Comparative Literature Research Guide

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Selected Yale Resources

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).  Cambridge : Bowes & Bowes, 1924-
SML, Ref Z2011 M63 (LC)
1923-1972 also in SML Stacks
Complements the MLA (below). Includes an entire section devoted to literary theory (since 1985), as well as dissertations and reviews. ABELL online covers 1920-current.

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980
A bibliography of related documentation published in any language for works published between 1980 and the present day covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, congresses proceedings, and other miscellaneous material. Subject areas: literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies and authors. The database features not only editions of their works but also translated editions and critical studies.

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. An International Bibliography of German Literature and Literary Studies. Founded by Hanns W. Eppelsheimer, continued by Clemens Köttelwesch, edited by Wilhelm R. Schmidt.
SML, Reference  Z2231  B53 (LC) vol. 1 (1945/53)-  .
An international bibliography of German literature and literary studies (formerly Bibliographie der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft). The "Eppelsheimer-Köttelwesch" is the major bibliography for German literary studies. Despite the title, there is less emphasis on linguistics. The earliest volumes have been cumulated as the Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft, 1945-1972, (Frankfurt am Main, V. Klostermann, 1973-1979),
SML Ref Z2231 K64 (LC)

Essay and General Literature Index
Essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada focusing on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Gale Literary Databases online
Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), with information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works.

Humanities Abstracts
English-language periodicals covering the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology.

Index Translationum
Bibliographical information on books translated and published in some of UNESCO's member states since 1979. It includes some 1,300,000 entries in all disciplines. Quarterly updates are planned. There is a print edition of this title that extends coverage back to 1932.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism online
Drama Z6514 C97 J64X 1994 (LC)
SML, Reference Z6514 C97 J64X 1994 (LC)

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - LLBA
Covers aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Literature Online with MLA
English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. A search in this database also automatically searches the MLA Bibliography, ABELL (the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), and selected Web resources chosen by the editors. Search results in Literature Online also link directly from this database to EEBO (Early English Books Online)

MLA Bibliography
Modern Language Association of America. MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. New York: Modern Language
Association of America, 1921-
An indispensable source for books and articles on literary theory, covering works in all major languages.

  General Scholarship

Academic Search
Indexes numerous journals in the humanities and social sciences and includes the full text of recent issues of some journals, including Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Germanic Review, Scandinavian Review, Scandinavian Studies, and Salmagundi.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
A unique feature of the citation index is the ability to track citations of articles in other works.

IBZ (Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur) (1982/83- present) 
Osnabruck, 1965-.
Reference AI19 B35 (Yale)
This continuation of Bibliographie der deutschen Zeitschriftenliteratur and Bibliographie der fremdsprachigen Zeitschriftenliteratur is a subject index to more than 7,600 periodicals in German and other languages. The subjects are in German, with cross-references from English and French.

Periodicals Contents Index
The advantage of this index is its coverage, which goes back to the first issues of the scholarly journals included.

WilsonWeb
A group of general indexes in the humanities and social sciences.

  Specific Periods

LAnnée Philologique (Database of Classical Bibliography)

Catálogo Colectivo de Fondo Antiguo siglos XV-XIX
CD-ROM, Sterling Reference

Guides to the Sources of Medieval History
Ref D77 C2213
Includes a long list of biographical sources classified by country.

International Medieval Bibliography
An online bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).
The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies.

Iter Italicum
A finding list for previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world for scholars working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.

Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
Texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted.

Lexikon des Mittelalters
Available from the Medieval Encyclopaedias and Bibliographies
Ref D101.5+L48
Good entries and bibliographies.

The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Ref DE5 O9x 1996
Literature, art, philosophy, law, biography, mythology, science, geography, daily life, and broad cultural and historical trends and information on all aspects of the ancient world including coverage of women in the ancient world, sexuality, Asia and the Far East, Jews, and early Christians. New thematic articles reflect the current emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to classical studies.

Paulys Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Ref DE5 K54
Detailed discussions and extensive bibliographies.

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