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A criticism is an interpretation, or a way of looking at a novel, story or poem. Here are suggested resources to use for your own assignment.

Premium Sites
- Literature Criticism OnlineGet critiques of authors and their works. Online versions of Contemporary Literary Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism.
- Literature Resource CenterFind full-text articles from scholarly journals, critical essays, work and topic overviews, literary movements. Plus book reviews, biographies and author or works information. Covers both classic and contemporary literature in all genres.
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Literary Criticism eBooks by Harold Bloom
Find criticism on Shakespeare, Hemingway and other authors.
Websites
- ipl2 Literary Criticism CollectionExplore critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. Browse by author, title, nationality, or literary period
- MIT: Literature ResourcesArranged by period and genre, these are literature sites selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology literature department
- Writing a Literary AnalysisThis slideshow outlines advice on understanding and then writing various elements of a literary analysis. Created by Gayla Keesee, a Ph.D. Candidate at Walden University
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