Macdonald-Kelce Library: English Literary Criticism and Theory: Books

To find books in the Macdonald-Kelce Library, start with searching Spartan Search, a discovery system where you are able to cross search books, ebooks, and articles in the databases.

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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide assortment of scholarly resources covering disciplines such as African American studies, language and literature, sociology, philosophy and more.
Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
A range of modern and historical viewpoints on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles and critical essays from academic journals and literary magazine; overviews of literary works; author information, including biographies, biographies and the literary movements.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
This is a humanities focused database that covers scholarly materials on index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present....
International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. Indices to books and articles date back to 1963.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
One of the most comprehensive databases available online. Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.

Full list of Databases

Type in the name of the periodical to see whether the library has it in a database or in print (e.g. New York Times, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vogue)

Spartan Search - Articles

Example of Book Selections for Literary Analysis

Seek out a wide range of sources when writing a literary research paper. Examples of the sources you will cite include:

The original work to be analyzed and researched: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
A collection of essays by the author elaborating on themes in her fiction: Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
A critical overview of the author: Presenting Ursula Le Guin by Suzanne E. Reed
A collection of essays addressing the larger conversation: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Robin Anne Reid (Ed.)
A book on genre theory: Worlds apart : narratology of science fiction by Carl Darryl Malmgren

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Call Number: PS3562.E42 D5 1974, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)
ISBN: 0060125632
Publication Date: 1974-06-01
"A physicist from isolated Anarres travels to the mother planet, Urras, in hopes of dissolving the hatred that exists between them."
Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, women, places by Ursula K. Le Guin
Call Number: PS3562.E42 D36 1990, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)
ISBN: 0060972890
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
Talks, essays, and reviews.
Presenting Ursula Le Guin by Suzanne E. Reed
Call Number: PS3562.E42 Z87 1997, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)
ISBN: 0805746099
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
A critical introduction to the life and work of the science fiction novelist Ursula K. Le Guin. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Robin Anne Reid (Editor)
Call Number: PS374.S35 W63 2009, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)
ISBN: 9780313335891
Publication Date: 2008-12-30
This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music.
Worlds Apart: narratology of science fiction by Carl D. Malmgren
Call Number: PN3433.5 .M35 1991, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)
ISBN: 9780253336453
Publication Date: 1991-07-22
Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.

ebooks

The library has several eBook databases that give you access to works of literary criticism.

ABC-CLIO EBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers world cultures, world history, global issues, sociology, literature, etc.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of ebooks on various subjects including science, technology, medicine, nursing, life sciences, social sciences, and business. Now includes PACKT, SUNY, University of California and Fordham University Press.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Comprises a wide variety of ebooks on topics such as the arts, education, law, medicine, and religion.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Click on "Advanced Search" --> Item Type: "Books" to get eBooks and eBook chapters on a wide array of subject matter.

Using Interlibrary Loan

Search WorldCat or Google Scholar for items worldwide.

If you cannot access the article or book from our library, consider making an Interlibrary loan request. See the Interlibrary Loan guide below for more information.

Article/Book Request Form
Form to manually enter book or article requests. You must sign in with your UT login
View Requests

Email questions about requests to ILLRequest@ut.edu
Interlibrary Loan Guide
Google Scholar
A great place to start research that includes many UT databases. (PDF Handout Notes)

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English Literary Criticism and Theory

Example of Book Selections for Literary Analysis

ebooks