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Includes: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
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Short Story Authors
Non-exhaustive list of suggested short story authors from around the world.

Books on Literary Theory can be found in 801.95

or by searching the library catalog with these keywords: literary theory

or by searching the library catalog with this subject search query: su:literature theory

Handbooks on Literature can be found by searching the library catalog with these subject search queries: su:literature terminology; su:literary form terminology

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This is an anthology in progress of writing in English from 1650-1800. Many of the texts have been freshly edited and annotated to provide authoritative and curated editions for the use of students and general readers, and to create an alternative to expensive print anthologies.
This project is open-access, and the texts are available for anyone to use as they wish. We also invite others to join in the project by editing and annotating texts of their own, which can be incorporated in the site to create a free, open-access anthology of reliable works for use in the classroom.
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E-Theses Online Service provides access to the full text of all UK doctoral theses, either via download or digitization-on-demand.
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NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Use the Global ETD search to find electronic theses & dissertation.
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Search Strategies

Author Search

Use the name by which the author is most well known. Search using the author field code (au:) within the Powell catalog search box above.

For example: au:maugham; au:w w jacobs; au:saki

Biography Search

Use the author's name along with the term "biography" within the subject field (su:) to find biographies on an author within the Powell catalog.

For example: su:hemingway biography; su:james joyce biography; su:o henry biography

TIP 1: The more common the last name, the more of the name is needed. For example names like "joyce" and "jacobs" are very common names. To be sure you are getting the author of short stories, include the first name or initials by which s/he is known.

Works Search

To find critical material on a specific work, search the title of the work with the title field code (ti:) or the keyword field (kw=; use the equal sign instead of a colon to treat the title as a phrase) along with the term "criticism" in the subject field.

For example: ti:youth medusa AND su:criticism; ti:dutch courage AND su:criticism; kw=twice told tales AND su:criticism.*

In some instances it may be necessary to include the author along with the title. For example: au:london AND ti:love life AND su:criticism

TIP 2: Using the keyword field will include "collections", "works of" and anthologies that otherwise might be missed because a keyword search searches not only the title field but also the table of contents.

* AND must be in all caps for the search engine to recognize it as a Boolean command instead of the word "and".

E334.1 The Short Story: Short Story Research

Literature Criticism Resources Online

Search Strategies

Short Story Writing & Writers from the Powell Library