WORKS CITED - LITERARY CRITICISM

Arrangement of citations is

first lines of entries flush left; subsequent lines indented 5 spaces.
alphabetical order by author's family name (or by the first word of the title if no author given.)

EXAMPLES PRINT

Single Volume of Criticism

--About One Author, by One Author

--About One Author, by Multiple Authors

--About One Novel, by One Author

--About One Novel, by Multiple Authors

Multi-Volume Works

--Overview essay, no author

--Critical essay, written solely for the volume

--Critical essay, reprinted from a scholarly journal

--Critical essay, reprinted from a book

EXAMPLES ELECTRONIC

--Online Resource: Book

--Online Resource:Journal

EXAMPLES: PRINT

Book:

single volume about one author by one author.

McKay, Nancy. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988.

single volume of essays about one author by multiple authors.

Berman, Ronald. "Media in The Great Gatsby." Readings on F. Scott

Fitzgerald. Ed. Katie de Koster. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998. 96-102.

single volume of essays about one novel by one author.

Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding the Scarlet Letter. Westport, CT:

Greenwood Press, 1995.

single volume of essays about one novel by multiple authors.

Spilka, Mark. "The Death of Love in The Sun Also Rises." Ernest Hemingway's

The Sun Also Rises. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 25-37.

Multivolume works:

overview essay, no author. (e.g.: Themes, Style, etc...)

"Hills Like White Elephants." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Tim Akers. Vol. 6.

Detroit: Gale, 1999. 155-163.

"Night." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 4. Detroit:

Gale, 1998. 234-45.

critical essay written solely for the volume.

Cutler, Constance A. Critical Essay on The Age of Innocence. 1,300 Critical

Evaluations of Selected Novels and Plays. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1978. 21-3.

Hardy, Sarah Madsen. Critical Essay on "The Way We Live Now." Short

Stories for Students. Ed. Michael L. LaBlanc and Ira Mark Milne. Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 284-287.

Robeson, Dustie. Critical Essay on The House of the Seven Gables. Novels for

Students. Ed. Ira Mark Milne. Vol. 20. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 71-3.

Yearley, Clifton K. Critical Essay on All Quiet on the Western Front. Magill's

Survey of World Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 8. North Bellmore, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995. 2672-2674.

critical essay reprinted from a scholarly journal.

Archer, William. "Dumas and the English Drama," Cosmopolis Vol. 1, No. 2,

(February, 1896), 363-72; reprinted in Drama Criticism, Vol. 1, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau (Detroit: Gale, 1991), 104-07.

Hodge, Marion. “James Dickey's Natural Heaven,” South Atlantic Review Vol.

56. No. 4, (1991), 57-61; reprinted in Poetry for Students, Vol. 6, ed. Mary K. Ruby (Detroit:Gale, 1999), 45-51.

Johnston, Kenneth G. " 'Hills Like White Elephants':Lean, Vintage, Hemingway," Studies

in American Fiction Vol. 10. No. 2, (Autumn, 1982), 233-238; reprinted in Short Stories for Students, Vol. 6 ed. Tim Akers (Detroit: Gale, 1999), 166-169.

critical essay reprinted from a book.
Casebeer, Edwin F. “Stephen King's Canon: The Art of Balance,” in A Dark

Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror (University of South Carolina Press, 1996), 42-54; reprinted in Novels for Students, Vol. 113, ed. Diane Telgen (Detroit:Gale, 1999), 387-393.

Conacher, D.J. Critical Essay on Medea in Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme,

and Structure (University of Toronto Press, 1967), 187-98; reprinted in Drama for Students, Vol. 1, ed. David Galens and Lynn Sampinato (Detroit: Gale, 1998), 193-99.

EXAMPLES: ELECTRONIC
(Author. "Title of Article." Publication Name. Volume Number (if necessary)

Publication Date: page number-page number. Database name. Service name. Date of retrieval. <electronic address of the database>.

online subscription database:
reprinted from a book .
Bloom, Lynn Z. "Maya Angelou." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed.

Thadeus M. Davis. Detroit: Gale, 1985. Student Resource Center. Gale. Retrieved 15 January 2004. <http://galenet.gale.com>.

reprinted from a scholarly journal.

Nicholls, David, G. "Migrant Labor, Folklore, and Resistance in Hurston's Polk

County: Reframing Mules and Men." African-American Review 33 (1999):467. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Retrieved 10 September 2004. <http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitRC?locID=ards89105>.

Xu, Ben. “Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck

Club.” MELUS Spring (1994): 3-18. Student Resource Center. Gale. Retrieved 12 January 2004. <http://galenet.gale.com>.

Sources for Works Cited - Literary Criticism :

"Citing Novels for Students." Ed. Ira Mark Milne and Timothy Sisler. Vol. 20.

Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2005. xiii.

Hacker, Diana. "Humanities: Documenting Sources." Research and

Documentation Online. Retrieved 8 November 2004 http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/list.html