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• Critical Bibliography of French Literature
    Raynor Reference PQ 103 .C747 vols. 1-6
• Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises
    Raynor Reference PQ 41 .D527 1500 - 1800
• European Writers
    Raynor Reference PN 501 .E9 1983 vols. 1-14
• Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature
    Raynor Reference  PQ 149 .F47 1999
• French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book
    Raynor Reference  PQ 149 .F73 1991
• Guide to French Literature
Vol. 1 Beginnings to 1789
Vol. 2 1780 to the Present
    Raynor Reference  PQ 41 .L48 1992
• Guide to French Poetry Explication
    Raynor Reference  PQ 401 .C65 1993
• Modern French Literature
    Raynor Reference  PQ 306 .M57 vols. 1-2

Additional resources (electronic) that may contain biographies of noted French authors:

• Biography Resource Center
• Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated

•  Search Marqcat (Marquette Libraries' catalog)
To find literary criticism, remember to search for books ABOUT a particular author.  You will need to search Marqcat by SUBJECT HEADING.

Example:  to search for books ABOUT Albert Camus, go to Marqcat, click on SUBJECT HEADING and type in the last name first.

•  Search UW-Milwaukee's online catalog
If Marquette's Libraries do NOT own a book that UW-Milwaukee's library owns, you could request an InfoPass from the Reference Desk in Raynor Library.  With this completed form and your MU I.D. card you could check out the book from Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's library.

•  Search Other Local Libraries
Other local academic libraries (i.e. Alverno College, Cardinal Stritch Univ., etc.) are part of the local library system which accept InfoPass Requests.

• Search WorldCat
WorldCat is an online catalog of thousands of U.S. libraries; contains records to over 41 million items including books in hundreds of languages on thousands of topics.  Useful to search if you are looking to identify additional materials by or about a particular author.  Items not owned by Marquette's libraries can be requested via InterLibrary Loan.

Language Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Atlases:

• Atlas de la Langue Française
    Raynor Reference PC 2705 .A84 1995
• Cambridge French-English Thesaurus"
    Raynor Reference PC 2591 .L24 1998
•  Dictionnaire Bordas de Synonymes Analogies Antonymes
    Raynor Reference  PC 2591 .B687 1986x
•  Encyclopedia Universalis
    Raynor Reference  AE 25 .E3 1996 vols. 1-28
•  Le Grande Encyclopedie
    Raynor Reference  AE 25 .G69 vols. 1-20 plus index and supplement
•  Larousse French-English English-French Dictionary
    Raynor Reference  PC 2640 /G735 1993
•  Media French: a Guide to Contemporary French Idioms
    Raynor Reference  PC 2474 .R583 1997
• Le Robert & Collins Senior Dictionnaire Français-Anglaise, Anglaise-Français
    Raynor Reference  PC 2640 .C69 1998
•  Le What's What = Le Que'est-ce Que C'est: La Première Encyclopédie Visuelle Franco-Anglaise
    Raynor Reference  PC 2640 .B73 1983

      Indexes to locate articles in scholarly journals:

• MLA International Bibliography (via Lion):     provides citations to articles, chapters, books and other materials dealing with literature and language.  Many nationalities are represented including French, French Canadian, etc. Database coverage begins with 1921.

Excellent resource to use in seaarching for literary criticism from scholarly journals.   No abstracts or full-text provided; you will need to check Marqcat to see if Marquette Libraries own journal or source. If Marquette Libraries do not own the items, you could request them via via the Libraries' InterLibrary Loan System.

• Arts & Humanities Search:  provides citations to articles dealing with humanities including articles dealing with French literature.  No abstracts or full-text provided; you will need to check Marqcat to see if Marquette Libraries own journal or source.  Database begins with 1980.

• Periodical Index Online:  provides citations to articles dealing with humanities & social sciences.  Useful in searching for earlier articles (before 1995) for literary criticism or book reviews.  No abstracts or full-text provided; you will need to search Marqcat to see if Marquette Libraries own journal.

• Humanities in ProQuest:  Not a major source for locating literary criticism on French authors but it may offer a few articles of literary criticism.  Indexes scholarly journals and popular magazines; some full text articles.

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: contains recent full-text articles from French newspapers/newswires around the world.  To get to within Lexis/Nexis, click on News, then Non-English Language News, then change Source Box to French Language News. Includes Agence French Presse, Le Figaro, Le Monde among others.

• French Web Resources

• How to evaluate information resources
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (available in the library; link to location and call number here) •  Examples of how to build citations (from print and electronic resources) using MLA Format

Collection development librarian: Jay Kirk

French Research Starting Point Web Page by:
Rose Trupiano     (288-5998)