Finding Books By and About Your Author, or About a Literary Work
You can search OneSearch and the various databases by considering some of these options:
| I Need |
OneSearch's Advanced Search Choose: |
Search Strategy |
| All the works my author wrote |
Author/Creator contains |
search, last name first (ex.: Joyce, James) |
| Scholarly criticism about my author |
Subject contains
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search, last name first (ex.: Joyce, James)
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| Biography of my author |
Subject contains
AND
Genre contains
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last name, first name (ex.: Joyce, James)
Biography
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| Scholarly criticism about a novel, play or long/famous poem by my author |
Subject contains
And
Subject contains
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title of work (ex.: To the Lighthouse criticism)
criticism
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| Short Story or shorter/less famous poem by my author |
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For more recent or less know poems & short stories conduct the same search as for a novel, play, or famous poem.
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| Scholarly criticism on a character or group |
Subject contains
And
Subject contains
And
Subject contains
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character name or group (ex.: women)
author (ex.: Pope, Alexander)
criticism
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| How a theme or literary device is used in an author/work |
Any field contains
And
Subject contains
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name of theme or literary device (Ex.: symbolism)
author (ex.: Yeats, William Butler)
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