Book with a title in its title (MLA)

Works cited entries

MLA-153

Shanahan, Timothy. Philosophy and Blade Runner. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Lethem, Jonathan. “Lucky Alan” and Other Stories. Doubleday, 2015.

Explain

If the book title contains a title or a term normally italicized, neither italicize the internal title nor place it in quotation marks (as in the first example).
If the title within the title is normally put in quotation marks, retain the quotation marks and italicize the entire title (as in the second example).