Works of literature: Start in the Library Catalog and Worldcat and use any of these search strategies:
Remember that subject classification is not consistently applied - so you need to run a combination of searches to be comprehensive.
Literary scholarship published in book format: use the subject heading History and Criticism and combine it with your topic or an author
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Class P.
P | Philology. Linguistics |
PA | Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature |
PB | Modern languages. Celtic language |
PC | Romanic languages |
PD | Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages |
PE | English language |
PF | West Germanic languages |
PG | Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian language |
PH | Uralic languages. Basque language |
PJ | Oriental languages and literatures |
PK | Indo-Iranian languages and literatures |
PL | Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PM Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages |
PN | Literature (General) |
PQ | French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature |
PR | English literature |
PS | American literature |
PT | German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish literature since 1830 Afrikaans literature - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian - Modern Icelandic literature - Faroese literature - Danish literature - Norwegian literature - Swedish literature |
PZ | Fiction and juvenile belles lettres |
Arabic-language literature and translations into English, as well as criticism and analysis of Arabic literature are located in the call number range PJ7501 - PJ8517 - Arabic
Broad subject headings
Arabic literature
Arabic literature - women authors
Arabic fiction
Arabic poetry
Arabic literature - translations
Linguistic focus
Nationality focus
Authors - Arab
Arab American - fiction
Country focus
Arabic literature - Iraq
Algerian literature
Algeria - fiction
Egyptian literature
Egypt - fiction
Iraq - fiction
Moroccan literature
Morocco - fiction
Syria - fiction
Palestine - fiction