For better results try using these search strategies when necessary:
Wildcard: The query behavi?r finds the behavior or behaviour. Truncation: The query organiz*= organization, organize, organizational Put a phrase in “quotes”. |
Use Boolean Operators to narrow or expand a search, and exclude irrelevant results. For example: media AND violence, teens OR adolescents, psychology NOT clinical |
Examples of keywords/concepts: Hegemony, Alienation, Class hierarchy: lower, middle, upper, aristocracy, Social order, Politics, Materialism, Proletariat worker wage-earner, Products, Commodities, Revolution, Ruling class as benevolent, Class struggle, Oppressor and Oppressed, Power, Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, Consumption, Division of labor, Ideology |
Philosophers and Writers: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser |
Artists: Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo |
Example of an article:
Patnaik, Prabhat. “The Terrain of Marxist Theory.” Social Scientist, vol. 36, no. 11/12, 2008, pp. 20–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27644298.
Example of an article:
Turner, Timothy A. "Othello on the Rack." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 102-136,150-151. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/othello-on-rack/docview/1689656998/se-2.
Example of an article:
Matthews, G. M. "Othello and the Dignity of Man." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Mark W. Scott, vol. 4, Gale, 1987. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/KDXFSG817272237/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=3fb54ff8. Originally published in Shakespeare in a Changing World: Essays, edited by Arnold Kettle, International Publishers, 1964, pp. 123-145.
Example of an article:
Kamps, Ivo. "Materialist Shakespeare: An Introduction." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 173, Gale, 2017, pp. 272-282. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/SKOLJY433613950/GLS?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=a6666a89. Originally published in Materialist Shakespeare, edited by Ivo Kamps, Verso, 1995, pp. 1-19.
Example of an eBook:
Rigby, S. H. Marxism and History: A critical introduction. Manchester University Press, 1998. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/book/125156.