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Getting Started Guide: Literary Criticism: Databases

finding literary criticism

English: Literature Databases

Database Searching

Tip:  If you are getting too many results from a search

  • Try putting quotation marks around the title, for example:

"The Kitchen God's Wife" instead of The Kitchen God's Wife.

  • Try adding the author's last name to the search, for example:

"The Kitchen God's Wife" AND Tan

 

Tip:  If you are getting too few results from a search

  • Try searching only part of the title, for example:

If the exact book title is Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe then try searching for just the main title Silas Marner 

  • Try leaving out punctuation - especially semicolons, periods, and commas
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