DE Descriptors

english-literature in de

literature in de

The DE field lists the subject index terms that describe the contents of the document. You can search using individual terms or hyphenated, "bound" phrases. Use individual terms without hyphens to broaden your search. For example, the search literature in de retrieves all occurrences of the term in the DE field, such as "English-literature," "general-literature," "folk-literature," and "Canadian-literature."

Search using hyphenated, "bound" phrases to focus your search. For example, the search Canadian-literature in de retrieves only records with that exact descriptor term.

Fields of indexing information in the Descriptors are separated by semi-colons. A period as a separator indicates the beginning of indexing for a different volume of the MLA International Bibliography. The volumes are as follows:

Vol. 1: British and Irish, Commonwealth, English Caribbean, and American Literatures

Vol. 2: European, Asian, African, and Latin American Literatures

Vol. 3: Linguistics

Vol. 4: General Literature and Related Topics

Vol. 5: Folklore

The following is an example of this display:

DE: Occitan-literature; edition-; of Doniol,-Henri; La Basse-Auvergne.

Occitan-language; and Auvergnat-Occitan-dialect; dialectology-; and stylistics-.

The Descriptors field also contains role indicators and subfield codes that more precisely define relationships between terms in this field.