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How do I find literary articles on 'The lottery' by Shirley Jackson?

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Topics: Articles, American Literature

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The best place to find articles on works of literature is in our literature databases. Use our How To Use Literature Databases LibGuide (see link below) to access the best literature databases and get step by step instructions. You may need to use all three databases to find enough articles.

Here are some tips:

EBSCO: Academic Search Complete

You can limit to Academic Journals under Source Types
It's also a good idea to take a look at limits available under Subject and Subject: Thesaurus terms. A good one would be CRITICISM.

Chadwyck-Healey Literature Online (LION) Reference Edition

Limit to articles on the Criticism search page.
Type the name of the work in the subject field to search.

Literature Resources from Gale

Select name of work after typing in story/poem title.
Limit to Literature criticism under content type.
You can also limit to peer reviewed publications--these will all be academic journal articles.

And don't forget books! Books can be a great source for literature criticism. Check:

WorldCat

Type in the title of the work or your author if there is no specific work.
On the result list, use the Topic option to narrow down to Language, Linguis...
Use the Topic list to narrow down even more until no more topic options are available. For instance, after you narrowed to Language, Linguis..., subcategories will be available depending on your search term, such as American Literature. This will save you time!

EBSCO eBooks

You can use the same techniques here you’d use in any EBSCO databases. Click on Subject and see what options most closely match topic and select.

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