Modern Languages and Literatures Resources
Research Guides by Subject and Course - Indexes and Databases - News - Journals - Electronic Journals - Reference Sources - Films - Internet Resources - Refworks - New Books
Indexes and Databases
- MLA Bibliography [1926- ]
Provides bibliographic citations covering scholarly work in literature, linguistics, and folklore worldwide. Sources include journal and book articles, dissertations, monographs, and series. - Art Full Text (1929 - )
Provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 400 art publications and offers broad coverage of art topics. - Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - )
Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 7,000 major science and social science journals. - CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online (1991- )
Includes policy briefs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, journal articles, book chapters, economic indicators, maps and country data, and proceedings from conferences. - Clase and Periodica [1975- ]
Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together, they offer access to citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. - Film & Television Literature Index
Provides bibliographic citations covering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. - Fuente Academica Indexes 260 scholarly Spanish language scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers..
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (1936 - )
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. It covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years. - Historical Abstracts (1955 - )
Indexes and abstracts scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. - Humanities International Complete
Indexes 2,000 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced. - ITER (Medieval and Renaissance studies)
A bibliography of approximately 918,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews, collected from over 6,000 publications, including over 1,600 journals. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, this research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). - PAIS [1972- ]
Indexes and abstracts the world's public affairs literature. Fields covered include political science, international relations, economics, and other social sciences. Types of materials indexed included journal articles; books; government documents; and statistical compilations. - Women's Studies International [1972 - ]
Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. More than 2,000 periodicals are indexed, with some coverage from 1972 and earlier to the present. - MLA Directory of Periodicals
Lists over 7,100 journals with 4,400 currently indexed periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.
News Sources
- Asahi Shinbun
- China Daily
- Corriere della Sera
- L'express International
- Frankfurter Allgemeine
- Le Monde
- Novaia gazeta
- El Pais
- Die Zeit
- French Language News (LexisNexis)
- German Language News (LexisNexis)
- Italian Language News (LexisNexis)
- Spanish Language News (LexisNexis)
- Non English Language News (LexisNexis)
Selected Journals at Kenyon
(General, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish)
General
- MLN, 1962-2001
- MLN, 1993-
- Modern Language Journal, 1916-2003
- Modern Language Journal, 1999-
- Modern Language Quarterly (Print)
- Modern Language Quarterly, 1999-
- Modern Language Review (Print)
- Modern Language Review, 1905-2003
- Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1983-2004
- Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1997-
- Publications of the Modern Language Association
- World Literature Today
Arabic:
Chinese
French
- L'Actualite
- Bulletin Baudelairien
- Contemporary French Civilization
- L'Esprit Créateur (Print)
- L'Esprit Créateur, 2006-
- L'express International
- French Review
- French Studies (Print)
- French Studies, 2002-2007
- French Studies, 2007-
- French Studies Bulletin
- Jeune Afrique L'intelligent
- Le Monde
- Nineteenth Century French Studiies (Print)
- Nineteenth Century French Studiies, 2001-
- Le Nouvel Observateur
- Romanic Review
- Yale French Studies (Print)
- Yale French Studies, 1948-2004
German
- Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
- Dimension² : Contemporary German-language Literature
- Frankfurter Allgemeine
- German Quarterly (Print)
- German Quarterly, 1928-2003
- German Studies Review (Print)
- German Studies Review, 1978-2003
- Germanic Review
- Monatshefte
- New German Critique (Print)
- New German Critique, 1973-2003
- Der Spiegel
- Theater Heute
- Unterrichtspraxis (Print)
- Unterrichtspraxis, 1968-2003
- Die Zeit
Italian
- Annali d'italianistica
- Corriere della Sera
- Italica (Print)
- Italica, 1926-2001
- Rivista Storica italiana
Japanese
Russian
Spanish
- Estreno
- Hispamérica
- Hispania (Print)
- Hispania, 1917-2001
- Hispanic Review, 1933-2003
- Hispanic Review, 2005-
- Latin American Theatre Review
- Review : Latin American Literature and Arts
- El Pais
- Revista de Occidente
- Revista Iberoamericana
Electronic Journals
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center: Language and Literature contains numerous full text journals in the area of language and literature studies.
