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GALE LITERARY CRITICISM SERIES

Search the Gale Literary Criticism Series index (http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex) to access information from the following titles in the 2nd floor DLLRC Reference Collection:

BLC Black Literature Criticism RIV Ref PS153.N5 B556
CLC Contemporary Literary Criticism RIV Ref PN771.C59
CLR Children's Literature Review RIV Ref PN1009.A1 C5139
CMLC Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism RIV Ref PN681.5 .C57
DC Drama Criticism RIV Ref PN1625 .D72
HLC Hispanic Literature Criticism RIV Ref PQ6039 .H51994
LC Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 RIV Ref PN86 .L56
PC Poetry Criticism RIV Ref PN1010 .P499
SSC Short Story Criticism RIV Ref PN3373. S386
TCLC Twentieth-Century Literary Critisism RIV Ref PN771. T9

MORE BOOKS

American Women Writers RIV Ref PS147. A4
The Library of Literary Critisim of English & American Authors RIV Ref Pr83 .M73 1959
The Consice oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms RIV Ref PN41 .C67 1990
Dictionary of Concepts in LIterary Criticism and Theory RIV Ref PN41 .H36 1992
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory RIV Ref PN81 .E43 1993
Modern American Literature (c. 1997) RIV Ref PS221 .C8 1969
Critical Survey of Long Fiction RIV Ref PN3451 .C75 2000
Cricial Survey of Short Fiction RIV Ref PN3321 .C7 2001
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication RIV Main Z5917 .S5 W33 1977

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