7th ed. MLA Examples for Literary Criticism Resources
Print Reference Resources
Short Stories for Students, Poetry for Students, Novels for Students, Drama For Students,
Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism:
 Material without an author—
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Short Stories for Students. Ed.
Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 16-24. Print.
 Material with an author—
Korb, Rena. “Children of the Sea.” Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 1. Detroit:
Gale, 1997. 39-42. Print.
 Excerpted articles: (source will usually state excerpted from)
Schmidt, Paul. “The Deadpan on Simon Wheeler.” Southwest Review 41.3 (1956): 270-77. Excerpt
from Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 29-31. Print.
 Reprint of article or essay previously published in a book with a different title:
Bell-Villada, Gene H. “The Master of Short Forms.” Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work. Chapel
Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990. 119-36. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen
Wilson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 89-90. Print.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography
(CDALB)
Blake, Susan L. “Toni Morrison.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Fiction Writers
After 1955. Eds. Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris. Vol. 33. Detroit: Gale, 1984. 187202. Print.
MasterPlots
Barth, Melissa E. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Masterplots II: Short Story Series. Ed. Charles May.
Rev. ed. Vol. 8. Pasadena: Salem, 1996. 4722-24. Print.
Scribners British Writers, Scribners American Writers
Winks, Robin W. “Agatha Christie.” British Writers. Ed. George Stade. Supplement II. New
York: Scribners, 1992. 123-37. Print.
Electronic Subscription Resources
Ebsco Academic Search Premier Database via NC Live
 Scholarly/Academic Journal
McDonald, Hal. "Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning.’" Explicator 61.1 (2002): 46-48.
Academic Search Premier. Web. 9 Apr. 2003.
Thomson Gale Literature Resource Center
 Essay from the electronic version of Short Stories for Students
Akers, Donald. “Overview of ‘A Rose for Emily.’” Short Stories for Students. Gale, 1999.
N. pag. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Apr. 2003.
Humy, Nicholas Peter. “A Different Responsibility: Form and Technique in G. Paley's ‘A
Conversation with My Father.'" Delta May 1982: 87-92. Rpt. in Short Stories
for Students. Vol. 3. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Mar. 2006.
 Essay excerpted from a journal
Davis, William V. “Another Flower for Faulkner’s Bouquet: Theme and Structure in ‘A Rose
for Emily.’” Notes on Mississippi Writers 7.2 (1974): 34-8. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 9 Apr. 2003.
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Essay from a journal reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism and viewed in Thomson
Gale’s Literature Resource Center.
Rozga, Margaret. "Threatening Places, Hiding Places: The Midwest in Selected Stories by
Joyce Carol Oates." Midwestern Miscellany. 18 (1990): 34-44. Rpt. in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Mar. 2006.
Books from the General Collection
 Critical Essays on American Literature Series
Bryant, J.A., Jr. “Seeing Double in ‘The Golden Apples.’” Sewanee Review 82 (1974):
300-15. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Eudora Welty. Eds. W. Craig Turner
and Lee Emling Harding. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989. 142-53. Print. Critical Essays on
American Literature.
 Twayne’s United States Authors Series
Gerber, Philip L. Robert Frost. Ed. Kenneth Eble. Rev. ed. Boston: Twayne, 1982. Print. Twayne’s US
Authors Ser. 107.
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