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Southern Union State Community College Library's Catalog

Literary Criticisms

What are literary criticisms? They are works that evaluate and interpret an author's literature. Reading literary criticisms will help you great with writing your papers for literature class as they show you how to interpret and analyze a piece of literature, as well as weigh different ideas, and make sound judgments about literature.

Below is an example of an eBook on a literary criticism. Using Autographic, you will discover more literary cirticisms in eboks and print form.

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism by Linda Pavlovski
ISBN: 9780787670450
Publication Date: 2004-04-16
This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefaced by an annotation that explains the critics reputation and critical philosophy and providing a synopsis of the excerpt. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Every fourth volume is a Topics volume covering major literary movements, trends and other topics. Volumes include author, nationality, topic and title indexes; a cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately.

ENG 251 Required Readings

The novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe [by] Alice C. Crozier.
PS 2957 .C7 (Book)
Walt Whitman Poems
eBook
The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse
811.1 BRA (Valley Campus)

Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin by Melvin H. Buxbaum
Call Number: E 302.6 .F8 C785 1987 (Book)
ISBN: 0816186995
Publication Date: 1987-08-01
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Call Number: PS 2602 1992 (Book)
ISBN: 0679600078
Publication Date: 1992-09-05
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Call Number: PS 1541 .A1 1997b (Book)
ISBN: 0316184136
Publication Date: 1976-01-30
Critical Insights: Frederick Douglass by Williams, Jericho, editor
Call Number: E449 .D75 F743 2020 (Book) and eBook
ISBN: 9781642656657
Publication Date: 2020-07-10

ENG 251 Recommened Readings

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Works of Cotton Mather
Olaudah Equiano
Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selections from Norton's section "Native Americans: Remoal and Resistance"
Selections from Nathaniel Hawthorne
Works of Margaret Fullet
Selections fro Harriet Jacobs
Selections from Henry David Thoreau
Herman Meliville's "Bartelby, The Scrivner"
Louisa may Alcot's "My Contraband"
Selections from Rebecca Harding Davis