Using Catalogs:
Use the WSU online
catalog to find location and availability of books and other
media in Stewart Library. Books on French literature are generally located
within the call number PQ, and books on French history are
found under the call number DC in the General Collection
on the middle level.
Use World
Cat to find books in other libraries. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login. Stewart
Library Interlibrary Loan
services will order for you.
Use the Catalogue
Collectif de France, Union catalog of the BNF, university and
municipal libraries to locate descriptions of specific collections
within French libraries, and search for individual titles.
Electronic Books:
- ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle.
A site of 295 texts, 94 authors, that allows searching across
an entire work. Public domain texts contributed by members of
the Association des Bibliophiles Universels.
- ARTFL
Project (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury
of the French Language)
- a corpus totaling some 2000 texts representing a broad
range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology
and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the
twentieth centuries. ARTFL is a cooperative project of the
Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF) the University
of Chicago. Includes a French/English and English/French dictionary.
- Athena
- Literature is only one of the sections of this site, but a huge
one. The category "Textes d'auteurs d'expression française"
is a long list of links to full-text French works. The section
on "Books" contains texts of other European writers as well.
- Etext
French Language Resources - University of Virginia Electronic
Text Center's collection of online texts.
- Gallica Classique
- Gallica includes documents of all kinds, not only literary texts.
Texts are arranged chronologically and by themes. Also included
are many reference works, including the classic French dictionaries
and encyclopedias, and a section of images.
- History
of France: Primary Documents - From BYU, primary documents
from antiquity to the present
- A small collection of online books are available from University
of Pennsylvania on French History
and Literature.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular
book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another
library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and other
materials you use to "refer" to. Use these resources for
background information on a topic. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
Online Reference Resources:
Print Reference
Resources:
- Dictionnaire Des Oeuvres Litteraires De Langue Francaise
Reference PQ41.B42 1994
- The New Oxford Companion To Literature In French
Reference PQ41.N49 1995
- Use the library
catalog -
- a useful subject heading is short stories, french.
- Useful keywords are contes or stories and the name of the
author (for example, contes balzac)
- for critical works, enter the name of the author
and criticism (for example genet criticism)
- Some compilations of French short stories can be found upstairs
in the General Collection beginning with the call number PQ1275.
- The Short Story Index - Reference Table 5A - 1st Floor North (Z5917.S5C6)
- covers short stories written in or translated into English that
have appeared in collections and selected periodicals from 1950
to 1999. Search by author, title or subject. Includes references
to stories by French authors including Balzac, Camus, Flaubert,
Gide, Maupassant, Mauriac and Sartre.
- Use the article databases below to find short story criticism.
Article Databases:
To find articles on your
topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- MLA
- MLA International Bibliography is usually the best index for
researching literature and literary criticism topics. MLA provides
article reference for articles in literature, languages,
linguistics, and folklore back to 1963. Updated ten times per
year.
- La Bibliothèque Virtuelle
de Périodiques. Linking only to fulltext, free access e-journals.
Includes all subjects, not just literature, but you can browse
by subject (Dewey numbers). There is a search engine, but it gives
spotty results; browsing is better.
- Arts
& Humanities Search - Citations from many of the world's
leading arts and humanities journals.
1980 - present, updates weekly.
- Academic
Search Premier - Provides some full text articles in over
a thousand magazines and journals
-
Lexis/Nexis Academic - Full-text coverage of many newspapers
from across the US and around the world. Includes French
language.
- Eric
(EbscoHost) - For articles and other types
of information on teaching literature and literary criticism.
- IIPA
-- International Index to Performing Arts - Citations, abstracts
and some full-text articles on all aspects of the performing arts
including plays and playwrights.
- JSTOR
- A group of full-text journals in many subjects, including
literature. Dates of coverage vary.
- Masterplots - 12,000 entries covering world literature,
ancient to modern day. Plot summaries, character profiles and
author biographies. In Stewart Library use Ref Station #33. Ask
for CD at Reference Desk.
Newspapers:
Browsing Current Periodicals:
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the
"PQ" section on the Middle level. Bound volumes of older
issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks.
Electronic Journals:
The library provides access
to several electronic
journals, including:
Web Resources
Here are
some WWW sites to get you started. Most of these will take you to
other links, so explore!
French Search
Engines:
Meta Sites:
- Tennessee Bob's Famous
French Links - 5,000+ links, a great place to start.
Most "links" on the list lead to a page of hundreds of links.
- Alapage : Livres disponibles
: A French Books in Print - Alapage is a Web version
of FrenchBooks in Print: "Alapage vous propose tous les livres
et tous les disques disponibles sur le marché français, soit 400
000 références."
- WESS Web - From
the Western European Studies Section at ACRL. An
award-winning site, easily navigated by national literatures and
area studies, resources on contemporary Europe, library resources,
text collections, and book reviews.
- Littérature
de langue française en ligne. A site maintained by the PhD
Program in French at the Graduate Center of the City University
of New York. Links of libraries, author sites, online texts, theater,
dictionaries, francophone literature, etc. Simple format, good
content.
Literature Sites:
- ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
- Free access to French texts in the public domain.
- ClicNet
- Access to full text novels and stories. "ClicNet
édite ou localise des ressources virtuelles en français pour les
étudiants, les enseignants de français langue étrangère (FLE)
ou langue seconde (FLS), et tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux cultures,
aux arts et aux littératures francophones."
- DIX-NEUF
- Ressources sur le dix-neuvième siècle:From the University of
Bristol, this site has excellent links to 19th century writers,
as well as many other 19th century resources.
- French
Studies Web (ACRL/WESS) - provides annotated links to scholarly
web resources
- Google Directories:
- HAPAX : French Resources
on the Web - links to French-related resources on the Web
of interest to university-level teachers and students.
- Humbul Humanities
Hub: French Studies - Links to sites from Oxford University
- Librairies
Francophones - A list of book sellers and book-related groups
in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.
- Voice
of the Shuttle: French Literature - Voice of the Shuttle is
a huge site from UC Santa Barbara for all types of Humanities
research.
History Sites:
- BBC
Animation: The Fall of France
- The
European Enlightenment
- Exploring the French
Revolution - This site with more than 12 essays, 250 images,
600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Center for History
and New Media and American Social History Project (City University
of New York).
- H-France - Society for
French Historical Studies
- France.com
- Introduction to French History
- French
Studies Web (from WESS Web): History - Lists of links on documents,
reference works, libraries, archives, societies, collections,
etc.
- Google
Directory: France: History - Long list of links
- Monuments of Paris
-
Napoleon
- Informative PBS site on Napoleon
- Napoleon Bonaparte:Internet
Guide - A clearinghouse of links
-
Napoleon.org
- Napoleon.org is produced by The Fondation Napoleon which
has as its mission the encouragement of the study of and in
interest in the history of the First and Second Empires. The
website is bilingual (French/English), updated daily,and includes:a
weekly newsletter, - Essential Napoleon (Napoleon fundamentals),
Fun stuff (Napoleonic postcards, music, recipes, jigsaws, and
quizzes.
- Le Poulet Gauche -
Le Poulet Gauche is a detailed guide to the history, culture,
and daily life of 16th century France.
- Use Internet
search engines to find more links
Sites on Paris:
Culture:
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