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Tips for searching databases for literary criticisms

First do a simple search for just the title of your book with "quotations around the title"

Then use the databases filter functions to narrow your results

First see if there is a filter to specify your author's name (important because there are sometimes books with the same name and you need the database to know which one you mean.)

Next find the filter to narrow results by source type: "literary criticism" or "literary analysis"

i.e. NOT biographies, book reviews, overviews, etc

Finally you can add some simple keywords that relate to your thesis to further narrow the results if needed.

Literature Resource Center

See a video tutorial for using Literature Resource Center

See a written with pictures tutorial for using Literature Resource Center

See Video Tutorial for using JSTOR

See written with pictures tutorial for using JSTOR

Bloom's Literature (Temporary database until 06/30/20)

Temporary Database - Available until June 30th, 2020

username: greatvalley

password: facts

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