Finding
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
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Electronic
Resources
(search hint - combine author's name and/or book
title in quotes with the "book review" or just "review")
- Expanded
Academic Index
Book
Review Digest
Literary
Index (For Literary Criticism)
MLA
(For Literary Criticism)
Omni
File
PCI
(Use for works published between 1770 and 1980)
Subject specific database
- Some of our subject databases index book reviews.
To be sure, do a keyword search for "book review".
Print Resources
located on the index tables -- use for older works
(search hint - start with the year the book was published and work
your way forward a few years)
Book Review Index
(indexed by book's author)
Book Review Digest (indexed by book's author, has excerpts)
Index to Book Reviews in Religion (indexed by book's author)
History: Review of New Books (grey author index in back of each
bound volume)
Readers Guide (back of each volume starting in 1976)
So
What's the Difference Between a Book Review and Literary Criticism?
Almost any book can have a book review about it published, although
not all of them do. You may find book reviews of fiction and nonfiction,
scholarly and popular works. The reviews may vary in length from a
couple of sentences to several pages. Literary criticism, one the
other hand, is a more in-depth analysis of the work, including more
interpretation and evaluation.
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more hints
more sources (CLC, TCLC, NCLC...)
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