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CMP-203: Literature and Composition (Muzyk, Spring 2022)

Databases for Literary Topics

Search for books, articles, media and more! Searches most of the library's resources, including books, scores, audio recordings, videos, journal articles, electronic resources, and more.

Library One Search searches all of our literature databases at once, as well as books and ebooks! All of the interdisciplinary and subject databases listed on this page are searched via Library One Search, except for Gender Watch.

Too many hits? Search efficiently!

  • Search the AUTHOR of the work you are researching as the SUBJECT. Film directors are also entered as SUBJECT.
  • If it is an anonymous work or a collective work with no author (like a television show), search the TITLE as a SUBJECT
  • Use the other limits (date, subject) in the filters.
  • Limit by Source Type (articles, books, ebooks) in the filters.

The MLA International Bibliography is a library database comprised of more than 3 million indexed citations to scholarly publications (e.g., books, essays, journal articles, and websites) that relate to human communication in any form. Coverage includes literature from all over the world—Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation, comparative linguistics, and history and theory of linguistics. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, video, theater), rhetoric and writing studies, teaching of language and literature, and the history of printing and publishing.

When you find a desired citation:

  • If the item is an article in a journal and the full text is available, it will be signified by the presence of a PDF icon, the accompanying text in HTML, or a link to the article in another database. (see Finding the Full Text for more info.)
  • If there is no accompanying full text:
    • Use the Journals link from the Libraries web page to double check if the Rider Universities Libraries owns or has electronic access to the journal in your citation.
    • Request the article thorough Interlibrary Loan. We will get it for you from another library!
    • It could be a book or a book chapter. See the next bullet point!
  • If the citation is a chapter of a book, search the title of the book (not the chapter title) in the library catalog.
    • If we don't have the book, we can also get the chapter or the whole book through Interlibrary Loan.

 

Search efficiently! Click on the down arrows (drop-down box) for even more specific literature searching options in MLA.

For best results, refine your search using  Advanced Search.  

Both of these are searchable simultaneously using Library One Search.

Searched in Library One Search.

Search Project MUSE®

 

 

Project MUSE is "a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community," covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
 
Project MUSE includes the full content of each journal and ebooks from university presses and other scholarly publishers.
  • Search Help in Project Muse.
    • Hint!  After your initial search, limit by the relevant "Research Area": "Literature," "Studies by Time Period," "Creative Writing," etc. to further narrow your search!

Project Muse also indexes ebooks, but University Library may not have access to these titles via Project Muse.

  • Check the library catalog to see if we own these books or have access in another database.
  • Use Advanced Search and limit to “Language and Literature” or other disciplines under “Subject”
  • See “Searching JSTOR” under “Help” or click the "Search Help" link in the Advanced Search tab to learn the operators to make your keyword searching more effective.

Use Journals button on library home page if a recent or current issue is not full-text in JSTOR to see whether we have access to it in another database.

Depending on your topic, these databases might be helpful, too!