Italian Subject Guide

Literature

 

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MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) restricted
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year.

Librarian's Comment: Over 80,000 entries about Italian literature.

Literature Resource Center restricted Full-text biographies, critical essays and reviews, poems, short stories and plays of more than 130,000 international authors. This database contains the full content of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and selections from Children's Literature Review, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and 11 other literary criticism series.

Librarian's Comment: Over 300 Italian authors are covered with biographies and literary criticism.

Dictionary of Italian Literature
PQ4006 .D45 1996 (Ref)

Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
PQ 4006 .O84 2002 (Ref)

Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian LiteraturePQ4063 .F45 1997

Italian Women Writers"The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Our goal is to bring information on and texts by both famous and previously neglected Italian women writers to a wider audience of students, scholars, teachers, and the general public, and to preserve these often fragile texts for generations to come."

LitFinder restricted
Full texts of selected poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches. The PoemFinder features 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 additional cited and excerpted poems, keyword and author searching, as well as biographies of poets and some critical interpretations. In LitFinder you can search by author or title but also by genre (e.g. children's literature, humor); by subject (e.g. nature, religion); and within author you can limit by time period, genre, and religious affiliation.

PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of AmericaPB 6 .M6 (1888-present)
Online from JSTOR (1888- , except last five years)
Articles on language and literature. The most cited journal in literary studies.

Princeton Dante ProjectThe Princeton Dante Project combines a traditional approach to the study of Dante's Comedy with new techniques of compiling and consulting texts, translations, history, data, images, and sound.

World of DanteThe World of Dante offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno.

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