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• Short stories republished in novels: Many times a short story has been reproduced in a novel. In order to find criticism on the story, you would need to search for the longer work.

  • For example, for Wildwood by Junot Diaz  you would need to search for criticism on his novel: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

• Works in Translation can pose an issue to researchers. You may need to find out if there are multiple spellings of an author’s name or multiple translations of the title.
  • For Example: The Chinese Classical Novel His-yu Chi, translated as Journey to the West, has also been published as Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China. The author’s name may be spelled as “Wu Chen’en” or “Wu Cheng’en.”
• Quotation marks will force the search engine to search for your exact phrase (or title). Example: “Death of a Salesman”
  • If you were interested in the theme of the “American Dream” in Miller’s play, you might enter a search like “Death of a Salesman” AND “American dream” to narrow the number of results to only those on the theme you are interested in.

If you want to browse the shelves, you'll find books relating to Literature in these ranges:

• 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
• 810 American literature in English
• 820 English and Old English literatures
• 830 German and related literatures
• 840 French and related literatures
• 850 Italian, Romanian and related literatures
• 860 Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures
• 870 Latin and Italic literatures
• 880 Classical and modern Greek literatures
• 890 Other literatures