Modern Languages and Literature

Reference Materials

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
3rd Floor, PN771 .C575 1980
Arranged alphabetically by author, this work provides short biographies and critical essays. Includes more extensive essays on general subjects (i.e. French Literature, German Literature). Entries include bibliographical information and cross-references.

Contemporary Authors
Reference, 1st Floor Z1223 .C6
Provides biographical and bibliographic information for authors writing in all genres and languages. Each essay includes a bibliography for further reading, referencing both books and periodicals.

Contemporary Foreign Language Writers
3rd Floor PN771 .C585 1984
Arranged alphabetically by author, this work provides biographical information, bibliographies of publications and critical studies, and a short essay for each author. Includes a title index.

Contemporary Native American Authors
3rd Floor PS153 .I52 J87 1997
Alphabetical listing of authors includes biographical and bibliographic information. Features information about tribal affiliation, publications, pseudonyms, and critical bibliography.

Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principle Indo-European Languages: A contribution to the History of Ideas
Reference 1st Floor, P765 .B8
This historically interesting 1949 volume is arranged in chapters that seek to describe ideas based on the linguistic similarities or differences of words and expressions. Words to describe "time," "warfare," "dwelling, house, furniture," are provided in 31 languages, and unusual characteristics are discussed within each language.

Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
Reference 1st Floor P.29 .E48 1994
This extensive work provides full essays on languages, their status in different countries, significant figures in the study of languages, and linguistics. Each essay includes a bibliography. Volume 10 provides a comprehensive glossary and index.

Encyclopedia of the Novel
Reference 1st Floor PN41 .E487 1998
This current reference resource provides essays on individual novels and authors from many different languages. Also provides more general essays (i.e.: "Chinese Novel: Beginnings to the 20th Century"). Each essay includes bibliographical material. Arranged alphabetically with a general index.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages
Reference 1st Floor, P29 .C68 1992
This alphabetic listing of languages and language terms provides a basic background for each language and simple description of each linguistic term. Includes cross-references.

French XX Bibliography
3rd Floor PQ103 .Z9x A45
A serial publication arranged primarily by author, this work provides comprehensive yearly bibliographic references for French Literature.

Guide to French Literature
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PQ41 .L48 1992 
This 2 volume work provides lengthy essays on various themes and authors in French Literature. Essays are arranged alphabetically by author or topic. Includes a title index as well as a general index.

MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Reference 1st Floor, PN 41 .Z9x M63
This is a comprehensive bibliography of books and journal articles on modern languages. The work is arranged by area of study (i.e.: British and Irish Literatures; American Literature; European Literature). Includes an author index. Also available as a database (see DATABASES below).

Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Reference 1st Floor, P29 .B875 1996
This alphabetical listing of language and linguistics terms provides precise definitions, and cross-references to related terms. Provides bibliographical references to other pertinent publications.

Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language
3rd Floor, PC4071 .Z9x B54 1983
This is a comprehensive annotated bibliography that includes both author and title indexes. Arranged by topics, it includes citations for Hispanic Literature, Literary Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Histories of Hispanic Literatures, Anthologies, Chicano Literature, Literature in Translation and other helpful topics.

Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Reference 1st Floor, PN771 .G27
Provides brief biographical information and lists of works for each author. Main content includes excerpts from the criticism of the authors' works. Cumulative Author index with cross references available.

The World's Major Languages
Reference, 1st Floor, P371 .W6 1987
This work, organized by language family, provides essays on each of the world's languages. Includes historical information, morphology, syntax, phonology and a bibliography.

Journals

Akzente
German Literature, 20th Century
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Anales de la literature Espanola contemporanea
Spanish literature, 20th Century
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Archivum Linguisticum
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Comparative Literature
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Confluencia
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Estreno
20th Century Spanish Drama
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Fichero bibliografico hispanoamericano
Bibliography of Spanish-American Literature
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French Review
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German Studies Review
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Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century
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Language
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Modern Language Journal
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Modern Language Notes
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Modern Language Quarterly
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Modern Language Review
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Nouvelle Revue Francaise; Revue Mensuelle de Litterature et de Critique
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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
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Revue d'histoire Litteraire de la France
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Academic Search Premier
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/ase.html
Provides full text for over 1,230 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more.

