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Old 03-28-2018, 03:37 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Amazon's great for finding a specific book which, to be fair, is what I want to do 95% of the time. It would be nice on occasions, though, to be able to say "What books are available on such-and-such a subject?", and that's where it falls down. One really has to use other resources to answer that question, and then, having obtained a recommendation, find the book by title or author.
Regarding your earlier mention of Shakespeare literary criticism, if I were looking for such a book on Amazon, I would already have researched - via the internet and other books - the specific book I wanted for the particular area of Shakespeare crit I was interested in. I don't regard Amazon to be a research tool.
When I was a Lit student, I used either the books recommended by lecturers, or searched via the uni library system's listings.

I just went to Amazon's Books dept, typed "Shakespeare literary criticism" in the search. The results were mostly plays with commentary, but there were a few lit crit books.
Typing "Shakespeare literary criticism books" into google (without quotation marks) came up with lots of results, one of which was:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show...eare-criticism
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