The Clermont College Library webpage can be accessed at: http://www.ucclermont.edu/library. Subject guides may be found on the Library’s web page under “Research Help.” If you are not on campus, use the 'Off Campus Access' link on the Library's website to login and validate that you are a member of the Clermont College Community.
Articles, Indexes and Databases
Literature Resource Center (LRC) (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucinc_main?db=LitRC) Includes Gale’s Contemporary Authors Online; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. The database also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series.
Literature Online (LION)(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://lion.chadwyck.com/) A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 128 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Oxford Reference, Online (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html) The Core Collection is a comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.
The Clermont College Library has a variety of criticism collections, summaries, and literary biography sources available in the P section of the reference collection, for example:
Shakespeare for students, book 11 REF PR2987 .W468 Critical Survey of Poetry REF PN1021 .C7 Short Story Criticism REF PN3373 .S35 Critical Survey of Long Fiction REF PN3451 .C75
To find books of criticism of a particular author's works, check the online catalog (http://uclid.uc.edu/search/x) using the author's name as a KEYWORD search, for example:
From the results, identify an item that is the most relevant to your topic, then identify the SUBJECT heading: Walker, Alice, 1944--Criticism and interpretation. This heading will yield more focused results.
You may limit your location to “Clermont." However, be aware that this may eliminate important resources that could easily be borrowed from another UC Library or other academic libraries from across the state.
Web Resources
Spaces are ‘_’s in web addresses.
Internet Public Library Literary Criticism (http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/) See also the Criticism Pathfinder and Guide at this location.
