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English and Creative Writing

Essential

The Literary Encyclopedia is a wide-ranging reference work focused on literary and cultural history. ThIs includes biographies of writers; scholarly descriptions of these authors' texts; and reflective and analytical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters. It aims to cover the full breath of world literature including English, American, German, Russian, Italian, French, and Classical literatures, and a growing body of material covering Hispanic, Japanese, Canadian, East European and various postcolonial literatures.

The Literary Encyclopedia

 

The MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature, helping you to discover and access the journals, books, websites, and other publications you need for your work. You can find scholarly publications in over 60 languages and covering the following main subject areas: Literary studies; Film and multimedia studies; Folklore.

MLA International Bibliography

MLA Bibliography tutorial

The MLA has developed an online course to teach students how to use the MLA International Bibliography.  Each of the five units in the course presents a lesson, followed by progression questions to reinforce the lesson through active engagement with the bibliography, and a quiz.  Students will receive a badge upon passing each quiz and a course-completion badge after completing all the lessons and passing all five quizzes.

Where else to search

Search Discovery

Find books, ebooks, articles, video and more

Searching Discovery

Discovery is a useful resource to use to get started with searching for literature. It searches the wealth of our library collections and many of our academic databases simultaneously. Below is a link to the Discovery search, as well as two short video guides that demo how to search it more effectively ...

Basic search video guide

Advanced search video guide

Journals

What are journals?

They are:An image of several journal titles

  • like magazines but of a scholarly nature
  • published at regular intervals
  • contain articles on a variety of topics
  • the articles are written by multiple authors.

Why should I use them?

  • using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
  • journals articles give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
  • quality research - academic rigour - peer reviewed.