French Studies Guide - Reference Material

Table of Contents
Guides, Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
French Language Dictionaries
Bibliographical and Biographical Sources
Francophone literatures
Indexes and Abstracts
Theses and Dissertations
Writing Guides and Style Manuals

Guides, Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries

French culture, 1900-1975; Dictionary of twentieth century culture ed. Catherine Savage Brosman.
Detroit, Washington D.C., London, Gale Research, 1995.
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Dictionnaire de biographie francaise / sous la direction de J.Balteau, M.Barroux, M.Prevost avec le concours de nombreux collaborateurs.
Paris; Letouzey et Ane, 1933- 2000
Fisher Ref. 920.044 2
Dictionnaire des idées non reçues. François Fauvre.
Paris: P.Bordas, c1994.
Fisher Research. 084.103 1
Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais and Daniel Couty
Paris: Bordas, 1994. 4v
Fisher Research. 840.3 13
Dictionnaire du Grand Siècle; sous la direction de François Bluche.
Paris: Fayare, c 1990.
Fisher Research 034.10903 1
Dictionnaire mondial des mouvements littéraires et artistiques contemporains: groupes, courants, pôles, foyers: littérature, peinture, théâtre, cinéma, musique, architecture, photo, band dessinée. Alain Virmaux
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, c1992.
Fisher Ref. 700.90303 1
Encyclopedia of language and linguistics: editor-in-chief, R.E. Asher.
Oxford; New York: Pergamon Press, 1994. 10v
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The ARTFL Project - Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of French Language.
L'encyclopédie du cinéma. 4ième. éd.Roger Boussinot.
Paris: Bordas, 1995.
Fisher Research 791.4303 2B
Grand dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse. Paris, Librarie Larousse, c.1982-c1985. 10v
Fisher Research 034.1 12
Guide to French Literature. Levi, Anthony.
Chicago; London: St James Press, 1992
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Guide to French poetry explication. Kathleen Coleman.
New York: G.K.Hall: Maxwell Macmillan Intenational, 1993.
Fisher Ref. 841.009 1
New Oxford Companion to Literature in French; edited by Peter France.
Oxford:Oxford UP, 1995.
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French Language Dictionaries

Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. 9ième.éd. Paris, Imp. Nationale, 1992-
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Oxford-Hachette French dictionary: French-English, English-French; edited by Marie-Mihne Corriard, Valerie Grundy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press; Paris: Hachette Livre, 1997.
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Thresor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne.Nicot, Jean
Electronic version of Jean Nicot's Paris, David Douceur, 1606 work. Provided by Professor T.R. Wooldridge of the University of Toronto.
Trésor de la langue française: dictionnaire de la langue du XIXe et du XXe siècle, 1789-1960. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1971-1994.16 v.
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Bibliographical and Biographical Sources

Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française. Hector Talvart and Joseph Place
Paris, Éditions de la Chronique des lettres françaises, 1928-
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Critical bibliography of French literature. David Clark Cabeen
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1947-1985. 12v
Fisher Ref. 016.84 5
French VI bibliography: critical and bibliographical references for the study of nineteenth-century French literature. Under the aegis of the French VI group of the Modern Language Association. New York, French Institute, 1954-1967.
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French XX bibliography. New York: French Institute, 1969-
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French language and literature: an annotated bibliography.Fernande Bassan, Donald C. Spinelli and Howard A. Sullivan
New York: Garland, 1989.
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Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du moyen âge. Robert Bossuat Suive des suppléments de 1949-1953 et 1954-1960 avec le concours de Jacques Monfrin.
Généve;Paris: Saltkine Reprints, 1986.
Fisher Ref. 840.9 36 A
Manuel bibliographique des études littéraires: les bases de l'histoire littéraire, les voies nouvelles de l'analyse critique. B. Beugnot and J.-M. Moureaux
Paris, Nathan, c1982.
Fisher Research 016.809 7
The Romantic movement: a selective and critical bibliography. Edited by David V. Erdman.
New York and London, Garland, 1979-
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Who's who in France XXe siècle : dictionnaire biographique des Français disparus ayant marqué le XXe siècle Béatrice et Michel Wattel ; en collaboration avec l'équipe rédactionnelle du "Who's who in France".
Publisher Levallois-Perret : J. Lafitte, 2001
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Francophone literatures

Africa
Dictionnaire des auteurs maghrébins de langue française. Jean Déjeux.
Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1984.
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Dictionnaire des oeuvres algériennes ln langue française. Ambroise Kon.
Paris L'Harmattan, 1990.
Fisher Ref. 848.99609 3
North America
Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique de Nord. Reginald Hamel.et al. Montréal: Fides, 1989.
Fisher Ref. 848.997103 1
Quebec
Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec. Lemire, Maurice
Montré Fides, 1980-1987.
Fisher Ref. 840.3 10
Switzerland
Dictionnaire des écrivains suisses d'expression française. Alain Nicollier and Henri-Charles Dahlem.
Précédé de lettres de Jean d'Ormesson. Genéve, ÉditionsGVA, c1994.
Fisher Research 848.9949403 1
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Indexes and Abstract

Bibliographie des Französischen Litteraturwissenschaft/Bibliographie d'histoire littéraire française. Edited by Otto Klapp. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1960-
An essential bibliography for researchers in French literature and related subjects.
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MLA international bibliography of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures. N.Y.: Modern Language Association, 1922-1993.
MLA international bibliography 1963- available in electronic format.
An international, classified bibliography of books, articles and dissertations on all modern language literatures, folklore and linguistics
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The Year's work in modern language studies. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1931-
An evaluative survey by noted scholars of the year's international books and articles on modern European non-English literatures.
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Theses and Dissertations

SUDOC - Système universitaire de documentation. SUDOC Accès au catalogue de SUDOC et au R&#eacute;pertoire des centres de ressources.
Australian Digital Theses Program ADT
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text - UMI ProQuest. This database represents the scholarship of mainly US universities. 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added each year, with an increasing number from outside the US. Full-text available for theses submitted from 1997.
Index to theses - accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic awards.
London, Aslib.
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UNION list of higher degree theses in Australian university libraries. Cumulative edition to 1965.
Hobart: University of Tasmania Library, 1967. Supps. 1966 -
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Theses@Sydney - provides more information about finding and obtaining theses and preparing, writing and submitting your thesis.
Theses@Sydney
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Writing Guides and Style Mannual

A guide to MLA documentation: with an appendix on APA style / Joseph F. Trimmer.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
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MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Joseph Gilbaldi. 5th ed.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
Fisher Ref. 808.02 78 C
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