Databases for Research: Literary Review & Criticism

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Canadian content - contains a significant amount of Canadian content
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Canadian Literary Centre Canadian content
(EBSCO) Provides access to Canadian literary resources including: biographies, criticism, essays and book reviews.
Literary Reference Center and Canadian Literary Centre Canadian content
(EBSCO) Provides access to author biographies, literary criticism, book reviews, essays, plot summaries, poetry, short stories and novels.
Literature Resource Center
(Gale) Provides access to literary criticism, biographical information, interviews and reviews on more than 140,000 authors and their works.
NoveList Canadian content
(EBSCO) Provides descriptions and reviews of thousands of works of fiction, recommends similar titles and authors, and provides guides for book discussions. Note that the works described are not necessarily part of the Seneca Libraries collections.
Short Story Criticism
(Gale) Online access to the print version of Gale's Short Story Criticism series, offering analysis of short stories and other works of short fiction.
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