WR150: Worlds of the Blind

Subject Headings.
Reference Works.
Indexes and Databases.
Additional Links.

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

blind
blind fiction
blind in art
blind in literature
blind public opinion
blindness
blindness fiction
blindness in literature
blindness psychological aspects
blindness public opinion
blindness social aspects
blindness united states
deafblind people
discrimination against people with disabilities
evil eye
keller helen
light and darkness in literature
morrison toni
oedipus greek mythology in literature
people with disabilities united states
people with visual disabilities
sociology of disability
sophocles oedipus rex
wells h g

You can also search by author in the online catalog. For example:

kleege georgina
sacks oliver w
saramago jose

REFERENCE WORKS.

Allusions: Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. 1982.: Mugar PN43 A4 1982
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2005.: Mugar Ref. X PN43 B65 2005

Britannica Online. (BU-px)

Encyclopedia of Disability. 5 vols. 2006.: Mugar Ref. X HV1568 E528 2006
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. 5 vols. 2005.: Mugar Ref. X PS153 N5 G73 2005

The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2006. (BU-px)

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. (BU-px).

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.: Mugar Ref. X PS21 E537 2004
Oxford Reference Online (BU-px): Contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these works. Includes reference works in mythology, folklore, classics, literature, religion, and philosophy.

The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. 2003.: Mugar PS3563 O8749 Z913 2003

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.
Anthropological Literature. (Ch-Riv-px).: An index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. A search for blind or blindness yields many citations to articles on color blindness.
Art Index Full Text. 1983 - . (ChRiv-px).: Index to articles on art. Look here for citations to articles on blindness in art or blind artists. Full text articles from 1997 to present.
ARTbibliographies Modern. 1974 - . (BU-px).: Indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews covering artists and movements beginning in the late 19th century to the present.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - . (Bu-px).: Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature inthe humanities. Includes book reviews.
ATLA Religion Database. 1949 - . (BU-px).: ATLA RELIGION DATABASE, produced by the American Theological Library Association, indexes citations in the scholarly fields of religion. Consult this database for citations to articles on blindness or the blind in the Bible.
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.

Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography. (BU-px): Contemporary Authors provides a comprehensive collection of biographies of currently active authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select provides excerpts from critical works on most major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Dictionary of Literary Biography contains detailed literary biographies of authors from a wide variety of genres, nationalities, and literary forms.
Education Full Text. 1983 - . (ChrRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 English-language education periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.
General Science Full Text. 1983 - (ChRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals.

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. Consult this database for citations to articles on blindness in the Bible, in literature, folklore, mythology, etc.
Philosopher's Index. 1940 - (BU-px).: Indexes and abstracts books, contributions to anthologies and articles from approximately 300 journals annually, from 1940 to date for English-language sources. Covers philosophy and related fields, including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of various disciplines such as education, history and law.
Project Muse. (ChRiv-px).: Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.
Social Sciences Full Text. 1983 - (ChRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the social sciences including psychology and sociology. A subject search for attitudes toward the blind yields several articles.

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Grove Art Online. (BU-px).: GROVE ART ONLINE is an online version of the 34 volume print Dictionary of Art (1996). Comprising more than 45,000 signed articles on the visual arts, it is kept current with quarterly updates and additions. This site also incorporates links to over 130,000 images, searchable by artist, title, dates, location or by keyword.

WR150 Research Guide

J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)