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Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Electronic Reference Sources

  MLA Bibliography
ABOUT     Oxford Reference Online - Modern Languages.
Concise English-French and French-English dictionaries online.
Le Trésor de la Langue Français
Authoritative French-French dictionary.
Literature Resource Center
(Funded in part by the State of Maine)
Basic information and excerpts from criticism on authors and their works.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
Covers from 1945 to current topics.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Second Edition)
Extensive, up-to-date.
Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature

A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia
  AH Search
ABOUT  
Print Indexes

Bibliographie der Franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft
Reference Z 2171 .B56

French XX Bibliography
Reference Z 2171 .F7

Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
Reference Z 7003 .Y9

Full Texts Online

ARTFL Project ABOUT

CESAR       Resources on French theater of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Web Resources

WESSWEB - French Studies Web. A selective, scholarly collection of web resources which includes literature, history, and culture.

nomade.fr: le guide qui trouve. A kind of "Yahoo" for the "Web Francophone"--fun!

French Connection. User-friendly megasite with links to lots of different culturally-related sites.

ClicNet: un site culturel et littéraire francophone. A metasite rich in content, though lean on graphics; in French.

Surrealist Writers. A combination of information and links to other sites about this literary/artistic movement.

The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics.
Over 1500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres.

Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

Electronic Journals

Newspapers & Other News Sources (from the French Studies Web).

Le Monde (edition electronique). The most famous French daily newspaper, online edition.

Liberation. French online daily newspaper, with many features.

Le Nouvel Observateur. Another French newspaper.

Paris Match, popular weekly news magazine.

Important Reference Works

Critical Bibliography of French Literature
Reference Z 2171 .C3

Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Litteraires du Quebec
Reference PQ 3901 .D561 1980

French Women Writers
Reference PQ 149 .F73 1991

Guide to French Literature
Reference PQ 226 .L48 1992

Guide to French Poetry Explication
Reference Z 2174.P7 C65 1993

New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
Reference PQ 41 .N48 1995

Pertinent Subject Headings

French Language--Dictionaries--English (link via the Library's catalog).

French Literature (can be subdivided by time period, genre, topic, etc.)
(link via the Library's catalog).

List of current French-language newspapers and periodicals in the Library.

Library contact:

For more information, contact:

Tom Hayward
Humanities Reference Librarian
(207) 786-8323
e-mail: thayward AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240
(207) 786-6263


Page author: Tom Hayward
Date: 1/10/08


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