For better results try using these search strategies when necessary:
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Wildcard: The query behavi?r finds the behavior or behaviour. Truncation: The query organiz*= organization, organize, organizational Put a phrase in “quotes”. |
Use Boolean Operators to narrow or expand a search, and exclude irrelevant results. For example: media AND violence, teens OR adolescents, psychology NOT clinical |
Examples of keywords/concepts: Work - self-contained, close reading, objectivity, "the text itself": sole source of evidence for interpretation, irony, Detailed Analysis, Intentional fallacy: "mistaken belief that the author’s intention is the same as the text’s meaning", Formalism: formal elements "linguistic devices of paradox, irony, ambiguity, and tension", Figurative language: "images, symbols, metaphors, and similes" -Critical Theory Today, Lois Tyson |
| Theorists: I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, Cleanth Brooks, John Crowe Ransom | Writers: William Empson, W.H. Auden, Robert Penn Warren |
Example of an article:
Rishmawi, George. “OTHELLO: ‘The Marriage of True Minds.’” Bethlehem University Journal, vol. 4, 1985, pp. 93–101. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26445034.
Example of an article:
Bethell, S. L. "Shakespeare's Imagery: The Diabolic Images in Othello." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Mark W. Scott, vol. 4, Gale, 1987. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/BRDVFO480871919/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=dbcfccb8. Originally published in Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production, vol. 5, 1952, pp. 62-80.
Example of an article:
Thorell, P. T. (1999). Stage-managing "otherness": The function of narrative in othello. Mosaic : A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 32(2), 1-25. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/stage-managing-otherness-function-narrative/docview/205368345/se-2
Example of an eBook:
Pickering, Edward D. "The Roots of New Criticism." The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 41 no. 1, 2008, p. 93-108. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/slj.0.0030.
Example of an article:
Clausen, Christopher. "Reading closely again." Commentary, vol. 103, no. 2, Feb. 1997, pp. 54+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A19093757/GPS?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=f884d4f9.