Resources for French
Literary Criticism
- ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This link opens in a new window
ARTFL is a collection of digitized French language texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, ranging from classic works of French literature to journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, The This link opens in a new window
This Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of literary criticism/theory. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries and sub-entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. The Guide is updated annually.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Gale Literature Resource Center offers a wide range of literary resources for researchers to support their own responses, analysis, and thesis statements. It includes primary works, analysis, biographical information, criticism, and reviews that promote interdisciplinary approaches and critical thinking.
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Collections of poetry, prose and drama from authors of diverse, underrepresented groups, reflecting different ethnicities, beliefs and orientations. Includes contemporary and historical criticisms.
Bibliography
- Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new window
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for authors in the U.S. and around the world.
- Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is the online version of the series with the same name that provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of authors from all eras and genres.
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French by ISBN: 9780198661252Publication Date: 1995-05-04The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French presents an authoritative guide not only to ten centuries of literature produced in the territory now called France, but also to the rich literary output of other French-speaking countries around the world. Written by an international team of specialists, entries cover individual authors and works - over 3,000 of them - from the troubadours to Cesaire, and from La Princesse de Cleves to La Vie mode d'emploi.
History Subject Databases
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides historical and cultural coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from journals published worldwide.
- Calvin et Genève 16 This link opens in a new windowThis portal represents all texts by or about John Calvin which have been published in print by the Librairie Droz from 1960 to 2012 with focus on Geneva, Calvin and the beginnings of the French evangelical movement.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
A collection of materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The platform contains databases, books, and journals.
- Index Religiosus This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic records for books, articles, and book reviews covering theology, church history and religious studies. It is updated annually with including both newer and older material.
Primary Source Databases
- Gallica - Bibliothèque Nationale de FranceAn online portal from the National Library of France, this digital repository contains thousands of manuscripts, images, videos, sound recordings, books, and other digital objects.
- EuropeanaThe European Union's digital platform for cultural heritage materials -- artwork, artifacts, books, music, film, and more -- from EU member states.
- Early European Books This link opens in a new window
Early European Books is a collection of European materials from 1455-1700, including modern sciences, travel, Renaissance, Incunabula, church fathers, Reformation, Counter-Reformation, literature, and philosophy, sourced from major European libraries.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that offers rare scholarly resources, including foreign government documents, doctoral dissertations, textbooks, and scientific research materials, as well as six area studies microfilming projects.
- Kanopy Films Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
- Criterion Collection This link opens in a new window
The Criterion Collection showcases the definitive versions of seminal titles in the history of motion pictures in streaming format. This film selection details the history of film in the 20th Century, covering the works of Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, among others.
- Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Film on Demand is a digital video streaming service providing access to educational videos from producers like A&E, PBS, National Geographic, and more. The Master Academic Collection includes videos across various fields of study, including health, humanities, science, business, and archival films.
- UA Video Database - FrenchLink to a database of films in the University of Alabama Libraries video collection. Set to films in French.
- wwitv.com - French TelevisionAn aggregate website that collects live streams from television stations worldwide, including France. Under "Countries" (upper left), you can also watch television streams from other French-speaking countries.
Databases
- Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable indexing art journalism from noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984. Art Index Retrospective cites sources published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as in English. In addition to periodicals, users will find data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
- Caribbean Newspapers,1718-1876 This link opens in a new window
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 is an extensive online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, providing a comprehensive resource for studying Western society, international relations, colonial history, and U.S. relations.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni offers a simple, intuitive research experience, with news, legal and business sources, including French newspapers with archives, such as Le Figaro and Libération.
To browse these publications in Nexis Uni, select Menu at the top left of the screen on the home page and then select All Sources. Once you locate the specific publication, there is a link to the right of the title which will allow you to select Get Documents.
French-Language Newspapers
- Le Monde DiplomatiqueA monthly newspaper focusing mostly on foreign policy and international politics. Has full editorial autoonomy from the daily Le Monde.
- La Presse Canadienne (PC)The French version of the Canadian Press, a wire service that compiles Canadian news reports. Equivalent to the Associated Press (AP).
- UA Institutional RepositoryThe Institutional Repository (IR) is a platform for collecting, preserving, and distributing the scholarly, research, and creative works produced by The University of Alabama community. It supports and supplements academic publishing and scholarly communication via a searchable, open access, web-based publishing platform for scholarly articles, presentations, creative works, theses and dissertations, and more.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, 1743 to present.
- Dissertations and Theses at University of Alabama This link opens in a new window
This database is a companion to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, featuring current research from the University of Alabama with citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses. Full text can be downloaded by authorized University of Alabama users.
- EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) This link opens in a new window
Indexes theses written in participating colleges and universities the United Kingdom. Some of the full-texts are free; others are available for a fee.
Resources for Linguistics
- UA Research Guide for LinguisticsExplore additional resources in the field of Linguistics.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowLinguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from serials published worldwide, coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for Sociological Abstracts, LLC.
- Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLLDB) This link opens in a new window
BLLDB, an online version of BLL, is a crucial resource for bibliographical information in English, German, and Romance linguistics, compiled by the Department of Linguistics at the University Library Frankfurt/Main.
- Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new windowIED Online is a collection of fifteen dictionaries that together reconstruct the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates, and often extensive bibliographical information.