Research Guides: Literature & Creative Writing: Overview

Recommended Databases

Communication Source
Communication Source offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.
Film & Television Literature Index
Comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing.
Film Literature Index
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes film and television periodicals. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001
MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Language Association's index to literature. Search MLA to find literary criticism, book reviews, and just about anything relating to communication.
Popular Culture Collection (Gale OneFile)
Scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms -- phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others.

Oxford Bibliographies: Communication
Offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

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