Director of the Liaison Program
Research & Engagement
Searching for Commentary and Criticism
You can also find literary criticism on your author or work using Advanced OneSearch by performing a subject search with this formula:
You can do a keyword search for the name of the person, but a more focused way to search for critical sources is to choose "Library Catalog" at the top of the search page, choose "Subject" from the drop down list, and then put the name of the person in the search box in this format "LastName, FirstName" (ex. "Allende, Isabel") and then choose "Subject" on the next line and put in the term "Criticism and Interpretation".
The results will be all the materials we have in the library that are about that author and his or her works. Some of those materials may be a single-authored book about the topic, some of them may be edited volumes, where each chapter has a different author.
In addition, you can search for criticism and commentary on these authors and texts using the following article databases. MLA International Bibliography covers literature generally, while the other two cover the scholarship of the Classical era and the Medieval era respectively.
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MLA international bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides a subject, author, and title index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
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L'année philologique This link opens in a new window
Provides an index to materials in the field of Classical Studies covering especially topics in Greco-Roman history and civilization, archaeology, language and literature.
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Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Indexes research on the middle ages and renaissance (400 - 1700) in journals, books, conference papers, catalogs, discographies, and dissertations.
