You can find many critical essays about literature collected within books and ebooks.
Add "criticism and interpretation" to your search.
Search for authors as subjects. (su:Morrison, Toni)
Try searching for ____ in literature. (For example, "medicine in literature.")
Looking for a book published before 1928? Most likely, it has been digitized and is freely available online.
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