The Modern Language Association International Bibliography is a good place to go if you're looking for literary criticism found in journal articles or essays in books.  Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore from 1926-present. Like Tripod, you can do a basic keyword search, or you can narrow your searches down by using some more advanced techniques.

Using the standard search for MLA.  From here you can do a keyword search, such as "le mot juste and Gustave Flaubert."  The results will tell you every time the combination of those two search terms appeared in the database.  Beware the "Title Keyword" search: this searches keywords in the titles of critical works, not literary works.

Use the button to find out if we have the item in Trico.  A separate window will open up and either take you directly to an electronic version of the article, give you a link to check Tripod for a print copy, or tell you we don't have a copy.  If we don't have a copy, don't worry!  You can request most things from Interlibrary Loan by clicking on the ILL link, entering your name and barcode and submitting the request.

There are other ways of searching MLA that come in handy.  Try searching for "author as subject" or "author's work."  But watch out!  Not all titles are indexed in MLA.