Below you will find the Video Recording and Slides from our MLA Workshop.
Full text of books and other sources of poetry, drama and prose originally published in print. Also includes 21 historic editions of the Bible in English.
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 152,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 202,000 titles into one source.
Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
In this course you will be getting introduced to various forms of literature, and you will be required to write a 6-8 page paper doing a literary analysis on one of the readings presented in class.
This page will present a piece of advice for finding a literary analysis for your paper and give you other assistance for aspects of this paper and other assignments for the class as well.
In this course, you will be introduced to various forms of literature from Poetry to the Literary Canon to Early Literature where you may read poems and excerpts from these forms. You will also concentrate on these individual pieces of literature.
When looking for resources for your papers in most cases using this formulae for your search terms will work well.
"Title of work" + Analysis or "Title of work" + critique or "Title of Work" + Criticism
You may also want to click full text when you do your search.
However, there are two exceptions: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace." Both titles are common items or names for something else. When simply typing in "The Lottery" + Analysis, you may just get the analysis of the usefulness of the state lottery system. Or when typing in "The Necklace" + Analysis, you may also just get the analysis of several necklace jewelers and their qualities. Therefore, the addition of the author into the search terms may be also warranted. This goes for any snippets and excerpts that have a common title too.
Therefore, your search terms should be like this; "The Necklace" + de Maupassant + analysis/critique. Or "The Lottery" + "Shirley Jackson" + analysis/critique / criticism.
Moreover, you only need to find one analytical essay/ journal article for the parameters of the paper.
Lastly, if you want, utilize the subject limiters located on the left hand side of the page, if you want further narrowing and refining.
You may want to perform some further research on the Historical Context and the place this work held in the Author's life or in the context of the Author's development as an author. If these are not at all present in the course materials for the class, then a quick search just for the author may put these aspects into perspective.
Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work which is conveyed by an author and interpreted by a reader.
Examples:
A literary device is a writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes in a piece of text.
Click the examples of each to learn more: