Consider the following:

• Literary criticisms are not opinion pieces and often utilize other scholarship.
• They are not a substitute for reading the work and usually won't give overall summaries.
• Criticisms can be used as evidence to support arguments and help you focus your opinion.
• Scholars can provide other opinions and points of views you might not have considered.

Be careful not to overly rely on literary criticisms in your paper. Make sure you are still including your own opinions as well as relying on what can be drawn directly from the work itself.

Literary criticism are mostly in scholarly journals. Books and book chapters can also be critical works around a literary work, author, or genre.

Sometimes searching specific journals can help you find relevant articles.

Here are two strategies you can use to find relevant journals:

1. Search e-Journals Portal

The e-Journals portal on the library's home page allows you to search journal titles that we have electronic access to. Consider searching the author's name, the literary approach you are using (i.e. feminism or feminist), the genre, etc.

2. Search the MLA Directory of Periodicals

The MLA Directory of Periodicals is a great way to find journal titles in the literary world.