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Literary Criticism

Learn how to find critical scholarship related to a literary work, author, or literary movement using Pierce's print and electronic resources.

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Literary Criticism Books in the Library

Open at the Close: literary essays on Harry Potter book cover
Jesmyn Ward: new critical essays book cover art
Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's trans tales and other astounding adventures in sex and gender book cover art
Divine Might: goddesses in Greek myth book cover art
Juliet: the life and afterlives of Shakespeare's first tragic heroine book cover art
The Border and the Line: race, literature, and Los Angeles book cover
Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century book cover art
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies book cover art
The Source of Self-Regard book cover
Beasts at Bedtime: revealing the environmental wisdom in children's literature book cover
Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan's Fiction
Shakespeare and Gender book cover
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature book cover
Dark fantastic
Women of will