Biography Index
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/biography.html
Coverage includes more than 2,700 English-language periodicals and more than 1,800 books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews.

Book Review Digest
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/bookrev.html
Critical evaluations are culled from 95 selected journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as library review media published in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.

Essay and General Literature Index
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/essay.html
Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

Humanities Abstracts
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/humabs.html
Periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Full-text is now available for approximately 100 titles.

MLA International Bibliography
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/mla.html
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA International Bibliography Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,200,000 records.

WilsonSelect
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/wilsonselect.html
Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of full-text records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.

WorldCat
http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/worldcat.html
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

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ARTFL Project: the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language at the University of Chicago:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
This page offers links to both areas available only to ARTFL subscribers, as well as public links. This page includes links to ARTFUL collaborative projects such as a collection of Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848. Among the most useful public areas in the Reference collection on this page are:
• ARTFL Dictionnaires d'autrefois:
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/dicos/
  While most ARTFUL databases are not available except by subscription, this link allows the user to search French language dictionaries: La Trésor de la langue française (1606) and the Dictionnaire de L'Academie française (1694, 1798 and 1835). Also includes links to searchable versions of Robert Estienne's 1552 Dictionarium latinogallicum, Jean Nicot, Threysor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne (Paris, David Douceur, 1606), and Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (1740).
  
• ARTFL Project French-English Dictionary:
  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
  Provides English definitions of over 75,000 French words.
  
• Verb conjugator:
  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html
  Conjugates verbs in six tenses.

Biblioteca Nacional de España:
http://www.bne.es/
Provides access to library catalogs. Includes links to publications, international projects and other library information.

Bibliothèque National de France:
http://www.bnf.fr/
Provides access to the catalogs of the Bibliothèque National de France. Includes links to virtual exhibits and other library information.

ETH-Bibliothek:
http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/inhalt_e.html
Provides information about several German libraries, including access to the NEBISWeb OPAC, an online catalog which allows searches of several different German libraries. Also includes links to German and Swiss newspapers and other tools.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World:
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue
Provides a basic description of languages spoken throughout the world. Searchable by language, or by country where the language is spoken. Includes information about number of speakers, countries where the language is spoken, and the lexical similarity with other languages. Includes information about obscure and extinct languages.

Índice de textos de Comedias:
ftp://listserv.ccit.arizona.edu/pub/listserv/comedia/intext.html
Provides an index of full text offerings of many different Spanish dramatists.

Modern Language Association:
http://www.mla.org/
The MLA is the main organization for the study and teaching of language and literature.

Romance Languages Resources Page:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/resources/index.html
Provides links for students of French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, including cultural links and links to resources in film, music and the visual arts.

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages:
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/
Look at the area marked "Internet Language and Literature Resources." Provides links to resources for 10 different languages and a link to the Cambridge Library system.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Page:
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/litother.html
Provides links to resources for many different languages and literatures. Links include language resources, online texts, bibliographies, conferences, organizations and much more. This is one of the most comprehensive language and literature sites available.

Web of Online Grammars:
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html
Provides links to grammars on 96 different languages, plus dictionaries, thesauri and other linguistic resources.

Western European Specialists Section (WESS) Web:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/
Provides links to resources for studies in French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, Iberian, as well as the literatures of Great Britain and Ireland.

Wiley-Nonce Modern Language Resource Center:
http://www.onlang.com/mlrc/index.html
A comprehensive set of Modern Languages resources for students as well as faculty. Includes information about teaching language, online dictionaries, grammars and other learning tools, links to listservs, search engines and newsgroups.

Yamada Language Center: Language Guides:
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html
Provides extensive WWW resources for over 120 languages.

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CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, a WWW Journal:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/
A very new, peer-reviewed journal on the study of literature and culture. Includes articles and book reviews.

WJMLL (Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics):
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jon.west/
Published by the School of Modern Languages University of Newcastle upon Tyne, includes articles and reviews in Modern Languages and Linguistics.

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