MLA International Bibliography (Literature and Language) Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations. Dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric and composition, and the history, theory, and practice of teaching language and literature. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; a thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography; and a searchable directory of noted authors' names, with links to brief descriptive notes.