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Resources for FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE

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    DATABASES USEFUL FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

    • America : History and Life
      This database covers U.S. and Canadian history, area studies, current affairs, from 1963 - present
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Search 1980-present
      Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
    • Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
      Comprised of over 23 separate databases, CHIN is an information gateway to museums, galleries, and material culture and heritage in Canada.
    • Galenet Gale Literary Databases:
      • Dictionary of Literary Biography
        Provides biographical and critical coverage of authors in lengthy essays. Includes several volumes dedicated to French literature.
      • Contemporary Authors
        Provides biographical sketches often accompanied by authors' comments.
      • Contemporary Literary Criticism
        Includes living authors and those who died after 1959.
    • Historical Abstracts
      Historical Abstracts indexes world literature in history, related social sciences, humanities, from 1973-present
    • Humanities Full Text
      a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
    • PapersFirst 1993-present
      Coverage includes papers in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
    • Proceedings 1993-present
      Coverage includes citations of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
    • Web of Science (via Web of Knowledge)
      The Web of Science offers citation searching on authors and co-authors, keyword searching of abstracts, titles, and KeyWords Plus, and other enhanced access to the following three databases :
      • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1994-present
      • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1994-present
      • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1994-present
        A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social journals.

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Electronic Journals and Citations


    ELECTRONIC JOURNALS IN THE LIBRARY

    • JSTOR
      Journal Storage - an archive of older journal titles.
    • Project Muse
      Johns Hopkins University Press journals, including Modern Language Notes (MLN)

    ELECTRONIC JOURNALS VIA THE INTERNET

    • Le Monde
      Online version of the print newspaper.
    • Libération
      Online version of the print newspaper. To gain complete access, one must subscribe. However, there are many articles available free.
    • Le Francophile
      Online journal concerned with French culture

    STYLE GUIDES


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Teaching and Learning


  • ERIC
    ERIC is the premier national bibliographic database of education literature, 1966+. Look here to find information on teaching theories, methods, curriculum etc.
  • UConn Subject Web : Education
  • Education World
    This site is a good starting place for materials on teaching foreign languages. It provides links to sites with tools for test, lesson plans, self-study, songs, sound clips, information on culture, and standards.
  • UCLA Language Materials Project
    This site focuses on less commonly taught languages, like French Creole, Haitian creole. The Scout Report says "It categorizes more than 3,500 resources covering 80 languages, and allows users to specify the language and the type of resource they are seeking. Resources include books, audiocassettes, videos, and various multimedia packages that target individual teaching needs. In addition, the site offers cultural and linguistic profiles of dozens of less commonly taught languages, and features links to a number of similarly useful language-teaching Websites."
  • WestEd: Technology in Education
    The Scout Report describes this site : "WestEd's Technology in Education site is designed to disseminate educational information. They offer an array of services & resources to assist educators, educational agencies, policy makers in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational technology."
  • National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
    Site includes all NCBE publications, plus databases, journal articles, and many links to related sites.
  • American Association of Teachers of French
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
    Includes full-text resources available for downloading - proficiency guidelines and standards, white papers,
  • Connecticut Council of Language Teachers

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Key Web Sites


DICTIONARIES

    Dictionaries: French

    Dictionaries: Historical

    Dictionaries: Regional

    • Comparative Lexicography of French and English in Canada
      This site is still under construction ; when complete, the goal of the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project is to produce a truly Canadian English-French, French-English dictionary and to develop an electronic database of English- and French- Canadian texts for comparative work in the fields of translation and lexical research. Begun in 1988, this is a cooperative project between the University of Ottowa, University of Montreal, and Laval University.
    • Le Dictionnaire francophone en ligne!
      Put online by the publisher Hachette, this dictionary takes a standard French word, defines it, and gives its equivalent or any variants in a wide range of francophone countries; it also translates francophone words into standard French.
    • L'Université des réseaux d'expression française (UREF)
      Provides online access to the following francophone dictionaries : Le Français au Burundi, Le Français en Centrafrique, Le Français à l'Ile Maurice, Le Français en Nouvelle Calédonie, Le Français de la Réunion

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CONCORDANCES AND FULL-TEXT

    Concordances and Full-Text: Prose
    • Le Château
      This site provides some full-text resources in French literature. Arranged by literary type, the resources are downloadable in compressed files.
    • Constitution of the Fifth Republic
    • Gallica
      Gallica is an experimental server maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France which contains numerous electronic texts, images, animation and sound files of French literature.
    • Le Petit Prince
      This site provides links to various translated editions of this wonderful work.
    • Project Guttenberg
      Public domain e-texts that can be downloaded.
    • University of Virginia : French collection
      Most of the texts provided on this site are for the UVA community only. However, there is still a substantial number of e-texts available to make this site a worthwhile peruse. There is a nice page of other French web resources.

    Concordances and Full-Text: Poetry

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HISTORIES OF THE LITERATURE

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AUTHORS
To find more sites on specific French authors, try an advanced Yahoo! search. Use the author's name (last name works best) and choosing either "intelligent default" or "exact phrase."

    Various authors
    • The Library
      Provides brief biographies, photographs, lists of selected translation of works, and some text excerpts.

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    • Patrick Chamoiseau
      This site, which is currently under construction, contains a brief biography and bibliography of the author.

