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Unit 10: Subject Heading List

When transported or replicated to foreign country they are given national adjectives to Notes
express national style, ownership or origin and subdivided by the place where they are
found, e.g. German automobiles – United States and Japanese corporations – France.
Persons are subdivided geographically except authors, novelist, dramatist and poets who
are given national adjectives.

Writers such as biographers, journalists, etc. are subdivided geographically.

Example:

Collective biographers of American poets
American poets – Biography
Collective Biographers of American composers or journalists

Composers – United States – Biography
Persons from one country living or working in a foreign country.

10.5.3 Literature

This includes two distinct types of material:
1. Consist of works about literature and such works are assigned topical subject headings for
whatever they are about.
2. Consists of literary works themselves and those works are assigned to describe what the
item is rather than what is about.

Works about Literature

Works about literary forms are the headings such as Drama, Fiction and Poetry.

A work about history of poetry or about criticism of poetry, e.g. Poetry – History and
criticism.

A work about the technique of writing plays, e.g. Drama – Technique.
A form subdivision may also be used.
1. Drama – Dictionaries
2. Poetry – Indexes
Lesser genres such as Science Fiction or Epic poetry are also applicable to works about literature
with topical and form subdivisions added as needed.
Literary works are according to the categories characterized by nationality (American literature,
Mexican literature and Brazilian literature), language, regions, etc. Again for specific forms are
expressed by subdivision.
There are also literatures characterized by areas larger than countries, by languages not limited
to or identified with a single country or by religions such as Buddhist literature. When it is
written in two or more languages it is identified in parenthesis, e.g. Canadian literature (French).
Literatures of minority groups, written in predominant language of that country’s literature are
identified by subdivision indicating the author group, e.g. Literature – African American authors.
With indigenous minority groups written in their own language are given the name of that
language, e.g. Navajo literature.

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