Searching Literary Sources (database)

Gale Literature helps you discover:

• scholarly criticism in journal articles (full-text)
• scholarly criticism in book chapters (full-text)
• criticism in the areas of literary theory, literary criticism, folklore, linguistics, drama, rhetoric, and composition
• book reviews
• encyclopedia and dictionary entries for background information
• multiple Gale resources in one search, including:
  • Literature Resource Center (database)
  • Contemporary Authors (biographical information and literary criticism summaries)
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism (literary criticism excerpts)
  • Something About the Author (children's author/illustrator biographical information)

Basic Searching

Enter keywords in the search box at the top of the screen. Examples of searches may include:

• Hemingway and gender
• "For whom the bell tolls"

Advanced Searching

Buttons across the top of the screen provide a simple PERSON (author), WORKS (creative work), and TOPIC search.

In order to mix-and-match and target specific types of searching, the Advanced search boxes allow searching in the following specific FIELDS (see pull-down menu pictured).

• BASIC or KEYWORD  =  Searches all fields of the record
• NAME OF THE WORK  =  Enter the TITLE of the creative work (novel, poem, story) you wish to research
• PERSON-BY or ABOUT  =  Enter the AUTHOR's name, i.e. who wrote the creative work

Buttons across the top of the screen also provide a simple PERSON (author), WORKS (creative work), and TOPIC search.