Welcome to the English Literature Guide. This guide is intended to be a tool to assist you in your literary research endeavors and to help strengthen your interpretive skills. It will introduce you to a variety of literary databases and to foundational concepts concerning literary criticism and literary theory.
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Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Literary Criticism Online (LCO) contains full text critical literary commentary from several well-known resources: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism and Short Story Criticism. LCO also links to Gale Literary Index, an index to additional literary compendiums.
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