Comparative Literature Research Guide

Handbooks, Dictionaries, Bibliographies, Periodicals, Periodical Indexes, etc.
HBLL 2003-2004
see also the related research guide on Literary Theory and Criticism


Robert S. Means, Comparative Literature Librarian, 5525 HBLL, 422-6117
robert_means@byu.edu


CONTENTS


  1. Handbooks
  2. Dictionaries
  3. Bibliographies
  4. Literary Theory
  5. Criticism
  6. History
  7. Studies
  8. Methods and Pedagogy
  9. HBLL Catalog
  10. Comparative Literature Periodicals
  11. Periodical Indices
  12. Oxford Companions
  13. Other Literary Resources
  14. Other Resources / Services

Comparative Literature is classified in the Library Congress (LC) numbers PN 851-883 - in the stacks as well as in Humanities Reference (Humanities Ref.), where we keep a selection of Comparative Literature reference sources. Below are some examples.


HANDBOOKS
Humanities Ref.
PN 45 .V54x 1992
Dictionnaire mondial des mouvements littéraires et artistiques contemporains : groupes, courants, pôles, foyers, littérature, peinture, théâtre, cinéma, musique, architecture, photo, bande dessinée / Alain et Odette Virmaux. Monaco : Editions du Rocher, c1992.
Humanities Ref.
PN 524 .E54 1985
The McGraw-Hill Guide to World Literature / David Engel, Ruth Hoberman, Frank Palmeri. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1985.

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DICTIONARIES OF THEME AND MOTIF
Humanities Ref.
PN 45 .D3127 1995
Themen und Motive in der Literatur : ein Handbuch / Horst S. und Ingrid S. Daemmrich. 2., überarbeitete und erw. Aufl. Tübingen : Francke, 1995.
Humanities Ref.
PN 43 .D48 1988
Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs / Jean-Charles Seigneuret, editor ... [et al.]. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
Humanities Ref.
PN 41 .C28 1999
A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms / by Gary Carey and Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1999.
Humanities Ref.
PR 6019 .O9 F59348
1990
The Fictional Encyclopaedia : Joyce, Pound, Sollers / Hilary Clark. New York : Garland Publishing, 1990.

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Humanities Ref.
PN 523 .X1 T46
Key Sources in Comparative and World Literature : an Annotated Guide to Reference Materials / George A. Thompson, Jr. with the assistance of Margaret M. Thompson. New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co., c1982.
Humanities Ref.
PN 45.X1 L57
A Syllabus of Comparative Literature, compiled by the faculty of comparative literature, Livingston College, Rutgers University. Editor: John O. McCormick. 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1972.
Humanities Ref.
PN 45.X1 B3 1960
Bibliography of Comparative Literature, by Fernand Baldensperger and Werner P. Friederich. New York, Russell & Russell, 1960 [c1950]

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LITERARY THEORY
Humanities Ref.
PN 45 .C74 1987
Critical Survey of Literary Theory / edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1987.
Humanities Ref.
PN 98 .S6O77 1991
A Dictionary of Critical Theory / Leonard Orr. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.

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CRITICISM
Humanities Ref.
PN 523 .W67 1992
World Literature Criticism : 1500 to the Present : a Selection of Major Authors from Gale's Literary Criticism Series / James P. Draper, editor. Detroit : Gale Research, c1992.

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HISTORY
Humanities Ref.
NX 447.5 .B76 1994
Timelines of the Arts and Literature / David Brownstone and Irene Franck. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1994.
PN 56 .N19 C37 1998 Making Subject(s) : Literature and the Emergence of National Identity / Allen Carey-Webb. New York : Garland Pub., 1998.

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STUDIES
PN 603 .C66 1998 Comparative Romanticisms : Power, Gender, Subjectivity / edited by Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler. Columbia, SC : Camden House, 1998.
PN 56 .L27 S54 1994 Literature About Language / Valerie Shepherd. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Humanities Ref.
PN 57 .J47 X52 1989
The Literary Lives of Jesus : an International Bibliography of Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Criticism / Alice L. Birney. New York : Garland Pub., 1989.

