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These research guides are the best place to start your research in any discipline. Find relevant databases, general tips about the research process, and citation help.
The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture. Readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance. Use the far right search box to search within this publication.
This is a disciplinary database that provides scholarly articles, books, and more on language and literature, including folklore. The sources in this database can also be found through Library Search, but sometimes it is helpful to limit the scope of your search down to a specific discipline. You can also use more powerful search tools like a subject search.
This is a disciplinary database for sociology, which is the study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction and culture of everyday life.
Argues that these iconic superheroes contribute to our contemporary understandings of national identity, the righteous use of power, and the role of the U.S., Canada, and Britain in the world.
Reading superhero comic books through a philosophical lens reveals how they experiment with complex issues of morality, metaphysics, meaning, and medium.
Chapter-length analyses of the early comic book adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and Iron-Man,including: the problem of evil; the will-to-power; the tension between intimacy and vulnerability; and the challenge of love, in the face of mortality.
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RefWorks is an easy tool that helps you gather citations directory from library databases and then creates in-text citations and works cited directly in your paper. The Google Docs add on is the easiest to use. This guide links you to RefWorks and teaches you how to use it.