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).

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