Welcome 10th Grade!

A few of you have already posted on the "Best Book I Ever Read" post but the thread is getting long. If you want to post here, that would be great but I hope you will still take the time to look at what other folks have been reading.
~ Mrs. Codner

Literary Criticism Stuff for Mrs. LeVick

Literary Criticism
What is it?
Why do we need it?

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/whatislit.html

Easier - Literary criticism is a view or opinion on what a particular written work means. It is about the meanings that a reader finds in an author's literature.

Harder - Literary criticism is an attempt to evaluate and understand the creative writing, the literature of an author. Literature includes plays, essays, novels, poetry, and short stories. Literary criticism is a description, analysis, evaluation, or interpretation of a particular literary work or an author's writings as a whole. Literary criticism is usually expressed in the form of a critical essay. In-depth book reviews are also sometimes viewed as literary criticism. (http://42explore.com/litcrit.htm)

Database Sources:

Start-Programs-Library Online Databases-

Gale Group-
Twayne’s Authors Series

Contemporary Literary Criticism

EBSCO Host
Use Advanced Search, use “Criticism” as one of your search terms, select Full Text


GOOD Internet Sources:
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html

http://www.enotes.com/guides/criticism

http://42explore.com/litcrit.htm

http://www.bookspot.com/litcrit.htm