Literary Criticism 

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 UCSB Library catalog

A good way to begin searching any catalog is by using a keyword search. Depending on the nature of your search, you may want to use terms such as criticism or interpretation. Examples:

• keyword: American slave poetry crit* (the * symbol brings up alternate endings of the word)
• keyword: Female or women writer* and medieval England
• keyword: Crit* Persuasion Austen

Subject searches in the library catalog require a very precise vocabulary. To find criticism about a particular author, use the author's name as a subject.

For general literary criticism, it's sometimes easiest to do a keyword search, and then scroll through the subject headings for a relevant title (doing so will allow you to search for "Native American authors", for example, and find that the official subject heading is "American literature - Indian authors - history and criticism").

• subject: Walcott, Derek—criticism and interpretation
• subject: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865 1936 political and social views
• subject: American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism
• subject: Poets, Pnglish—early modern 1500 - 1700 

Next-Gen Melvyl

The combined catalogs for all UC libraries, plus WorldCat,  the combined catalogs of libraries around the world. 

You can limit Next-Gen Melvyl to search UC libraries only. For items not owned by UCSB, use the orange Request button to order through Interlibrary Loan.