Guides: ITAL 592 Primo Levi: Witness and/or Writer? (Fiona Stewart): Getting Started

Getting Started

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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.
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.

In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and their proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors within the Bibliography are included.
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.

JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, & VII and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering subject disciplines in Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books that were formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

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E-Journals on Italian Literature

MLN

Critical Studies in the modern languages (Italian, Hispanic, German, French) and recent work in comparative literature are teh basis for the articles and notes in MLN. The journal publishes four single-language issues and one comparative literature issue.

Back Issues of MLN in JSTOR

Romance Notes

Romance Notes, a journal that accepts on any literary, cultural, or linguistic topic dealing with Romance studies, appears 3 times a year.

Italian Culture

The official publication of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) offers subscribers scholarly articles in Italian language, linguistics, history, literature, cinema, politics, philosophy, folklore, popular culture, migration, and the influence of Italy on other cultures.

Italica

Features original scholarly articles on all aspects of Italian language, literature, and culture

Full-text in Jstor from v. 3 (does not include full-text of previous 2 years)

Subject Guide

Sally Bryant

Associate University Librarian for Public Services and Instruction

Contact:

Payson Library

(310) 506-4262

Subjects: Film, Interlibrary Loan & eReserves, International Studies, IP Courses, Jewish Studies, Modern Languages, Screenwriting (Graduate Program), Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts

Research Project

Approximately 4-6 pages (i.e. circa 1000 words) in length. Critical analysis of one or more of the books/topics covered during the semester. All papers should reference no fewer than three secondary sources of academic merit.