Library of Congress classification for French literature
= PQ (and books on French language fall within PC0). French
language literature from other countries will fall within
each countries' classification: Middle East is PJ, African
countries use PL, Canada falls primarily within PR and PQ.
Major Sets
Contemporary
Authors (online only)--see description of Literature
Resource Center below. Search authors by time period,
nation of origin, ethnicity, and name.
Literature
Resource Center-This ollection of resources includes
the MLA Bibliography, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism,
and more. Authors can be searched by selecting nation
of origin, ethnicity, language, gender (and of course
by name)
Dictionary
of Literary Biography (print and online-selective)
Reference collection: PS 21 .D5x (volume no.) The last
volume of the series includes a complete index.
Print volumes include the following:
v. 321 Twentieth-Century French Dramatists
v. 327 Sixteenth-Century French Writers
v. 313-314 Writers of the French Enlightenment
v. 258 Modern French Poets
v. 217 Nineteenth-century French Poets
v. 208 Literature of the French and
Occitan Middle Ages : Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
v. 192 French Dramatists, 1789-1914
v. 119 Nineteenth century French Fiction
Writers: Romanticism and
Realism, 1800-1860
vols. 60, 63, 72, 83, 88,92, 99 Canadian
writers
The online version is selective and available through
Literature
Resource Center.
Grove Art Online-a
major online dictionary. Also available in print inthe
Reference Collection. Ref. N6847 .G758 2000
Grove Music Online-a
major online dictionary. Also available in print in the
Reference Collection. Ref ML100 .N48 2001
Contemporary
Literary Criticism (print and online--selective)--The
print edition (232+ vol.) is in the reference
collection: PN771 .C59
Nineteenth-Century
Literature Criticism (print and online-selective)-The
print edition (178+ volumes) is in the reference colleciton:
PN761 .N56
Twentieth-Century
Literary Criticism (print and online-selective)-The
print edition (185+ volumes) is in the reference collection:
PN771 .G27
The three literary criticism sets collect reviews and
criticism of authors and works. The online versions
are selectively available through Literature
Resource Center.
Additional Books
in Burling
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Bibliotheque nationale de
France
Including
"Ask a reference question":
Gallica : access
to 90,000+ digitized texts
Library
and Archives Canada/Bibliothéque et Archives Canada:
Collections Canada
Embassy of France
in the United States
Ambassade
du Canada, Washington, D.C.
Musee
canadien des civilisations
Radio France Internationale
(RFI)
BBC News-Including news
from Africa and the Middle East
LIMAG: Littératures
du Maghreb
(Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie)
French
Language News and News Magazines
linked from the MIT Libraries
Africa
South of the Sahara from the Stanford Libraries--including
links to newspapers
LeLibraire.com
--a commercial site with information about French books
and authors from countries around the world.
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