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French literature

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  • Robin Canuel 514-398-4698 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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Sources for Background Information

Literary Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

La Francophonie: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Language Dictionaries

Translation and Terminology Dictionaries

Guides to Research and Writing

Searching the Library Catalogue

Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - literature, litterature, france, 19th century etc.

Note that it is not necessary to use diacritics such as ^ ` ¨ when searching the catalogue.

Search tips

Truncation symbol: ? e.g. litter? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words littéraire, littérature, littératures, etc.
Phrase searching: "___" e.g. "litterature francaise" will retrieve catalogue records containing the words littérature française as a phrase
Boolean operators: (), AND, OR, NOT
default: AND		 e.g. litterature AND (francaise OR francophone) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word littérature AND either française OR francophone

Core and Additional Databases

Note: Several excellent article indexes for French Literature are available in print format only.

Article Indexes - In Print

Article Indexes & Full-Text Databases - Online

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It covers over 1,600 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,000 major science and social science journals. Also a great tool for cited reference searching.
  • Bibliographie internationale de l’humanisme et de la Renaissance This database contains all forty-three volumes of the Bibliographie Internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance (B.I.H.R.) published by the International Federation of Societies and Institutes for the Study of the Renaissance. These volumes list books and articles on Humanism and the Renaissance written between 1965 and 2012 by year of publication. Their 280,000 entries and 20,000 names are easily searched.
  • FRANCIS FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. The database contains more than 1.8 million records with abstracts in French or English, subjects in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers and other documents.
  • Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This database offers full text for many of the most important academic sources in the humanities. Humanities Full Text provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas and more.
  • International Medieval Bibliography The International Medieval Bibliography is published by the International Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds and covers all aspects of the European Middle Ages.
  • ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance ITER is a bibliography of more than 1.1 million citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. It includes citations for books and journal material, as well as citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books.
  • Klapp-Online Referred to as the "Klapp" after its original compiler. Covers all periods of French literary history, plus cinema and French culture. Considered the most comprehensive bibliography on French literature. The bibliographic years 1991 - 2011 are accessible electronically.
  • MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for scholarly books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, which have been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926. Contains material on literature from all over the world in several different languages.
  • Repère Repère is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database containing more than 550,000 references to articles from French-language periodicals published since 1980. Good source for locating articles published in Quebec journals.
  • Translation Studies Bibliography Translation Studies Bibliography is an annotated bibliography of the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. The following categories of publications are included: journal articles, monographs, articles from collective volumes, reviews, reference materials, dissertations and unpublished manuscripts.

Primary Sources

Periodical Archives

Theses and Dissertations

French Language Newspapers

Catalogues

Library Catalogues

Books in Print Catalogues

Selected Internet Sites

Other Resources

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