JSTOR provides access to the full content of a variety of scholarly journals, including at least 15 titles in the area of language studies. Coverage generally begins with volume one of a journal, and ends 2-5 years from the present. Journals may be browsed or searched.
Selected Reference Resources
(Literature, Language, Films, History and Culture)
Literature Resources
- ARTFL
[Full-text database of French literature] - Book Reviews
[LexisNexis] - Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
[Ref PQ7081.A1 C35 1996] - Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature
[Ref PL2264.I53 1985] - Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive database that provides information on thousands of authors and their works. LRC includes: plot summaries, articles of literary criticism, full text of literary journals, author biographies, book reviews, author interviews, and images of key literary figures. - Literature Criticism Online
Covers all time periods and a variety of genres. - New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
[Ref PQ41.N48 1995] - Oxford Companion to German Literature
[Ref PT41.G3 1997] - Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
[Ref PQ4006.O84 2002] - Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
[Ref PL726.1.M495 1985] - Reference Guide to Russian Literature
[Ref PG2940.R44 1998] - Reference Guide to World Literature
[Ref PN524.R44 2003]
Language Resources
- Arabic English Lexicon
[Ref PJ6640.L3 1968] - Brockhaus wahrig deutsches Worterbuch
[Ref PF3625.B7] - Cheng & Tsui Chinese Pinyin English Dictionary
[Ref PL1455.C439 1999] - Compendium of the world's languages
[Ref P371.C36 2000] - Diccionario critico etimologico castellano e hispanico
[Ref PC4580.C59 1980] - Grand Robert de la langue francaise
[Ref PC2625.R5545 2001] - Grande dizionario della lingua italiana
[Ref PC1625.B3] - International encyclopedia of linguistics
[Ref P29.I58 2003] - Kanji Dictionary
[Ref PL677.5.S625 1996] - Tolkovyi slovar russkogo iazyka
[Ref PG2625.T64 1998] - Selected Dictionaries
- To find readers in a particular language, use a subject search in CONSORT:
Arabic [French, Italian, etc.] language readers
Films
- To find films in a particular language, it is a good idea to try a variety of search strategies in CONSORT. Here are some examples:
- keyword search: Arabic [French, Italian, etc.] and videorecording
- subject search: Motion pictures, French (Italian, German, etc.)
- subject search: Foreign films
- keyword search: Latin America [France, Algeria, etc.] and videorecording
- Magill's survey of cinema, foreign language films
[Ref PN1995.9.F67 M34] - Oxford History of World Cinema
[Ref PN1993.5.A1 O96 1996] - Movie Reviews
[LexisNexis]
History/Culture Resources
- Brockhaus, die Enzyklopadie
[East Wall Ref AE27.B922 1996] - Diccionario ilustrado de terminos taurinos
[Ref GV1107.N44 1987] - Enciclopedia dello spettacolo
[Ref PN1625.E7] - Enciclopedia universal ilustrada Europeo-Americana
[East Wall Ref AE61.E6 1907] - Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture
[Ref DS779.23.E5 2005] - Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture
[Ref DC33.7.E53 1998] - Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture
[Ref DD290.26.E53 1999] - Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture
[Ref DG450.E53 2000] - Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture
[Ref DS822.5.E516 2002] - Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures
[Ref F1406.E515 2000] - Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture
[Ref DP233.5.E63 1999] - Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
[Multimedia Ref ML100 .G16 1998] - Grand dicionnaire encyclopedique Larousse
[East Wall Ref AE25.G63 1982] - Grande dizionario enciclopedico UTET
[East Wall Ref AE35.G7 1984] - New Cambridge Modern History
[Ken Main D208.N4] - Women in world history
[Ref HQ1115.W6 1999]
Evaluating Internet Sites
It is very important to think critically about Internet resources. To assist you in evaluating Internet resources, see:
Selected Internet Sites
- Intute: Arts and Humanities - Modern Languages
A service dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloguing online resources in the humanities. - Voice of the Shuttle
Extensive collection of humanties resources. - Non-U.S. Newspapers
Links to the full text of many newspapers from around the world. - LANIC
This site is a comprehensive access tool for locating Latin American information on the Internet. Access by country or subject. Maintained by the University of Texas. - French Studies Web
- German Studies Web
- Italian Studies Web
- Russian and East European Studies
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online service used to create a personal database of bibliographic citations, which may be automatically formatted for bibliography and footnotes.