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Library Liaison
Claudia Bissett
Contents
Selected Reference Books
Find Journal Articles
Find Books
Foreign Language Newspapers
Selected Modern Language
Journals Available in Print
Selected Websites
How to Cite Your Sources
Course Guides
FR 356 – French Poetry I
FR 365 – 18th Century French
Literature
FR 371 – French Women
Writers
GR 321 – German Business
Department Website
Modern Languages Department
Modern Languages Department
Homepage
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Dictionaries
Cassell's French Dictionary
Ref PC 2640 .C32
Cassell's New German English Dictionary
Ref PF 3640 .B84
The Oxford Russian English Dictionary
Ref PG 2640 .W5
The Oxford Spanish Dictionary
Ref PC 4640 .O94
French Literature
Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason Through Realism
Ref PQ 41 .D65
Dictionnaire des Ouvres Littéraires de Langue Française
Ref PQ 41 .B42
French-Canadian Authors: A Bibliography of Their Works and of English-Language Criticism
Ref PQ 3901 .K35
French Culture, 1900–1975
Ref DC 33.7 .F726
Littérature Française, Publiée sous la Direction de Joseph Bédier [et] Paul Hazard
Ref PQ 101 .B3
A New History of French Literature
Ref PQ 119 .N48
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
Ref PQ 41 .N49
German Literature
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945
Ref PN 849.E9 S444
Encyclopedia of German Literature
Ref PT 91 .E53 2000 v.1–2
Grundbegriffe der Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften
General Collection PN41 .G78
Hauptwerke der deutschen Literatur: Darstellungen u. Interpretationen
Ref PT 41 .K6
Modern German literature
Ref PT 401. D65
The Oxford Companion to German Literature
Ref PT 41 .G3
Russian Literature
The Golden Age of Russian Literature
General Collection PG3012 .S65
Handbook of Russian Literature
Ref PG 2940 .H29
The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures
Ref PG 2940 .M62
Modern Slavic Literatures
Ref PG 501 .M518
Nineteenth-century Russian Literature in English: A Bibliography of Criticism and Translations
Ref PG 3012 .P76
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Ref PG 2940 .R44
Spanish/Spanish American/Latin American Literature
The 20th-century Spanish-American Novel: A Bibliographic Guide
Ref PQ 7082 .N7 F6
Antologia General de la Literature Espanola: Verso, Rosa, Teatro 2 v.
Ref PQ 6172 .R48
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Ref PQ 7081.A1 C35
Diccionario de Literatura Espanola e Hispanoamericana
Ref PQ 6006 .D6
Ensayo de un Diccionario de la Literatura
Ref PC 4680 .S3
Latin American Literature and its Times
Ref PQ 7081 .M625
Latin American Writers
Ref PQ 7081.A1 L37
Modern Latin American Literature
Ref PQ 7081.F63
The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature
Ref PQ 6006 .O93
Spanish American Authors: The Twentieth Century
Ref PQ 7081.3 .F57
Spanish-American Literature in Translation
Ref PQ 7083 .J6 v. 1–2
Spanish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book
Ref PQ 7081.S6
Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and their Times: (the Iberian Pennisula)
Ref PQ 6041 .M67
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Search the following indexes to locate citations to and/or full-text of journal articles. If the article does not appear to be full-text
online, search for its availability using the Journal Finder. Journals listed as "in Geisel Library Paper Holdings" are shelved alphabetically by journal title on the Lower Level of the library. Many others are available full-text online by following the links provided.
Literature
MLA International Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, this electronic index consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. (1963–present) User Guide
Literature Resource Center
Find biographical information on authors, as well as bibliographies, plot summaries, and literary criticism of their works. This resource also provides the full text of articles from more than 100 literary journals. User Guide
Academic Search Premier
A broad index providing abstracts and some full-text for a range of academic areas, including modern languages.
Culture and Civilization
Historical Abstracts
Provides abstracts to journal articles, books, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 to the present (excluding North America).
ITER
"Iter's bibliography covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700). Citations for journal articles (1842–present), reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs (1995–present), and material published in monographs and collections of essays." User Guide
Handbook of Latin American Studies
"The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities...Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology. Starting with Volume 54, the Handbook also includes a section on Electronic Resources for Latin American studies. In addition, some of the earlier volumes included other disciplines such as Cartography, Film, Folklore, Law, and so forth." (1935–present) List of Journal Abbreviations
Arts & Humanities Citation Index via Firstsearch
Provides indexing to the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selections from social science and science journals. Includes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews. (1980–present)
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Search the library catalog to locate books in Geisel Library. Search by keyword if you are unsure of the title you are looking for. Books covering language, literature, culture and civilization of France, Germany, Russia, Spain, and South and Central America are located throughout the library; works covering specific languages and literatures are located on the Upper Level in the following areas:
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Romance languages
West Germanic languages
Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature (including Russian)
Romance literatures
Germanic literatures
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ARTFL Project
A collection of French-language texts "ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts." Also included is "a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy."
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LexisNexis Academic
To search for full-text newspaper articles from international papers, use the Select Sources drop-down box to choose "Non-US Newspapers and Wires." Foreign-language publications are also available. Next to Select Sources, choose "Non-English Language News, World Library." For publications in specific languages, choose one of the language-specific source categories, such as "Toute la Presse – Francais" or "Spanish Language News, Combined." Click on the small blue "i" icon to view a list of titles in each category.
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(located in the Library Periodicals Department – Lower Level)
- L'Esprit Createur
- Le Francais dans le Monde
- The French Review
- German Quarterly
- Germanic Review
- Hispania
- Hispanic Journal
- MLN (Modern Language Notes)
- The Modern Language Journal
- Modern Language Studies
- PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America)
- Presence Francophone
- Revista Iberoamericana
- Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de la France
- Romanic Review
- Russian Review
- Symposium
- Die Unterrichtspraxis
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Searching the World Wide Web can yield a vast amount of information, but in terms of quality and reliability, your results may be uneven at best. The ease and speed with which individuals can publish information on the web, regardless of accuracy or quality, makes it imperative that when doing research on the web you know how to evaluate the information you find. To learn more, see Judging What You Find.
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
ARTFL Project
This collection includes French and English dictionaries as well as a searchable version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie.
Alpha Dictionary Language Directory
Links to dictionaries in approximately 300 languages
Logos Dictionary
YourDictionary.com
"YourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language related products and services on the world wide web. YourDictionary.com has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1,500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages)."
Additional Links on the Web
iLoveLanguages
"iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer,... [including]... online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about."
WESSWEB
"The Western European Studies Section (WESS) is part of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. WESS is professionally involved in the acquisition, organization, and use of information sources originating in or related to Western European countries. Our aim is to promote the improvement of library services supporting study and research in Western European affairs from ancient times to the present."
Links by Country/Language
Austrian Cultural Information
The French Ministry (Ministere de la culture et de la communication)
German Embassy in Washington
Russian and Eastern European Studies Virtual Library
Spanish and Spanish American Literatures
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See the library's How To Cite Your Sources guide for resources on how to properly cite research materials. Always confirm the style required by your instructor.
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