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More and more, researchers are asking where to search the complete works of a writer, or how to search an entire novel.
The increasing number of full-text literary works on the Internet and on CD-ROM's has begun to change the way literary scholars work.
Searching across the entire corpus of a writer, the ability to create concordances, the power to discover new correspondences and relationships in and among literary works - these capabilities are opening up new fields of inquiry in literature.
DVD's and CD-ROM's in the Eisenhower Library (These are located in Audio/Visual on A level. Some do circulate.)
LITERARY TEXTS:
Corpus Montaigne Includes all works published during the author's lifetime and after his death in various editions; contains Théologie naturelle de Raymond Sebon, Journal de voyage, Ephémérides, Oeuvres de la Boétie, essays, marginalia, and correspondance. CompFile 1472
Proust: Rimbaud: oeuvres Pascal: oeuvres oeuvres romanesques complètes littéraires complètes CD-ROM's containing the entire texts of these writers' works. Includes bibliographies, biographical information, word frequencies, dictionary of places, characters, themes. CompFiles 1607 1608 1610
ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle français: historique, géographique, mythologique, bibliographique, littéraire, artistique, scientifique, etc. The 19th century Larousse encyclopedia. DVD ROM 1
Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert CD-ROM version of the original ed. published in Paris, including 17 vols. of text, 4 supplemental vols., 2 vols. of tables, 13 vols. of plates, and 50,000 articles. CompFile 2560
Dictionnaire historique des arts, métiers et professions exercés dans Paris depuis le 13è siècle The 1905 encyclopedia of occupations and industrial arts. CompFile 2805
DICTIONARIES:
Dictionnaires des XVI et XVII siècles Texts of ten 16th and 17th century dictionaries. Includes a thesaurus for all the entries with their variants and spellings, along with the languages of etymology. CompFile 1602
Dictionnaire de l'Académie francaise Contains the entire text of the 1694 ed. of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, as well as facsimiles of the original pages. CompFile 1614
Dictionnaire Le Littré Texte intégral : contient le texte complet des 4 volumes et du supplément de l'édition originale de 1872. CompFile 3879
Le Robert électronique Dictionnaire alphabétioque et analogique de la langue française. Grand Robert de la langue française. CompFile 25
L'atelier historique de la langue française: l'histoire des mots du haut Moyen âge au XIXe siècle Includes seven historical French dictionaries from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Links from each definition of each word and from one dictionary to another permit the user to research the history of the French language. CompFile 2564
(Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago) By now, a household word in French studies. Begun as a dictionary project, it has grown to a major research tool, containing nearly 2000 texts from French letters, as well as several other research databases. Among them, the Encyclopédie Électronique, the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, and the Textes de Français Ancien (TFA) database.
This is a massive text archive, spanning four centuries of French culture, and more than 3,000 works in full text. The following databases are included: -Le corpus des œuvres de philosophie en langue française -Autour du romantisme: Le roman, 1792-1886 -La critique littéraire de Laharpe à Proust -Les Romanciers réalistes et naturalistes 1820-1910 -Théâtre du Grand Siècle -Ecrits sur l'art, de Diderot à Proust -La Révolution et l'Empire vus par les historiens du xixème siècle
Une bibliothèque patrimoniale de 1000 œuvres narratives (romans, contes, nouvelles)
Encyclopédie Électronique A project from ARTFL, an online version of Diderot's Encyclopédie. The database contains 20.8 million words, 400,000 unique forms, 18,000 pages of text, 17 volumes of articles, and 11 volumes of plate legends.
Web version. Based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire. Includes all of Voltaire's literary works, searchable by keyword, title, literary form, and date of edition.
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. The collection consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera.
Texts in Philosophy Included are: Oeuvres completes of Descartes, The Romantic Age, Political philosophy, The Modern Era (1800-1950), The 18th Century.
Free Web Resources
ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle A site of 295 texts, 94 authors, that allows searching across an entire work. Public domain texts contributed by members of the Association des Bibliophiles Universels.
Athena Literature is only one of the sections of this site, but a huge one. The category "Textes d'auteurs d'expression française" is a long list of links to full-text French works. The section on "Books" contains texts of other European writers as well.
Gallica A project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Boasting 80,000 digitized texts, with an intuitive search engine, this mammoth project of the BNF includes documents of all kinds, not only literary texts. Texts are arranged chronologically and by themes. Also included are many reference works, including the classic French dictionaries and encyclopedias, and a section of images.
Catalogue critique des ressources textuelles sur Internet "… a pour but d'aider les internautes en quête de textes littéraires en langue française à sélectionner, parmi les nombreux sites qui diffusent des ressources textuelles en ligne sur la Toile, ceux qui présentent les caractères les plus sérieux tant sur le plan du traitement éditorial que numérique des textes. “
Vie de Henry Brulard: a digital version of Stendghal's manuscript; easily browsed (page images can be enlarged) aor searched.
WESS Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature. Organized by language, and maintained by a librarian, this list has links to texts in all the major European languages, including Provençal, Old Norse, Galician, and Catalan. Most are freely accessible.
The Renaissance in print: 16th century French books in the Douglas Gordon collection. The approximately 600 Gordon books dating from the sixteenth century include literary works and titles pertaining to religion, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, travel and architecture. Completely digitized, from bindings to endpapers, and everything in between.
French Language Resources: electronic text center (UVA) The University of Virginia's famous Electronic Text Center has links to many works of French literature.
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française Un projet qui a eu l'ambition d'informatiser et de mettre librement en ligne sur le WWW l'ensemble des huit éditions complètes du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A "dynamic reference work", maintained and updated by an editorial board. Over 950 professional philosophers are donating their time and labor to collaboratively write, referee, and maintain the reference work.
Digital Scriptorium An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Project Gutenberg The granddaddy of electronic texts on the Internet. Many language and literatures are to be found among the mostly English texts, including some of the more obscure European texts.
OAIster: A searchable catalog of publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. Broad subject coverage.
