OLD Literature: Critical Overviews - World Literature
Resources for Literature-Based English Courses
Critical Overviews for Short Stories, Novels, Poems, Plays, and Essays
Still trying to figure out what that story or poem was all about?
Here you will find links to critical overviews for short stories, excerpts from novels, poems, plays, and essays published in Making Literature Matter, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton Reader, and other textbooks used in English Composition classes at NWACC.
Each article discusses a work's themes, style, and historical context, and features critical analysis from literary scholars and other writers.
You can find more overviews of these and other works in:
- Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Gale Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases Contemporary Authors and Literature Resource Center. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres and find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
- Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window This comprehensive full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time-frames—to give students, professors, and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs. Also includes full-text ebooks of literary classics.
Critical Overviews
Aristophanes
Augustine
Beowulf
Cervantes
Chaucer
Confucius
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer
Murasaki
Petrarch
The Qur'an
The Ramayana of Valmiki