Literary criticism refers to the process of defining, classifying, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating pieces of literature with the purpose of understanding and appreciating them more fully.
There are many different schools of literary criticism, including but not limited to:
Along with examining texts, literary criticism can include investigating authors, learning about their background, interests, and other contextual information relevant to their work.
Communications & Mass Media Collection: Advertising and public relations, literature and writing, and linguistics.
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary): Contains books on a range of academic, college-level subjects.
JSTOR: Journal articles in a scholarly database including anthropology, education, history, literature, philosophy, and sociology.