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French
LIBRARY RESOURCES for FRE241
Reading French Literature
 
Course description
This course introduces students to a variety of critical approaches; it provides a basic literary framework through the analysis of selected texts that represent a range of genres and periods.
Reference material
GENERAL | DICTIONARIES | BIOGRAPHICAL | ENCYCLOPEDIAS | BIBLIOGRAPHIES & INDEXES
GENERAL
French culture, 1900-1975. Edited by Catharine Savage Brosman ; associate editors, Tom Conley ... et al. Detroit : Gale Research, c1995.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 944.08 B87

Guide to French literature. Anthony Levi. London ; Chicago : St. James Press, 1992-1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 L66

The Oxford companion to fairy tales. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 398.21 Z79o

The new Oxford companion to literature in French. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1995.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 F81

The Oxford guide to literature in English translation. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 809 F81

DICTIONARIES
Dictionnaire Bordas de littérature française et francophone
. Henri Lemaître. Paris : Bordas, 1986.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 L54

Dictionnaire grandes oeuvres de la littérature française. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais. Paris : Larousse, 1997.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 B37o 1997

Dictionnaire historique, thématique et technique des littératures : littératures française et étrangères, anciennes et modernes. Paris : Larousse, c1985-c1986.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 803 D556

Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue française. Jean-Pierre d Beaumarchais. Paris : Bordas, c1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 B37o

Dictionnaire des termes littéraires. Hendrik van Gorp ... et al ; avec la collaboration de J. Baetens ... et al. Paris : H. Champion, 2001.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 803 G67

Dictionnaire universel des littératures.  Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 803 D55d

BIOGRAPHICAL...
Dictionnaire des femmes-écrivains de langue française
. Philippe Drouillard. Paris : Le Grand livre du mois, 1990.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 D78

French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 F87

Nineteenth century French fiction writers : romanticism and realism, 1800-1860. Detroit : Gale Research, c1992.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 843.709 N714

Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs : de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Paris : R. Laffont, c1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 920.02 N93

ENCYCLOPEDIA
Encyclopedia of modern French thought
. Christopher John Murray, editor. New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 944.08103 M97

The feminist encyclopedia of French literature
. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.99287 S25
BIBLIOGRAPHIES & indexes
An annotated bibliography of French language and literature
. Fernande Bassan. New York : Garland, 1977.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 016.84 B31

French language and literature : an annotated bibliography. Fernande Bassan. New York : Garland, 1989.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 016.44 B32

Index to fairy tales, 1987-1992 : including 310 collections of fairy tales, folktales, myths, and legends : with significant pre-1987 titles not previously indexed. Joseph W. Sprug. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 016.3982 S77
Catalogue searching
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Subject Heading searches

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Some general subject headings
Voyager Subject HeadingFairy tales France and relevant subdivisions, eg. History and criticism
Voyager Subject HeadingMotion pictures France History

Themes & topics
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LYRIC POETRY AND SURREALISM
Baudelaire
Voyager Subject HeadingBaudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
The Baudelaire Database contains more than 10,000 bibliographic citations compiled from book excerpts, reviews, journal articles, and various ephemera. 
www.poetes.com/baud/  
www.angelfire.com/ct/edarling/index.html

Mallarmé
Voyager Subject HeadingMallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898
www.philagora.net/auteurs/mallarme.htm
persoweb.francenet.fr/~maulpoix/Mallarme.html
www.poetes.com/mallarme/ www.nemoclub.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=19
Les grandes heures de Valvins: www.alliancefr.com/culture/mallarme/valvins.htmlagora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Stephane_Mallarme
Portrait du poète en araignée. J.M. Maulpoix.

Rimbaud
Voyager Subject HeadingRimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891
An introduction to Rimbaud / Tony McNeill: http://seacoast.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/rimbaud/rimbmain.htm
Oeuvres Complètes, hypermedia.univ-paris8.fr/bibliotheque/Rimbaud/Rimbaud.html
www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/  
www.poetes.com/rimbaud/ 
T
he drunken boat, members.tripod.com/RoadSide6/frames.html

Verlaine
Voyager Subject HeadingVerlaine, Paul, 1844-1896
agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Paul_Verlaine

Victor Hugo 
Voyager Subject HeadingHugo, Victor, 1802-1885
V.Hugo au site des poètes conçu par Jacques Lemaire: poetes.com/hugo 
Hugo, des textes en ligne, abu.cnam.fr/BIB/auteurs/hugov.html
V.Hugo, Mémoire de Maîtrise présenté par Emilie BOZON, www.multimania.com/djdc 
Textes Etudes: Hugo /Bac 2001, www.multimania.com/jccau/ressourc/hugo/index.htm 
Victor Hugo par Jean-Pierre Rosnay,  perso.wanadoo.fr/yjohri/giraudoux.htm 
La maison de Victor Hugo, www.paris.org/Musees/Hugo/

Guernsey's official V.Hugo site, www.victorhugo.gg/default.aspx
www.victorhugo.culture.fr/
Portail pédagogique, www.victorhugo.education.fr/
Victor Hugo Central, www.gavroche.org/vhugo/sitemap.shtml

