Literary Criticism and AnalysisSources in the DLS Library and on the Web

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• Literary Criticism and Analysis/Sources in the
  DLS Library and on the Web

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What is literary analysis?

• It involves literature
• It analyzes
• It discusses
• It presents a point of view/a thesis
• It presents supporting material
• It always involves research

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The Vocabulary of literary analysis

• Writing and analyzing a work of literature
  requires using certain terms and concepts that
  are related to the study of literary works of
  significant merit, e.g. figures of speech,
  language

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Important Terms in Literary Analysis
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Literary Analysis

• Become familiar with literary terms
• Choose to analyze and discuss specific parts of
  the novel
• Make a thesis statement
• Support your statement with quotations
• and secondary source materials

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Dictionaries of Literary Terms

• Using library print materials for your assignment

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How to locate materials to support the thesis
statement of your research paper

• Direct quotations from the novel
• Using works of literary criticism
• Finding information about the historical and
  social time when the work was written

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Using Secondary Sources for literary analysis and
criticism

• Books that discuss the novel in detail
• Scholarly journal articles
• Books and/or journal articles that describe and
  discuss the social and historical context of the
  novel

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http//www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion
_map/
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Lions of American Literature
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Literary criticism and analysis
http//www.visuwords.com
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• In the finest critics one hears the full cry of
  the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
• Harold Bloom

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The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains
critical and biographical websites about authors
and their works that can be browsed by author, by
title, or by nationality and literary period.

• http//www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

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Literary CriticismWhat is literary criticism?
How do I find it?
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Author Guides

• http//www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit/authors.html

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A Virtual Library of Useful URLsArranged by
Dewey Decimal Classification800 Literature

• http//www.aresearchguide.com/800literature.html

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• 810 American literature
• Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web).
  American Literature Web Resources Contents
  Basics (Glossary of Literary Terms, Basic
  Elements of Fiction and Poetry), Major Site
  Reviews, Global Resources (American Writing
  Gateway, American Literature OnLine, Norton
  WebSource to American Literature, etc.), American
  Literature Syllabi, Author Chronologies,
  Biography Information A-Z, and Internet Links.
• 813 Fiction, (Novels), American fiction, Short
  stories, Animals - Fiction, Mystery fiction,
  Adventure fiction, Fantasy fiction, Ghost
  stories, Historical fiction, Science fiction, War
  stories, (Crime stories), (Detective and mystery
  stories), (Murder mysteries), (Suspense novels),
  (Whodunits)
• Fiction from Bartleby.com. Keyword Search box.
  List of fiction titles include John Buchan's
  Thirty-nine Steps, F. Scott Fitzgerald's This
  Side of Paradise, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet
  Letter, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Robert
  Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
  Mr. Hyde, J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western
  World, H.G. Wells's Invisible Man, Island of
  Doctor Moreau, Time Machine, War of the Worlds,
  and many more.
• Fiction Sites. Links to Fiction Web sites
  infinity plus (science fiction, fantasy, horror,
  new fiction, features, reviews), Webring of
  Imaginary Countries, S. Fowler Wright Archive
  (over 6,000,000 words of this poet computerised),
  Fright Library (short fiction and novels),
  Alexandria Digital Literature (Marketplace
  Library), Fictionwise.com (e-books with
  descriptions and samples), and E-Book Publishers.

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• American Literature Web Resources
• Global Resources
• http//www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/global.html

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American Literature

• http//vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id2739

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Literary Resources American

• http//andromeda.rutgers.edu/jlynch/Lit/american.
  html

• http//andromeda.rutgers.edu/jlynch/Lit/american.
  html

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Resources for Literary Criticisma review

• Books
• Articles
• Videos
• Podcasts, e.g. NPR.ORG PBS.ORG
• Scholarly journals
• Author interviews
• Michigan Electronic Library
• Specific web sites devoted to the study of
  American Literature

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