Customize your search with more limiting options to target relevant results. You can combine search fields to create a complex search for specific results.
• Select Keyword to search “hot spots” of articles, including citations, subject headings, abstracts, and the beginning of each article. This is a good general option to start your search.
• Pick Entire Document to search within the entire text of documents for any mention of your terms. Find precise phrases within results, or locate articles that touch on specific concepts.
• Pick Name of Work to find results that discuss a particular poem, essay, novel, or other written piece. Ex. Little Women
• Select Person - About to locate results that analyze or discuss a particular writer.
You can combine search fields to create a complex search for more precise results.
• Select drop-down search operators to connect your search terms. AND ensures your results mention both terms. OR broadens your search to results mentioning either term. NOT excludes a term.
Use More Options in combination with search terms, or on their own for a broad view of available content.
• Click to limit results to Full Text Documents and/or Peer-Reviewed Journals.
• Select Content Type(s) to specify broad categories of results, like literature criticism or biographies.
As the search functionality works the same in all EBSCO databases, once you know how to search one database, you can search them all with confidence.
To search for literature criticism in JSTOR
NOTE: On the Dashboard of the Salem Press Reference Desk website look for "View Subject Index". Click on it to view the different authors and topics available under Literature.
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Table of Contents: Flannery O’Connor