Dictionnaire des Misérables : dictionnaire encyclopédique du roman de Victor Hugo réalisé à l'aide des nouvelles technologies. Hubert de Phalèse. Paris : Nizet, 1994
GENERAL LIBRARY Not to be borrowed 843.78 GmX

A Victor Hugo encyclopedia. John Andrew Frey ; foreword by Arnaud Laster. 
Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1999. 
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 843.78 X

Victor Hugo, un génie sans frontières : dictionnaire de sa vie et de son oeuvre. Philippe van Tieghem. Paris : Libr. Larousse, c1985.
GENERAL LIBRARY 841.78 Xv

LA BELLE ET LA BETE
Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête
Voyager Subject HeadingCocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 and relevant subdivisions, eg. Biography | Criticism and interpretation  
Films de France: review of the movie, frenchfilms.topcities.com/nf_La_belle_et_la_bete_rev.html
Entrez chez Jean Cocteau. Includes texts, images etc, http://leonicat.club.fr/cocteau/cocteau.htm
Includes images from film, www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lenin/Jean_Cocteau_BATB.html
'La Belle et la Bête': what Cocteau's film fable tells us about society, politics, gender and sexual identity in post-war France.(Jean Cocteau) (Film In Context) History Today, July, 1996, by Susan Hayward, 
AlloCiné's La Belle at la Bête page, www.allocine.fr/film/anecdote_gen_cfilm=772.html

Perrault and La Belle et la Bête
Voyager Subject HeadingPerrault, Charles, 1628-1703 and relevant subdivisions, eg. Contes des fées | Criticism and interpretation
www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/perrault.html, produced by the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse.

Madame Leprince de Beaumont
Voyager Subject HeadingLeprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780. Belle et la bête
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/beaumont.html, produced by the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse.
www.ricochet-jeunes.org/livre.asp?livreid=15&them=Conte, produced by the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse. Focusses on the work, including different editions.

Disney and Beauty and the Beast
www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/films/beautycinema.html, looks at the translation of Mme Leprince de Beaumont's tale to the animated screen.
disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/beautyandthebeast/, the official Disney web site.
Chris Carter's page, www.ilhawaii.net/~beast/pages/bbeast.htm
beauty.rivkashome.com/, a personal page with some useful links.

General, Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast : a fairy tale in a prologue and two acts. Page of the World Premiere of Beauty and the Beast, BalletMet Columbus, April 24, 1997, which include some interesting links to different versions of this work: www.balletmet.org/Notes/BNB98-99.html
www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/history.html
Lost illusion : Beauty and the Beast, http://lostillusion.net/LI/
PROSPER MERIMEE
The original text of Colombo on ABU (La Bibliothèque Universelle),  abu.cnam.fr/BIB/auteurs/merimeep.html
The English text of Colombo and Carmen from Project Gutenberg, onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2708
Alalettre's biography of Merimée, www.alalettre.com/merimee-bio.php
The index at Alalettre also provides information specifically about Colombo, www.alalettre.com/
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905-1980)
Voyager Subject HeadingSartre Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 and relevant subdivisions, eg. Appreciation | Dramatic works
Sartre online, www.geocities.com/sartresite/ includes biographical information, related works and links.
Jean-Paul Sartre. Christopher Scott Wyatt's page, http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/sartre.shtml
The Nobel E-Museums biography of Sartre, nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1964/sartre-bio.html
Jean-Paul Sartre: philosophy and existentialism, www.sartre.org.uk Site by Donald Robertson, covers online texts, chronology and related links. 
Jean-Paul Sartre archive, www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/ Collection of works by and related to Sartre.
The Cry, www.thecry.com/existentialism/sartre/index.html
Jean-Paul Sartre : existentialism, www.iep.utm.edu/s/sartre-ex.htm From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004.
Huis Clos: www.alalettre.com/sartre-huisclos.php | www.cdrnet.net/kb/data/FR_Sartre.asp
Jean-Paul Sartre. people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/sartrebio.html From Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999.
The Existential Primer, www.tameri.com/csw/exist/
The North American Sartre Society, condor.stcloudstate.edu/~phil/nass/home.html

101 key terms in philosophy and their importance for theology. Kelly James Clark, Richard Lints, James K.A. Smith. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 103 C58

Philosophical dictionary. Mario Bunge. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 103 B94 2003

Dictionary of existentialism. Edited by Haim Gordon. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 142.7803 G66

Indexing databases
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MLA International Bibliography Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering literary and language scholarships, it indexes and abstracts over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, bibliographies, and more. 

Expanded Academic FULL TEXT FULL TEXT  indexed and full-text academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Includes arts and humanities, with unique fulltext holdings of titles such as Sartre studies international and Michigan academician.
 
Academic Research Library
FULL TEXT   Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, humanities,  multi- cultural issues. social sciences, and women's studies (includes, eg. Latin American literary review, Latin American politics and society, Latin American perspectives)
 
Academic Search Premier
FULL TEXT  Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 7,000 journals, with full-text coverage for almost 4,000 titles. Covers a wide range of subject areas: social sciences, arts and literature, science, multi-cultural studies, and more.

File last updated :  June 9, 2009 .
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