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METHODS AND PEDAGOGY
PN 874 .K34 Einführung in die Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft : Forschungsstand, Kritik, Aufgaben / Gerhard R. Kaiser. Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980.
PN 865 .D818 Teória literárnej komparatistiky. Russian Title: Teori*i*a sravnitel*nogo izucheni*i*a literatury / Dioniz D*i*urishin ; Per. so slova*t*s. ; [Predisl.*I*U. V. Bogdanova]. Moskva : Progress, 1979.
PN 865 .C57 Comparative Literature as Academic Discipline : A Statement of Principles, Praxis, Standards / Robert J. Clements. New York : Modern Language Association of America, c1978.
PN 868 .U5 B85 1994 Building a Profession : Autobiographical Perspectives on the History of Comparative Literature in the United States / edited by Lionel Gossman and Mihai I. Spariosu. Albany, NY : SUNY Press, c1994.

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HBLL CATALOG

SEARCHING FEATURES

Keyword Searching Searches every field in the record (brings up a lot, but not always relevant material).
Advanced Searching Allows you to customize your search to look for words in the title, subject field or elsewhere in the record.
Browse Alphabetically Searches the subject field in the record (what the book is about).

This is the best way to find what the HBLL has about an author: simply enter the author's last name, first name (for example "Frost, Robert") and you'll get a list of works on Frost:
bibliographies, biographies, criticism and interpretation, etc.
Truncation Use the "$" to search for the variations on a root word:
"poet$" will retrieve "poets," "poetry," "poetic," "poetics," etc.
OTHER FEATURES
Subject Links When you're looking at a book record in the HBLL catalog, check the highlighted subject links, you may want to click on one to bring up other titles in the HBLL that deal with the same subject.
Call Number Browsing When you find a book on your subject, click on the highlighted call number in the upper LH corner of the HBLL catalog record to see what other books are near it on the shelf.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PERIODICALS
PN 855 .A44 ACLA Bulletin. Provo, Utah : American Comparative Literature Association, 1993- . Continues ACLA Newsletter / American Comparative Literature Association. Ann Arbor, Mich. : The Association, 1983-1992.
PN 851 .A7 Arcadia. Berlin New York, De Gruyter, 1966-
PN 851 .C55x Colloquium helveticum. Berne ; New York : P. Lang, 1985
PN 851 .C66x Comparatistica. Firenze : L.S. Olschki, [1989-
PN 851 .C595 Comparative Literature. Eugene, University of Oregon.
PN 851 .C63 Comparative Literature Studies. Urbana : University of Illinois Press.
PN 603 .P75 Prism(s) : essays in Romanticism. Provo, UT : American Conference on Romanticism, 1993-
PN 5 .R5 Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate. Firenze : Valmartina, 1955-
PN 851 .R4 Revue de littérature comparée. Paris : Édouard Champion, 1921-
PL 2250 .T34 Tamkang Review. Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Western Languages and Literature Research, Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences [etc.]

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PERIODICAL INDICES

Humanities Ref.
PB 41 .X1 M6

MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest)
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography
Indexes articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. From 1921 in the print version. The electronic version covers from 1963, and is updated ten times per year.

Humanities Ref.
PE 51 .X1 M69

ABELL
Annual Bibliography of English Lang. & Literature
Indexes books, scholarly articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and dissertations dealing with English language and literature published anywhere in the world. From 1920 in both print and electronic versions. (The electronic version is part of Literature Online (LION).

JSTOR JSTOR
Contains 11 of the very best literature journals in full-text going back to their first issue (in some cases to the late 1800's). The articles are retrieved in Adobe Acrobat and so appear as they did when they were originally published.
Project Muse Project MUSE
Indexes the full-text of over 60 scholarly journals in literature, literary theory, and popular culture studies; however, in most cases, only a few of the most recent years of each journal are available in the Project MUSE archives.

IBZ
AI 9 .I5

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)
Aus allen Gebieten des Wissens International Bibliography of Periodic Literature covering all fields of knowledge. Bibliographie internationale de la littérature périodique dans tous les domaines de la connaissance. Indexesinternational periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Electronic version indexes from 1989. Updated twice a year.
Periodical Contents Index
(PCI)
PCI Full Text (Periodical Contents Index or Periodicals Archive Online - PAO)
Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues through 1991 (1770-1991). Icludes journals in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

AI 1 .A27x

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
From 1975 to 1993 in the print version. Indexes over 1,300 international arts and humanities journals. Also indexes all references cited within the articles. The electronic version, the Arts/Humanities Search (Citations), indexes from 1980, and is updated weekly.

