how do you cite a literary critisim book ?

Use MLA format - I am including a link to a website that does the citation for you.

HOW TO DOCUMENT OR CITE PROFESSIONAL LITERARY CRITICISM

You use documentation so readers can understand which ideas and claims are your own and which should be attributed to other sources. Documentation allows your readers to track the sources you have used. You should document all ideas opinions, and information that came from other sources and that cannot be considered common knowledge (common knowledge includes the facts, dates, events, information, and concepts that an educated reader can be assumed to know).

Documentation in literature involves two steps: creating an in-text note for every source as you use it in your essay; and creating an entry on a Works Cited page for each source used in the essay.

Step 1: In the body of your paper, note each source as you use it by enclosing the author's last name and the relevant page number(s) within parentheses. If you state the name of the author in the body of the text, only include the page numbers in the parentheses.

Examples:

Gilbert and Gubar argue that Thornfield's attic "becomes a complex focal point where Jane's own rationality (what she has learned from Miss Temple) and her irrationality" intersect (348).

Many of the female authority figures in Jane Eyre—including Mrs. Reed, Miss Temple, and Mrs. Fairfax—are "the surrogate of an absent master" (Gilbert and Gubar 348).

Gilbert and Gubar note that Bronte uses images of fire and ice to characterize Jane's experiences (339).

Helen Burns's name is significant because she burns with spiritual passion and anger (Gilbert and Gubar 346).

If the source is online and does not have page numbers, use the paragraph number instead.

Miss Temple's hearth is illuminated by the moon, traditionally associated with female deities (Clarke para. 21).

Step 2: On a separate page at the end of your essay, list alphabetically every source you cited. This list of sources is titled "Works Cited." The Works Cited entry for Gilbert and Gubar would look like this:

Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

To cite an article from an online source, use the following format:

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Name of Journal issue# (Date of article): page numbers. Name of Database. Date you downloaded or read the article. URL (web address).

Examples:

Clarke, Micael M. "Bronte's Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella." Studies in English Literature. 40 (Autumn 2000): 695-711. EBSCO Academic. 05 Feb 2002. http://ehostvgw5.epnet.com/ehost.asp?

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I assume you want to cite it in the bibliography. It depends on the citation style your teacher wants. If I knew all the information, I could put it in Turabian format for you. I'm not well polished on the others.

But literary crit... Your teacher probably wants MLA :)