French 260: Public ou Priveé, Communauté ou Intimité : "les espaces" dans la littérature française et francophone du 16e au 20e siècle
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Citing 
L.C. Call Nos.
This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, French language dictionaries will be classed between PC2001-PC3761; French literature will be in the call number range PQ1-PQ3999; and French history will be classed in the DCs, within the broader class of European history.
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Primary Texts
ARTFL Project
A major database of searchable French texts, plus other specialized searchable text databases. The majority of texts for this course are searchable in ARTFL.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (Western European Studies Section, ACRL)
Academic Databases 
Example of an academic journal article (click on the JSTOR image icon to view)
As with encyclopedic resources, there are indexes for almost any topic that might be supplemental to literary research, and these may be arranged by subject discipline(history, philosophy, religion, art, etc), by period, or by region. If you are unsure of an appropriate index to use, try searching E-Research Tools By Subject and first try the "Recommended Databases.".
MLA International Bibliography
A major index of literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. In addition to indexing several thousand journals, MLA also covers relevant books, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLA is a very ambitious index, providing indexing of criticism for all literatures worldwide, except for classical Greek and Latin literature.
MLA now links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse, two major full-text journal collections.
Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various Gale criticism sets. It is possbile in LRC to search for authors individually or to perform a "Person Search," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on authors. The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides much excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version.
Film & Television Literature Index
Film and Television Literature Index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 8,200 scholarly, trade & general publications. A very broad, interdisciplinary index linking to much full text, Academic Search Premier is less specialized for literary criticism than MLA but good for book reviews, play & film reviews, etc. since about 1980.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. Coverage is from the first issue of journals to the recent past several years. MLA links to JSTOR articles.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a database of high quality visual images.
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Finding Books 
Catalog Search Tips
Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.
Keyword Search: french english dictionaries
Search by LC Subject Heading: French language--Dictionaries--English.
Other Potentially Useful LC Subject Headings:
Bâ, Mariama--Criticism and interpretation.
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960--Homes and haunts--Algeria.
North African literature (French).
Postcolonialism--French-speaking countries.
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001.
Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.
Author:Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
Subject: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
French Dictionaries
Collins Robert French dictionary. [editors, Daphne Day ... [et al.]. Glasgow : HarperCollins, 2005.
Davis Reference PC2640 .C69 2005
The concise Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French. Oxford ;New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Although this is the "concise" Hachette, it is available electronically as well as in print. E-version is 2001.
Information & Library Science Library Reference PC2640 .C735 1998
Le grand Robert de la langue française. 6 vols. Robert, Paul, 1910-1980. Paris : Dictionnaires Le Robert, c2001.
A standard & authoritative French language dictionary.
Davis Reference PC2625 .R552 2001
Encyclopedias for French Literature
Subject encyclopedias can be very useful for providing an overview and context for a variety of specialized topics. Most essays will also include a bibliography.
Sixteenth-century French writers. Edited by Megan Conway. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2006.
Contains essays on Labé & Montaigne, among others. The text of these essays is available via the LRC.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185, v. 327
French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book. Edited by Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
This contains an essay on Claire Duras.
Davis Reference PQ149 .F73 1991
Nineteenth-century French poets . Edited by Robert Beum. Detroit : Gale Group, c2000.
Contains essasys on Baudelaire & Rimbaud, among others. The text of these essays is available via the LRC.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185, v. 217
Gustave Flaubert : a documentary volume . Edited by Eric Le Calvez. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2004.
The text of this volume is available via the LRC.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185, v. 301
French novelists, 1930-1960 . Edited by Catharine Savage Brosman. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1988.
Contains an essay on Camus.The text of this volume is available via the LRC.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185, v. 72
The Cambridge introduction to Francophone literature. Patrick Corcoran. Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
This work provides an overview of the literature of French-speaking nations in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Davis PQ3809 .C67 2007
African writers . 2 vols. C. Brian Cox, editor. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1997.
Contains essays on Bâ, Camus, & Senghor, among others.
Davis Reference Row 4 PL8010 .A453 1997
Postcolonial African writers : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook . Edited by Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne ; foreword by Carole Boyce Davies. Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Contains essays on Bâ, Fall, & Senghor, among others.
Davis Reference PL8010 .P585 1998
Literary Terminology & Theory
The Oxford dictionary of literary terms [electronic resource]Chris Baldick. 3rd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
A handbook to literature. William Harmon. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
A very clearly written handbook.
Davis Reference Desk PN41 .H355 2009
Le dictionnaire du littéraire. Publié sous la direction de Paul Aron, Denis Saint-Jacques, Alain Viala.
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2002.
Davis Reference PN41 .D486 2002
The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism. 2nd ed. Edited by Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman.Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Davis Reference Desk PN81 .J554 2005
MLA handbook for writers of research papers. Joseph Gibaldi. 7th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
Davis Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2009
Useful Websites
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
See Other National Literatures
Voice of the Shuttle: French Literature (Alan Liu, UCSB)