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Sources for Literary Criticism
Abbreviation Title Call Number
American Women Writers PS 147 .A4
American Writers PS 129 .A55
American Writers Before 1800 PS 185 .A4 1983
BLC Black Literature Criticism PS 153 .N5 B556 1992
BLCS Black Literature Criticism Supplement PS 153 .N5 B556 1999
Book Review Digest PAC Indexes
CLC Contemporary Literary Criticism PN 771 .C59
CMLC Classical & Medieval Lit. Criticism PN 610 .C537
Critical Survey of Drama PR 623 .C75 1985
Critical Survey of Poetry PR 502 .C85 1992
Critical Survey of Short Fiction PN 3321 .C7
DC Drama Criticism PN 1601 .D59
HLC Hispanic Literature Criticism PQ 7081 .A1 H573
HLCS Hispanic Literature Criticism Supplement PQ 7081 .A1 H5732 1999
LC Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 PN 86 .L56
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama PN 1625 .M3 1984
NCLC Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism PN 761 .N5
NNAL Native North American Literature PS 508.15 .N38 1994
PC Poetry Criticism PN 1010 .P6
SC Shakespearean Criticism PR 523 .W67 1992
SSC Short Story Criticism PN 3373 .S386
TCLC Twentieth Century Literary Criticism PN 771 .G27
WLC World Literature Criticism 1500 to Present PN 523 .W67 1992
WLCS World Literature Criticism Supplement PN 523 .W67 1

Indexes

Title Call Number
American Drama Criticism PS 332 .A43
Articles on American Literature, 1900-1975 PS 88 .L493
Book Review Digest Index Tables 1st Floor
Dramatic Criticism Index PN 2189 .B8
English Novel Explication Supplements PR 821 .E54
Greek and Roman Authors PA 3001 .G9
Literary Criticism Index PN 523 .W45
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication PN 3373 .W33

Online Databases

To access the Palo Alto College Library Databases from OFF CAMPUS go to the library homepage <www.accd.edu/pac/htm/Current/resources/library> and click on Off-Campus Database Access under the Research Tool heading. Follow the instructions to log in. Go to the letter "L" and click on Literature Resource Center. Other good databases include Literature Criticism Online, Academic Search Complete, and ProQuest.

Online Catalog

Use a Subject Search:
Example: American literature--History and Criticism or Cricism, or Author's Last Name

Use Keyword Search:

Example: literary criticism or literature and criticism or Author's Last Name and Criticism.

Revised 8/11/08 A. Bolton-Brownlee

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