Find information about a work's characters, plot, and themes. Search by work title or author.
Content: Critical overviews of literature from all cultures and time periods. Includes these popular "for students" resources:
Useful Feature: Each literary work has a summary page to orient you to further themes to explore.
Use these databases to find a variety of literary criticism articles about a work.
Content: summaries of short stories, novels, poems and plays, along with scholarly criticism regarding theme, setting, symbolism, and more.
Content: Searchable database of electronic reference books in literature, history, science, health, and careers. Click the link to jump to a specific series.
Content: A wide range of academic literature, drawing from journal publishers, university repositories, and other scholarly websites. Use the “cited” and “cited by” buttons below the results to view related scholarly literature on a topic.
Access a century's worth of scholarly articles.
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