authors. Some of the links are not for very good info, so beware!

Online Literary Criticism Guide http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html A guide to finding criticism on the web.

PBS.org Use the search tool in the upper-righthand corner to look up your author. Not especially good for literary criticism, but good for some biographical information on some authors.


 * Regular Internet:**

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide A research guide on American Authors. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html The author is Paul P. Reuben, PhD from California State University, Stanislaus. Not a very good source for literary criticism, as some of the sites are written by CSU Stanislaus students. However, Slim likes the main page because it shows where American Authors fall in terms of eras.


 * Web evaluation:** @http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

troyhigh.com vs. troyhs.com

Bad? @http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm

Wikipedia? Princess Mabel edits own entry

Spark Notes? Bad!

Pink Monkey? Bad!

Library's Web OPAC Use this resource to find print sources in the library!
 * Print:**

Index to Troy High School's Print Gale Literary Criticism http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex Use this index to find information in the Gale series of literary criticism. The books are located in the Reference Area of the library. This is an index only!

TROY HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY - LITERARY CRITICISM

Criticism: Critical Survey of Long Fiction REF 809.3 Critical Contemporary Literary Criticism * REF 809 Contemporary Shakespearean Criticism * 822.33 Coleridge Modern American Literature REF 810.9 Schlueter A Library of Literary Criticism: modern American literature REF 810.9 Curley, 810.9 Nyren A Library of Literary Criticism: modern British literature REF 820.9 Temple The Critical Temper REF 820.9 Tucker Modern British Literature REF 820.9 Temple Hispanic Literature Criticism* REF 860.9 Hispanic World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the present REF 809 World Critical Survey of Poetry REF 809.1 Critical

Criticism and Biographical Material: American Writers* REF 810.9 American British Writers* REF 820.9 British Latin American Writers* REF 860.9 Latin Hispanic-American Writers 810.9 Hispanic-american Black Writers* 810 Major Contemporary Authors REF 920 Contemporary Drama for Students * REF 809.2 Drama Epics for Students * REF 809.1 Epics Poetry for Students * REF 808 Poetry Novels for Students * REF 809.3 Novels Shakespeare for Students * REF 822.33 Shakespeare

Summaries/Specific Genres (Includes some criticism) Masterplots REF 808.8 Magill - LOTS (Slim look up) Survey of Contemporary Literature REF 808.8 Magill Critical Survey of Drama REF 822.009 Critical Masterplots II Short Story Series REF 809.8 Magill - LOTS (Slim look up)

Some English Language Arts Standards Supported:

R3.7a Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors that contrast the major literary forms, techniques, and characteristics of the major literary periods (e.g., Homeric Greece, medieval, romantic, neoclassic, modern).

R3.7b Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors that relate literary works and authors to the major themes and issues of their eras.

R3.7c Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors that Evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social influences of the historical period that shaped the characters, plots, and, settings.


 * University Library Databases: (not accessible offsite)**

CSUF Databases http://www.library.fullerton.edu/asp/databasesAZ.aspx

USC Databases http://www.usc.edu/libraries/erms/databases/index.php UCLA Databases - Letter "L" @http://www2.library.ucla.edu/search/622.cfm?su=0&ty=2,65&ix=bl&al=L

Hufferd: Dec. 2007 - Anna Karenina, Scarlet Letter, Frankenstein, Brothers K (Brat'ya Karamazovy), Madame Bovary, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and The Color Purple

Platt: Waiting for Godot: Jan. 2009

Snipes: Waiting for Godot, Great Gatsby,