*English1B Literary Criticism

Be sure to check out the Moorpark College Library's MLA Citation Guide 9th edition, as well as the examples listed below.

Literary Criticism Reference Book examples:

Introductory material/When no author is given:

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."  Novels for Students, edited by Marie Rose  Napierbowski and Deborah A. Stanley, vol.  6,  Gale,

1999, pp. 1-24.

Critical Essays published in a Reference Book:

Dominic, Catherine.  "A Cup of Tea."  Short Story Criticism, edited by Matthew Derda, vol. 39, Gale, 2014, pp. 71-75.

When the material is reprinted from an article originally published in a periodical:

Gough, Elizabeth. "Vision and Division: Voyeurism in the Works of Isabel Allende." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by

Jeffrey W. Hunter, vol. 264, Gale, 2009, pp. 120-138.  Originally published in Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 27, no. 4,

Summer 2004, pp. 93-120.

When the material is reprinted from a work originally published in another book:

Goddard, Harold C. "Hamlet." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Laurie Lanzen Harris, vol. 1, Gale, 1984, pp. 194-198.  Originally

published in The Meaning of Shakespeare, by Harold C. Goddard, University of Chicago Press, 1960, pp. 331-386.