    Marcel Proust

    • The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
      The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research is a project of the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project is devoted to the study of the French author Marcel Proust and his time. Their aim is to demonstrate the utility of Internet distribution of research documents in the humanities, and the possibility of carrying out original research at a distance. The site (available in English or French) contains a bibliography, correspondence, and related websites.

    Stéphane Mallarmé

    Arthur Rimbaud

    • Rimbaud Web
      This site boasts that it is "tout Rimbaud sur internet." And indeed it just may well be. There's a magazine Rimbaudzine, photographs, as well as the poet's works and letters. There are links to Bibliothèque Rimbaud and the Musée Rimbaud, and other Rimbaud societies and groups.

    Antoine de Saint Exupéry

    Gabrielle Roy

    • Groupe de recherche sur Gabrielle Roy
      This group at McGill focuses on current research on Gabrielle Roy, in particular on her unpublished writings. They provide biographical and bibliographical information about Roy and a guide to her archives.

    Voltaire

    • Voltaire Foundation
      This site contains links to and information about Voltaire and the Enlightenment. There is also an alphabetic list of his writings, a list of publications of the Foundation, and information about various Voltaire events.

    Émile Zola

    Francophone women writers

    • Ecrivains français d'outre mer
      Maintained by the French Ministrè des affairs étrangères, this site provides essays on various aspects of francophone literature.
    • Femmes Ecrivains et littérature africaine francophone
      Made available by the Department of French Studies, School of European Languages at the University of Western Australia, this site, available in French or modified English, provides textual and bibliographic information on francophone African women writers. There are photographs, brief biographical sketches, full-text interviews of selected authors from the magazine, Amina. Also available are lists of published works translated into English, as well a selected listing of unpublished works, many of which are available in full-text.
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LITERARY MOVEMENTS / GENRES

  • International Dada Archive
    Still under construction, site provides information on the resources and services of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries. When complete, the site aims to become a resource for bibliographical information about the historic Dada movement and the individual Dada writers and artists.
  • Oulipo (OUvroir de LIttérature POtentielle)
    The website for Oulipo, the group co- founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, offers a history of the movement, list of members, bibliographies and some of the basic texts.


FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES

    Francophone: General

    Francophone: Africa

    • LIMAG : Littératures du Maghreb
      Covers the literatures of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia., emphasizing modern/contemporary authors. Some features are a list of events relating to Maghrebian literature, a list of related sites on the Internet, bibliographies, dissertations, as well as two full-text periodicals: Etudes littéraires maghrébines and Littératures Maghrébines et Comparées.

    Francophone: Canada

    • Early Canadiana Online (ECO)
      This site appears in the Scout Report review, which describes it as an "outstanding online library of primary sources in Canadian history from the arrival of the first Europeans to the late 19th century,." The site emphasizes literature, women's history, native studies, and the history of French Canada. There are digital images of the pages from over 1,100 selected books and pamphlets, and the collection may be searched by keyword, title, author, subject, or publisher or browsed by title or author. The site is available in French and English.
    • L'ÎLE, le Centre de documentation virtuel sur la littérature québécoise
      This site contains detailed biographical and bibliographical information about more than 500 authors. Several Québéois government agencies sponsor this effort.
    • Littérature québécoise
      This site provides brief biographical and bibliographical information on contemporary Quebecois authors.

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Internet Search Tools


  • Yahoo! France
  • WoYaa! Portail Internet Africain
    La mission de WoYaa! est de promouvoir l'Afrique Digitale en facilitant et rendant moins coûteuse la navigation et la communication sur Internet tout en accroissant la visibilité des ressources et sites Africains.
  • La Toile du Québec
  • Index des sites éducatifs francophones
  • IPL: The Internet Public Library (formerly Argus Clearinghouse)
    Argus collects web page "guides" on a wide variety of topics and provides keyword and subject access to that information. Each site listed is rated by 5 aspects of content and appearance, and the name and association of the guide compiler is provided.
  • Evaluating Internet Resources
  • InternetScout Project
    The Internet Scout Project is located in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide timely information to the education community about valuable Internet resources. Daily and weekly updates are offered for K-12 and higher education faculty, staff, and students, as well as interested members of the general public.
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Associations and Libraries

  • Alliance Française de Hartford
    Their mission is to contribute to a wider knowledge of the French culture.
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
  • French and Franophone Public Libraries
    This site provides links to public library websites in France, Belgium, Québec, and Switzerland.
  • The French library and Cultural Center
    The French Library and Cultural Center is located in Boston and is the largest institution of its kind in New England. It houses an extensive collection of French books, periodicals, films, audio and video cassettes. In addition to library, the Center offers programs including language classes, lectures, concerts, cooking demonstrations, and art exhibitions. Their mission is to promote French language and culture by serving and educating the culturally diverse Francophone and Francophile communities of Boston and New England.
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If you have questions or comments please contact:
Michael Young
Liaison to
French Literature
The University of Connecticut
Homer Babbidge Library
369 Fairfield Rd. U-1005 CD
Storrs, CT 06269-1005
VOICE: (860)-486-4953
FAX: (860)-486-6100
MAIL TO: michael.s.young@uconn.edu 		The Library Liaison Program
provides faculty and students with a personal contact
to whom library-related issues and questions may be addressed.

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