Library Guides: English Literature: Short Story Criticism

Short Story Criticism

Literature Criticism Online
Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Twentieth Century Short Story Explication (print)
Provides indexing of criticism of individual short stories, 1900 - 1975 (v.1, 1900 - 1975 + various supplements).
MLA International Bibliography
Bibliographic information (beginning in 1926) for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, short stories, humanities, and folklore.
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"The database includes bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations".
Reader's Guide Retrospective
Containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.

Short Story Index
Locate more than 96,000 stories—plus the full text of more than 4,000 stories.
Note: Many times a short story is part of a collection and the collection will be reviewed and critiqued as a whole.