Comparative Literature Research Guide

Citing your sources is required! It is also beneficial in several ways:

• Ethically: It helps you distinguish between your ideas and those of your sources
• Collegially: Others can look up the sources you used to get more information about your subjects
• Rhetorically:  It proves that you are up-to-date with what people are saying. This makes you look more knowledgeable. 

If you are a Comparative Literature major, most of your classes will use MLA citation style.

Here are a few tips...

MLA Handbook

There are many brief MLA guides out there, but the MLA Handbook contains the complete rules.  It is useful to consult for several reasons:

• It explains the reasons behind the rules. These are important for resolving ambiguity.
• It covers special cases that may be excluded from brief guides.
• It provides enough information to allow you to cobble together your own rules when there isn't an exact rule for what you want to do.
• The examples are fantastic.

I'd recommend buying your own copy, but the Library also has one, located at:

Reference Level 3        LB2369 .G53 2009

Other Tools

Anderson, Hans Christian. "The Little Mermaid." The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism." Ed. Maria Tatar. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. Print. 

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish. Trans. and Ed. Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Print. 

Ross, Deborah L. "Miyazaki's Little Mermaid: A Goldfish out of Water." Journal of Film and Video 66.3 (2014): 18-30. Web. ​