COML 200: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Researching The Name of the Rose (HC)

Use the Tripod catalog   This link opens in a new window  This link opens in a new window  to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

        franciscan*  AND (poverty OR poor*)  AND doctrine*  [Keyword search]        

        eco umberto  [Subject]      

        "lost literature" [Subject]       

        aristotle AND poetics AND (comedy OR comic*) [Keywords]       

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.  Also note that older books, reports and dissertations are often listed with open access URLs.

Doctoral students go through an exhaustive literature search when writing their dissertations. They also tend to work on new questions, sometimes ones that have received very little attention from scholars before. You can sometimes obtain these dissertations and benefit from all the bibliographic treasues and new ideas. Check ProQuest Dissertations & Theses to identify dissertations on your topic.