Humanities Ref.
P 1 .L26x

Linguistics/Language Behavior Abstracts -- LLBA (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts articles from 2,000 U.S. and foreign periodicals in language use, linguistics, and related disciplines. From 1967 to 1993 in print version; electronic version covers from 1973, and is updated twice a year.

Humanities Index
Humanities Ref.
AI 3 .H85

Humanities Full Text
Includes 350 journals in archaeology, area studies, art, classics, commujnications, dance, film, history, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. From 1974 in the print version. The electronic version, Humanities Abstracts, covers from 1984, and is updated monthly.

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OXFORD COMPANIONS
Humanities Ref.
PR 19 .D73 1998
The Oxford Companion to English Literature / edited by Margaret Drabble. Rev. ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Humanities Ref.
PT 41 .G3 1997
The Oxford Companion to German Literature / by Henry and Mary Garland. 3rd ed. / by Mary Garland. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Humanities Ref.
PS 153 .N5 O96 1997
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature / editors, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Humanities Ref.
PQ 41 .N38x 1995
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French / edited by Peter France. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Humanities Ref.
PQ6006 .O95
The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature / edited by Philip Ward. Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press, 1978.
Humanities Ref.
PA 31 .H69 1989
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. 2nd ed. / edited by M.C. Howatson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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OTHER LITERARY RESOURCES
Literature Resource Center (LRC) Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, critical analysis, and Web resources of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Searchable byAuthor Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
Humanities Ref.
PN 451 .A6

The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
This is an especially well rounded, well illustrated source, with a list of the author's primary works, biography, analysis and criticism, photographs and facsimiles, and a list of the best secondary sources.
Contemporary Authors
Humanities Ref.
PN 771 .C6x

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical references for more than 90,000 current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields from the U.S. and around the world. In both print and electronic formats.
Literature Online
(LION)
Literature Online (LION)
Indexes the full-text of nine literary databases dealing with English poetry and drama, 18th century fiction, American and African poetry and Shakespeare. Also contains selected reference works, and provides access to related literary websites.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Humanities Ref.
PE 1625 .O87 1989

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
2nd ed. / prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. the 20 volume 2nd ed. OED includes 320,000 entries of English words; 580,000 cross-references; and 2.4 million quotations.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Images
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Texts
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Images
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Texts

Contains over 125,000 titles published between 1475?1700. Combining the listings of the major short?title catalogs, EEBO includes publications in all subjects: literature, religion, government, medicine, science, and music. EEBO provides the facsimile of each work, so researchers can study these publications as they appeared: books printed by William Caxton, the earliest editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Book of Common Prayer (1549), The King Jams Bible (1611), Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), and works by Erasmus, Sir Isaac Newton, Bacon, Sir Thomas More, Galileo, as well as acts of Parliament, government documents on the early slave trade, and musical exercises by Henry Purcell.
Early American Fiction Early American Fiction
Contains searchable texts by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe (to name a few).
English & American Literature Web Resources
Selected web sites dealing with English and American literature.
Book Review Digest
Gen Ref
Z 1219 .C96


Indexes book reviews of popular English-language fiction and non-fiction from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. From 1905 in the print version. The electronic version covers from 1983, and is updated monthly.

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OTHER RESOURCES / SERVICES

Catalogs of Other
Libraries

The HBLL homepage provides access to the online catalogs of other libraries: academic and public libraries in Utah, and across the USA (including the Library of Congress). It also connects you to RLIN (the Research Library Information Network) and OCLC (Worldcat), the two largest networked databases of records from major research libraries in the country. It also links to catalogs of libraries in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and South America, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
Interlibrary Loan
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Books or journals not held by the Lee Library may be obtained from other libraries, through the Interlibrary Loan office. Books are sent free of charge. Journal articles are photocopied or scanned and sent as an email attachment.

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