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Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 145,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index of journal articles, books, and dissertations, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.5 million citations from more than 5,000 journals and series and 1,200 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

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JSTOR
With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources plus over 40,000 ebooks, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.
Green FILE This link opens in a new window
Green FILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access to the definitive online tool for film and television research.

In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

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Course Description

The precarious state of our planet’s environmental health and the profound suffering that is caused by environmental destruction requires that we rethink our relationships to place and community and that we enact new patterns of behavior based upon these reimagined connections. This course seeks to do this by exploring the relationship between literature and place as it is revealed in the American nature writing tradition and in the work of international writers whose work enriches our understanding of this subject. The reading and writing assignments for this class have been selected in order to assist you in examining these connections from differing conceptual and cultural perspectives. By the end of the course, you should have a clearer understanding of the rich and varied relationship between literature and place, a more nuanced understanding of the place you inhabit, and a more compassionate and committed ethical orientation towards this place and its inhabitants.