You can find information on your subject by using the Mississippi State University Libraries Online Catalog & available databases. The searching strategies will work in the catalog and databases.
Two types of searches will help locate books: the "SUBJECT" and "KEYWORD" searches.
Beloved AND The Bluest Eye = results will have everything that has those two words, but not appearing in a resource individually.
Allegory OR Allusion = results will include everything that includes the words together or individually in a resource
"literary theory" NOT psychoanalysis = results will include all literary theory, but not psychoanalysis.
"Woman browses books in an unknown library" by Nathan Williams/ CC BY SRR 2.0
Serendipitous Browsing leads to great finds in the library! You can do this without a computer, just take your self to the circulating collection and look to see what you can find! Use the Library of Congress (LOC) Call Numbers given below to search the Research Services Reference Collection, as well as the circulating collection.