Skip to Main Content
Ask Us!Toggle Chat Widget

ENGL 2020: Themes in Literature and Culture: Home

Literature Criticism

Recommended Resources for Literature Criticism

Word Definitions, Spellings, and Histories

xx

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the guide to the meaning, history, pronunciation, and variant spellings of words, both present and past.

Need to find the earliest references to a word or phrase like "used up"? Need to understand how a word was defined in a particular time period?  Then this source is for you!

Short Story Criticism

Start your search in the Literature Resource Center or Short Story Criticism.  If you cannot find anything, search the library catalog for a country and short stories or an author and short stories.  Make sure the book contains criticism and not just a collection of stories.

MLA Formatting and style guide

Poetry Criticism

Drama criticism