Go to General Reading Room to look for Reports on your topic. In literature courses, you will be asked to analyze, interpret, or evaluate a work of literature. Using an existing analysis, interpretation or evaluation of a work involves using sources of literary criticism. Literary criticism may be essay or book length. Some literary criticism sources are available via the Internet.
Libraries have many extensive print sources of literary criticism.
If you go to a library, a basic place to start your search for literary criticism would be the Gale series which includes titles such as Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism . The printed sources include information about authors and excerpts from critical essays written about the author and works. While not considered in-depth literary criticism, book reviews give an outlook on how a work was received when it was published. The Book Review section of our Literary Resources page contains several book review sites. This literary criticism collection contains over 3000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.