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WR150: Approaches to Death
SUBJECT HEADINGS.
Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:
- death
- death in literature
- death psychological aspects
- death religious aspects
- death religious apsects comparative studies
- death social aspects
- Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Hamlet
- Socrates
- Tolstoy Leo Graf 1828-1910
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You can also search by author
in the online catalog. For example:
- Tolstoy Leo Graf 1828-1910
REFERENCE WORKS.
- Britannica Online. (BU-px)
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.1996. (BU-px)
- Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia. 2000.
- Mugar Ref. X GT3150 T25 2000
- The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. 2005.
- Mugar Ref. X HQ1073 C374 2005
- Handbook of Death and Dying. 2 vols. 2003.
- Mugar HQ1073 H36 2003.
- The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. 2005. (BU-px)
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. 2003. (BU-px)
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. 2008. (BU-px)
INDEXES AND DATABASES.
- ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920 - . (ChRiv-px)
- The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - . (BU-px)
- Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature inthe humanities. Includes book reviews.
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (BU-px)
- Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
- Humanities Full Text. 1983 - .(ChRiv-px).
- Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the humanities. Includes full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995. For retrospective searching (1907-1984) use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, which indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as early as 1907.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage) (BU-px).
- Full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to a few years ago) of scholarly journals, many of them in literature. Includes book reviews.
- MLA International Bibliography. 1926 - . (BU-px)
- International index to journals, series, monographs, working papers, bibliographies and dissertations on modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
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Project Muse. (ChRiv-px)
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Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.
- Readers' Guide Full Text. 1983+ (ChRiv-px).
- Indexing and abstracts for more than 240 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of more than 120 of those periodicals. Full text coverage begins in 1994. For retrospective searching (1890-1982) use Readers Guide Retrospective, which indexes 375+ periodicals.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection. (BU-px).
- The Religion and Philosophy Collection database offers abstracts of articles and books, and contains some full text content. Full text availability goes back to 1975 for some journal titles.
ADDITIONAL LINKS.
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J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)