French Research Guide

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Covers over 1,140 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and include cited references and related records.

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on modern fiction and  nonfiction writers.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Provides a full-text collection of significant published criticism on the works of contemporary novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other writers. Each entry also includes a listing of principal works and sources for further study.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides complete biographical and critical information on the lives, works, and career's  of the world's most influential literary figures from all genres and time periods.

Dissertation Abstracts
The database provides access to more than 1.6 million dissertations of a  complete range  of academic subjects.

ERIC (Dept. of Education)
ERIC (EBSCOHost)
Indexes journal articles, books, conference papers, standards and guidelines. This  database contains information on all aspects of education, including foreign language education.

Ethnic NewsWatch
A bilingual and comprehensive full text database comprised of newspapers, magazines,  and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. It covers a wide range of  current topics.

Historical Abstract
Indexes over 2,000 journals published throughout the world as well as books  reviewed by history journals. This database is a complete reference guide to the history  of the world (excluding the U.S. & Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Humbul Humanities Hub
Provides an online catalogue of Internet resources relevant to teaching and research in  the humanities. The Hub discovers, evaluates, and describes resources for the study of  English, French, Japanese, German, Spanish, as well as literature, history, classics and  philosophy.

JSTOR
Contains back issues of a wide variety of humanities and social science journals available electronically. For language and literature study, journals include Nineteenth-Century Literature 1986-2001, Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1949-1986, Renaissance Quarterly 1967-2001, Renaissance News 1948-1966, Representations 1983-2001, etc.

MLA Bibliography
Provides bibliographical information for articles in the subjects of literature, language,  linguistics, and folklore from journals, books, proceedings, and dissertations.

PAIS International
A bibliographic index of public and social policy literature of business, law,  international relations, public administration, political science, and other social sciences.

Project MUSE
Provides electronic access to journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history,  cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many more.

Social Science Citation Index
Provides bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in the  world's leading scholarly social sciences journals, covering more than 50 disciplines.

WorldCat
A combined online catalog. Provides records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC  member libraries.

Athena Authors & Texts
(http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)

ClicNet - Culture and Literature
(http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/)

Comédie-Française
(http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/indexes/index.php)

Embassy of France in the U.S.
(http://www.ambafrance-us.org/)

Enlightened Discourse: 18th-Century French Writings (GlobalGate project)
(http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.18.html)

First Year French at UT-Austin (interactive tutorial)
(http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fr/)

French Resources on the Web
(http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/french/)

Gallica
(http://gallica.bnf.fr/)
Provides images and texts from the middle-ages through the nineteenth-century.

Humbul Humanities Hub -- French
(http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/french/)

Le Théatre de la Foire à Paris (by Barry Russell)
(http://www.foires.net/)

National Library of France
(http://www.bnf.fr/)

Voice of the Shuttle: French (UC-Santa Barbara)
(http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=961

Bibliographie Nationale Française. Livres
Comparative Literature
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
French Colonial History
French Forum
French Historical Studies
French Politics and Society
La Lettre du Continent (French Language)
Language Teaching
Modern & Contemporary France
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Studies in French Cinema
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Yale French Studies

A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Arnold; New York: Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1997.  
Ref Call Number: P29 .T69
Covers language and linguistics with concise definitions.

Acquiring French Vocabulary
(http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/vocab.shtml)

Dictionnaire des Synonymes
(http://elsap1.unicaen.fr/dicosyn.html)

French Grammar Central
(http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/gramm.shtml)

French Linguistics
(http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/)

French Listening and Speaking Central
(http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/oral.shtml)

Grand Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais, Anglais-Francais. Paris: Larousse, 1998.  
Call Number: Ref PC2640 .G68

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 
Call Number: Ref P29 .I58
Includes articles on specific languages or language families. Describes many  linguistic sub-specialties and concepts.

Langue du XIXe Siécle
(http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/langueXIX/)

Oxford French Dictionary and Grammar.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Call Number: Ref PC2540.O84
Contains French-English and English-French translations. Provides guide to  French grammar, covering parts of speech, verb conjugation, translation  problems, and so forth.

Tex's French Grammar (University of Texas - Austin)
(http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/)

Thresor de la Langue Francoyse (1606)
(http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/dicos/TLF-NICOT/)

Verb Conjugation (part of ARTFL project)
(http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html)

Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason through Realism. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.  
Call Number: Ref PQ41.D65

Dictionnaire des Ouvres de Tous les Temps et de Tous les Pays: Littérature, Philosophie, Musique, Sciences. 4 volumes. Paris: Paris, S. E. D. E. 1952-54. 
Call Number: Ref AE25.D52

Echos de la Réforme dans la Litteérature de Langue Francaise de 1520 a` 1620. Lewiston [N.Y.]: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
Call Number: PQ239 .C74
Explores the impact of Protestantism on French literature during the Age of  Reformation.

Fabula
(http://www.fabula.org/)
The site has articles on literary theory and criticism.

Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789. Chicago: St. James Press, 1994.
Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present.  Chicago: St. James Press, 1992.
Call Number: Ref PQ41 .L48
Contains a wealthy of entries for individuals and literary movements. Includes  comprehensive bibliographies of works.

Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000.
Call Number: PN45. N94
Introduces French literature philosophy and aesthetic theories in the eighteenth  century.

Littérature Française
(http://www-scd.univ-lyon3.fr/Signets/littfran.htm)

Literary Theory: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Call Number: PN94.E2
Provides explanation of the literary theories which have appeared in the last  century. A bibliography is included.

Littérature de Langue Française en Ligne
(http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/lit.html)

Poesie Francaise
(http://poesie.webnet.fr/)

Republique Internationale des Letters
(http://www.republique-des-lettres.com/republique-des-lettres.php)
Offers articles on literature and literary criticism.

The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Call Number: Ref PQ41.N48
A handbook to literature produced in France and other French-speaking  countries around the world. It highlights not only poets, novelists, and dramatists,  but also historians, statesmen, and philosophers.

Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literature in the 1990s. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. 
Call Number: PQ149.W645
Offers analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France including both  new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts.

Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise. Paris, Letouzey et Ané, 1932-present.
Call Number: Ref CT143 .D5

Les Livres Disponibles. Paris: Cercle de la Librairie, 1977-2004.
Call Number: Ref Z2161 .L8
French books in print.

Actualites Video (VHS). New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1989.
Call Number: PC2121 .A37
French language instructional tape which uses short scenes to present the language in natural settings.

Challenges of French Pronunciation (VHS). Scottsdale, AZ: Teacher's Video Co., 2003.
Call Number: IMC PC2137 .C43

French Vocabulary Builder (CD-ROM). Fremont, Calif.: The Learning Company, 1995.
Call Number: PC2112 .F746

Une Visite a Paris (CD-ROM) Huntsville, Tex.: Educational Filmstrips, 1989. Fairfield, Conn.: distributed by Queue, 1997.
Call Number: PC2112 .T4394
Vive le Francais! [kit] : The Complete French-Language Development Program. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co., 2000.
Call Number: PC2113 .V5

This guide created and maintained by Li Zhang. Created on February 6, 2006.