Literary & Film Criticism

Use the same types of search terms that you would use in the library database. For example:

• Title
  • "Pride and Prejudice"
• Author
  • Jane Austen
• Theory or type of criticism
  • "Feminist criticism"
  • "Marxist theory"
• Keywords related to a theme, character, plot point, etc.
  • Darcy
  • Social class
  • Marriage

Search Results

The search results page includes:

• Left: options for limiting by source type or publication dates and sorting results
• Center: results including options for saving or citing a source, seeing related articles or sources that cite that source, and "versions" of the article.
• Right Column: links to the full text of the source (often a PDF)

If there is not a PDF available:

• Look at the other "versions" of the article to see if the full text is available there. Some articles may have been published in multiple places or formats.
• Request the article via Interlibrary Loan.

CSM does not have a subscription to JSTOR, a database that includes more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

However, you can still use this database as a resource for:

• Free articles (open access sources)
• "Free reads" with a personal account
• Finding articles that you can request via Interlibrary Loan (ILL)