To find Books which Include Criticism on an Author
Search the Catalog for Subject Keyword : “Author's Last Name, First Name and Criticism"
For example: “Gordimer, Nadine and criticism”
Scan the hyperlinked subject headings appearing in the individual book records. You can use these to narrow more precisely on your topic.
Some book records provide the names of essays within the book. For instance, Writing the City: Urban Visions & Literary Modernism lets you know that the articles are: “Saxa Loquuntur": the modernist city -- Dubliners: the city betrayed -- Grave memories: the epitaphic consciousness of "The dead" -- The metropolitan consciousness of A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Ulysses and Manhattan transfer: a poetics of transatlantic literary modernism.
You may have to narrow these searches! A search for “Joyce, James and criticism” by Subject Keyword yields 216 results. Shakespeare would return even more!
Using the electronic Subject Guide:
From the library homepage, click onthe link toSubject Guides(Pirate Source),which is our subject guide database.
Select Literature—Poetry as your subject, and then select the types of information you need.
Pirate Source will lead you to selected starting points for research!
If you need Articles:
MLAIB: This is the most important database for English Language and Literature, as well as folklore, foreign literatures, and linguistics.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index: This is not a full text database, but you can follow the links to look for full text availability. Reminder: do NOT hit “return” when you key in a command; you’ll be kicked out to the start page. You must click on search button.
American Humanities Index: this index contains bibliographic references to over 700 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. All journals are indexed in their entirety (cover to cover). This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. American Humanities Index is a unique collection, providing in-depth coverage in areas of the humanities not covered in other databases.
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serial Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
What if the article I want is not available full-text online?
If the article is not available online, you can check the Joyner Library catalog or the Laupus Health Sciences catalog to see if it is held in printed form. The button does this for you automatically from within databases. If you live within Pitt County you would need to come to the library to make a copy of the article. If you are a distance learning student living outside of Pitt County, you can have articles copied and sent to you, using Interlibrary Lending.
Citation Linker: If you already have a citation from someone else’s bibliography and want to find out if we have that article, key it into the Citation Linker. When you click the Find IT! Button at the bottom of the page, you will generate an menu of options that works like the one described above.
If the library subscribes to electronic access, the database offering access will be named near the bottom of the page.
If the library does not subscribe to electronic access, the message will read: “Nothing found? Try these tips.”
If the library does not have access to the years you need, click the “Search the Joyner Library Catalog” button near the top right of the screen to see if we have print copies.
To Get Help:
Come to the Reference Desk or call us at (252) 328- 6677
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