Lottery

There are a number of databases accessible from the library homepage that will have a good selection of literary criticism on Shirley Jackson's The Lottery.

Click on the links below and enter The Lottery and the author's name. If you only enter The Lottery, you will probably get a lot of irrelevant documents.

Look out for book reviews. You don't want book reviews, you want actual articles discussing the work.

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Special remarks:

A number of products in this family of databases will have relevant material: try, for example Advanced Placement Source, MAS Ultra, Lit Ref Ctr (see below)

Part of the EBSCOhost bundle and all about literature!

Try limiting your search to "scholarly journals" only for more relevant results.

Search in Student Resource Center.

Follow also the links to Gale Virtual Reference Library for Short Stories for Students.

There will be lots of material here. It's written at a more advanced, scholarly level, but challenge yourself!

Search multiple databases simultaneously with this Google-like gateway to SPX's databases.