Short Story Criticism
How to Use this Guide
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This guide will link you to databases or the
online catalog when you click on the links
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items that are linked will have this hand
symbol
Books available in the library have also
been listed .
Finding Short Story Reviews &
Criticism
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This guide is designed to help you locate
short story reviews & criticism using these
resources:
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Electronic Databases
Books (reference & general collection)
Websites
Selected Electronic Databases
(click on a database name to search that database)
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Electronic databases
may be
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full text
citation only
combination of full text
& citations
JSTOR (full text)
LION (full text)
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Project MUSE (full
text)
Magill OnLiterature
(full text)
Literature
Resource Center
(full text)
Selected Books (reference & general
collection)
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PS374 .S5 F33 2000
„ The Facts on File companion
to the American short story
(REFERENCE)
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(REFERENCE)
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PN3321 .C7 2001
„ Critical survey of short fiction
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(REFERENCE)
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PN3373 .S398 1997
„ Short story writers
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(REFERENCE)
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PS374 .S5 C57 2000
„ The Columbia companion to
the twentieth-century
American short story
(REFERENCE)
PN3373 .S386
„ Short story criticism
PS648 .S5 A49 1989
„ American short story
masterpieces (STACKS)
PQ7081 .A1 M29 1994
„ Masterpieces of Latino
literature (REFERENCE)
PQ7081 .A1 L37 1989
„ Latin American writers
(REFERENCE)
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PS153 .A84 A03 2000
„ Asian American women
writers (STACKS)
PS153 .A84 A84 1999
„ Asian-American writers
(STACKS)
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PS374 .S5 C57 2000
„ The Columbia companion to
the twentieth-century
American short story
(REFERENCE)
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PS153 .A84 M3 1998 EB
„ Immigrant subjectivities in
Asian American and Asian
Diaspora literatures (E-BOOK)
PS153 .I52 N387 1998
„ Native American writers
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(REFERENCE)/(STACKS)
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PS153 .I52 K78 1989 EB
„ The voice in the margin (EBOOK)
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PS508 .I5 V4 1982
„ Four American Indian literary
masters : N. Scott Momaday,
James Welch, Leslie Marmon
Silko, and Gerald Vizenor
(STACKS)
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PS647 .A35 C35 1993
„ Calling the wind : twentieth
century African-American
short stories (BLKSTUDY)
PS647 .A35 U53 1993
„ The Unforgetting heart : an
anthology of short stories by
African American women,
1859-1993 (STACKS)
PS647 .A35 B57 1990
„ Black-eyed Susans/Midnight
birds : stories by and about
Black women (STACKS)
Locating Information on Short
Stories in Books
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Once you have found a book that interests you, you may
still need to determine that book’s contents.
To locate information on an author or short story…Use
the
„ Index (back of the book)
„ Table of Contents (front of the book)
Many books will have an Author index, Title index or
both.
„ Using these tools will make locating necessary
information easier and quicker.
On Your Own: Finding Books on
Your Topic
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Use the Online Catalog [WALNET] by searching
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Subject (find information on the topic of Short Stories
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Type “short stories”
Click the SUBJECT button
Author (find information on a short story author)
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Type the author’s name
Click the AUTHOR button OR the SEARCH EVERYTHING
BUTTON
Where to Find Information on
Selected Authors (continues to next page)
AUTHOR ETHNICITY SHORT STORIES DATABASES TO
USE
READ ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Louise
Erdrich
(female)
Native
American
„The
Red
Convertible
„Literature
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Chinua
Achebe
(male)
Nigerian
„The
„Literature
Sacrificial
Egg and Other
Stories
„African Short
Stories
„Akueke
Resource
Center
„Contemporary
Authors
„Project MUSE
Resource
Center
„Contemporary
Authors
„JSTOR
Contemporary
Literary
Criticism, vols.
39, 54, 120, 176.
Contemporary
Literary
Criticism, vols.
1,3,5,7,11,26,51,
75, 127, 152.
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AUTHOR
ETHNICITY
SHORT
STORIES
DATABASES TO
USE
READ ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Toni Cade
Bambara
(female)
African
American
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The Lesson
„ Gorilla, My
Love
„ The Apprentice
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Literature
Resource Center
„ Contemporary
Authors
„ Project MUSE
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Shirley
Jackson
(female)
American
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The Lottery
„ The Tooth
„ The Villager
„ The Flower
Garden
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Literature
Resource Center
„ Contemporary
Authors
„ Project MUSE
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Isabel
Allende
(female)
Hispanic
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Dos Palabras
(Two Words)
„ Clarisa
„ Our Secret
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Contemporary
Authors
„ Project MUSE
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Contemporary
Literary
Criticism, vol.
19, 88.
Contemporary
Literary
Criticism, vol.
11, 60, 87.
Contemporary
Literary
Criticism, vols.
39, 57, 97, 170,
264 .
Websites (selected authors)
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Isabel Allende
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Shirley Jackson
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www.isabelallende.com
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Shirley_Jackson#Life
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www.motherjones.com/mot
her_jones/SO94/allende.ht
ml
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http://www.courses.vcu.edu
/ENG-jkh/
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http://www.americanliteratu
re.com/Jackson/SS/TheLot
tery.html
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http://collaboratory.nunet.n
et/goals2000/Eddy/Allende/
Resources.html
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http://www.emory.edu/ENG
LISH/Bahri/Allende.html
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Chinua Achebe
sites
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http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=ach255
Toni Cade Bambara
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatu
cci/classes/hum211/acheb
e.htm
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http://www.bellaonline.com/
articles/art6999.asp
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http://voices.cla.umn.edu/v
g/Bios/entries/bambara_to
ni_cade.html
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http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resourc
es/literature/toni-cadebambara
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Louise Erdrich
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http://www.ipl.org/div/nata
m/bin/browse.pl/A30
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http://www.english.illinois.e
du/MAPS/poets/a_f/erdrich/
erdrich.htm
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Hopefully this guide
has been helpful in
your research.
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If you have any more
questions, please see
a librarian.