Provides access to citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, and film since 1963. Special features include the full text of the original article for some citations and a collection of images consisting of photographs, maps, and flags.

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Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commercial advertisements, movie previews and posters, still or animated cartoons, and short live-action films. In Newslore: Folklore on the Internet and in the News, author Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the Web were Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and such media celebrities as Princess Diana and Michael Jackson. The book also looks at the folk response to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Frank analyzes this material by tracing each item back to the news story it refers to in search of clues as to what, exactly, the item reveals about the public's response. His argument throughout is that newslore is an extremely useful and revelatory gauge for public reaction to current events and an invaluable screen capture of the latest zeitgeist.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals remains the best reference source for accurate and comprehensive information about humanities journals and series. Each listing contains -- names and addresses of editors -- telephone and fax numbers -- e-mail addresses -- descriptions of scope -- languages accepted -- rules for manuscript submission -- frequency of publication -- circulation figures -- subscription prices and addresses -- advertising information -- availability on microfilmDesigned with an easy-to-use format, the directory includes four indexes -- subject, editorial personnel, sponsoring organization, and language of publication -- that expedite searching and provide valuable cross-references; it also lists journals that have author-anonymous submission policies.The Directory of Periodicals is published in two editions. The unabridged, clothbound edition contains information on 3,402 journals and series published throughout the world and indexed in the widely respected MLA International Bibliography. The abridged, paperback edition includes 1,422 periodicals published in North and South America.