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Full length journal, magazine and newspaper articles can be found in our online article collections.


If a book or article cannot be found in PVAMU's resources, it can usually be borrowed from another library. Fill out the Interlibrary Loan form, and please note that it may take several weeks to receive the item.

Find Books

Many of the books on Literature can be found in the P area of the Library on the third floor, and in the Reference area on the first floor. Search the PVAMU Libraries Online Catalog for specific titles or authors. You'll also find useful material in:

• British Writers, V.1 REF PR85.B688
• Guide to British Poetry Explication, V.2: Renaissance REF Z2014.P7M34 1991
• Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism, V.4 REF Z6511.M3 v.4
• Masterplots II: Poetry Series REF PN1110.5M37 1992

Useful Websites

• Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism. http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ The IPL Literary Criticism collections contains critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The Collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness.
• Shakespeare and his Critics. http://shakespearean.org.uk/ A collection of critical essays ranging from 18th and 19th Century criticism of the plays, and descriptions of their performance, to works by Shakespeare.
• Google Directory Reviews and Criticism. 
  http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/
• Internet Public Library - Online Literary Criticism Guide.
  http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html This resource is particularly good for finding information on English-language authors, but also includes many authors whose works have been translated into English.
• Literature Criticism. http://www.enotes.com/guides/cirticism collection includes more than 40,000 full-length or excerpted essays, spanning more than 25 years of literary criticism.
• Open Directory Project: Literature Reviews and Criticism - Theory. 
  http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/Theory/ Literatures Reviews and criticism theory - Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature.
• Librarian's Internet index - Literary Criticism. http://lii.org/pub/subtopic/3033 Essays, lectures, and literary Criticism on many literature genres.
  
  
   

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