Literary Criticism

20th Century Poetry

English and American Poetry

• Many of the major themes of 20th century writing -- nationality, politics, war, sexuality, religion and gender -- can be understood anew through this vast and representative collection
• The Imagists, Beat Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain and Deep Image schools are all featured

Book Review Digest Plus

Brings together book reviews on subjects such as art, biography, business, education, general interest, history, humanities, literature, music and more with coverage back to 1983.

Content Includes:

• A citation to every book review that appears in any of over 5,000+ indexed journals
• Over 2 million review citations, many with generous excerpts, from review sources such as newspapers, popular magazines, and academic journals with more than 118,000 new reviews added each year
• “Master” records for each book, with links to reviews from various sources
• Retrospective coverage as far back as 1983
• Over 270,000 full text reviews from more than 1,400 American, British, and Canadian periodicals
• Coverage of books for children with a suggested grade range

Drama for Students (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Gale Virtual Reference titles are:

• Popular reference titles in a digital ebook format
• Cross-searchable and print as PDF's
• No need to checkout and no waiting

Essay & General Literature Index

Cites records in collections of essays and works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada dating back to 1985 and spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences.

Content Includes:

• Nearly 86,000 essays found in over 7,000 printed anthologies and collections
• Coverage dating as far back as 1985

Gale Books and Authors

• Provides students with research resources on authors and literature.

Gale Literature Criticism

Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Gale Literature: Criticism. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.

• Contemporary Literary Criticism vol. 1 (1973) - vol. 445 (2019)
• Drama Criticism vol. 1 (1991) - vol. 60 (2019)
• Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism vol. 1 (1981) - vol. 368 (2019)
• Poetry Criticism vol. 1 (1991) - vol. 212 (2019)
• Shakespearean Criticism vol. 1 (1984) - vol. 187 (2019)
• Short Story Criticism vol .1 (1988) - vol. 270 (2019)
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism vol. 1 (1978) - vol. 375 (2019)

Gale Literary Index

• Gale has integrated Literature Resources from Gale and Literature Criticism Online into a single research environment. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

Gale Literature e-Books

Writers and their works from around the world. Includes all the For Students reference books plus American, British, African, European and Latin writers.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, specialized reference tools and informational resources that all ages can benefit from using. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely from home or school 24/7.

• Popular reference and informational titles in a digital eBook format
• Cross-searchable and printable as PDF's
• No need to checkout – just use it
• No waiting – unlimited simultaneous access

  Gale Virtual Reference Tutorial

Gale Literature Scribner Writer Series

• Includes biographical and critical essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 authors.

Gale Literature Twayne's Author Series

• Contains text of Twayne's Literary Masters books on individual US, world, or English authors.
• Literary Criticism

Humanities Full-Text

This database provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and much more in all fields of the humanities from art, classical studies, and film to journalism and more.

• Full-text articles from over 330 journals
• High-quality indexing of nearly 700 periodicals
• Periodical coverage dating as far back as 1910

Literary Reference Center

Provides information on thousands of authors and their works through an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries, poems, short stories, author interviews and more.

Content Includes:

• More than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
• Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
• More than 252,000 author biographies
• 450 literary journals
• More than 693,000 book reviews
• More than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems
• More than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories
•  More than 6,600 author interviews

Novels for Students (Gale Virtual Reference)

Easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of works from various cultures and time periods.

• Student friendly: Homework help format, w/ criticism at H.S. students' interest and reading levels,
• Reader friendly: For patrons interested in more info on the classics or bestsellers they're reading,
• Beginning with volume 32, each volume will include "Literature to Film" entries profiling film versions of plays/novels

Gale Virtual Reference titles are:

• Popular reference titles in a digital ebook format
• Cross-searchable and print as PDF's
• No need to checkout and no waiting

Play Index

Covers over 31,000 classic and historical plays dating from 1949, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from famous playwrights

Poetry for Students (Gale Virtual Reference)

A quick but information-rich reference source, each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 15-16 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.

• An overview essay on the poem.
• An analysis of the work's construction and form.
• An examination of key themes addressed in the poem.
• A discussion of the historical and cultural context in which the poem was composed.
• Selected criticism on the poem or poet.
• A brief author biography.
• Other features include a list of sources for further study and suggested research topics.

Gale Virtual Reference titles are:

• Popular reference titles in a digital ebook format
• Cross-searchable and print as PDF's
• No need to checkout and no waiting
   

Short Stories for Students  (GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE)

Each biannual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.

Each illustrated entry contains:

• concise synopses of the story's plot, characters and themes
• a brief author biography
• a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance
• excerpted criticism geared specifically toward the high school student
• Researchers will also find information on media adaptations of the story, discussion questions, and suggestions on what to read next.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) titles are:

• Popular reference titles in a digital ebook format
• Cross-searchable and print as PDF's
• No need to checkout and no waiting Short Stories for Students (GVRL)
• Popular reference titles in a digital ebook format
• Cross-searchable and print as PDF's
• No need to checkout and no waiting

Short Story Index

This database is an essential resource for readers seeking short stories by author or genre, or for those researching a body of work of a literary figure. It provides detailed indexing for hundreds of thousands of short stories.

Content Includes:

• Detailed indexing of more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies
• Full text for nearly 5,000 stories
• Coverage dating as far back as 1984

Something About the Author Online

An award-winning reference series started in 1971, Something About the Author examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. It includes not only well-known writers and artists but also less prominent individuals whose works are just coming to be recognized and is often the only readily available source on emerging authors and illustrators. Something About the Author Online also includes hundreds of original specially commissioned autobiography essays that have never been available online until now. These truly unique essays average about 10,000 words in length; are illustrated with an abundance of personal photos; and present an entertaining and informative first-person perspective on the lives and careers of prominent authors and illustrators.