The MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography is the major index for literary studies; it's updated several times throughout the year. This is a good place to begin looking for scholarship on the texts and writers covered this semester. The index includes secondary source material on the following subjects:

• Modern literatures
• Literary theory and criticism
• Linguistics
• Teaching of language
• Film, television and theater
• Rhetoric and composition
• History of the book
• Folklore

A helpful way to search the MLA Bibliography is by using the Advanced search interface to run a "Primary Subject Author" and "Primary Subject Work" search.