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EN 027 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Blank, Renee. Voices of Diversity. New York : AMACOM Books, 1994.

Chow, Rey. Ethics after Idealism. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1998.

Gregory, Vicki L. Multicultural Resources on the Internet. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

Levinson, David. Ethnic Groups Worldwide. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1998.

Reading Across Cultures. New York, N.Y. : Teachers College Press, 1997.

Speaking the Unpleasant. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1998.

 

Periodical Databases
 

Ebsco Database (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • Literary Index -- find sources for information on writers
  • MLA -- Access to MLA Bibliographic Index of books, papers, dissertations on literature and language
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

Academic Universe: Business Information: Lexis-Nexis. (password required)

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Bergonzi, Bernard.
Reading the thirties: texts and contexts.
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. PR471 .B45 1978

Booker, M. Keith.
The dystopian impulse in modern literature: fiction as social criticism.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. PN3503 .B619 1994

Bourdieu, Pierre.
The rules of art: genesis and structure of the literary field.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. PN45 .B57513 1996

Boyarin, Jonathan.
The Ethnography of reading.
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993. Z1003 .E87 1993

Brown, Richard Harvey.
Society as text: essays on rhetoric, reason, and reality.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. P40 .B76 1987

Emrich, Wilhelm.
The literary revolution and modern society, and other essays.
New York: Ungar, [1971]. PT111 .E4

Slote, Bernice.
Literature and society.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, [1964]. PN51 .S4

Trilling, Lionel.
The liberal imagination: essays on literature and society.
New York: Viking Press, 1950. PS3539.R56 L5 1950

 

Selected Websites

 

Online materials for students enrolled in EN 027 are provided by the Busse Library, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Use is limited to registered students. Contact the Busse Library with your questions.