Literary Analysis Help:
University Writing Center: Literary Analysis - JMU – James Madison University has an extremely good page with its own list of links to help people with literary analysis.
Literature – The Writing Center • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (unc.edu) – the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has an excellent guide to writing about fiction.
Guide_to_Asking_Questions_in_Literature.pdf (vanderbilt.edu) – Vanderbilt University has a wonderful PDF about what to ask when you are reading.
Databases:
Some wonderful places to find literary research include:
Gale Literature – “Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.”
Alexander Street Literature – “a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender.”
Scribner Writers Series – “Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.”
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 (H.W. Wilson) – “Provides reviews of over 300,000 books. More than 1.5 million book review citations and indexes more than 500 popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals”
Twayne Author Series – “Offers biographical information and literary criticism about world authors and their notable literary works.”