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Featured Database: Cambridge Companions Online
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What’s in it?
Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to literature, poetry, theatre, philosophy, religion, and historical and cultural topics. The database contains substantial downloadable essays with chronologies and guides to further reading, as well as scholarly writings covering major authors, artists, philosophers, topics, and time periods. Addresses subjects and figures as diverse as Gothic Fiction and Arabic Philosophy, Tom Stoppard and Martin Luther, Jane Austen and Stravinsky.
Why should you use it?
You can use the companion guides available on this database to aid in your understanding of a work of literature, a time in history, or a philosophical concept, as well as gather evidence to provide a rich analysis for your topic of study or interest.
Who should use it?
Students in humanities fields, such as English, History, Philosophy, and Gender Studies can use this database to find reliable analysis and criticism for subjects surrounding classic and modern literature, music, philosophy, religion, and culture. If you are doing any type of literary, historical, or cultural analysis you would benefit from the materials in this database. Faculty looking to enrich lecture materials or give companion guides for works that are covered by Cambridge Companions would also find this database useful.
Why use a database?
When you use a specific database, rather than a search engine or discovery tool, you often can find more relevant sources. For example, subject databases include sources about that subject only, rather than a general search engine or discovery tool that includes information about everything. This way you don’t have to wade through thousands of irrelevant results!
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