InfoGuides: French Language and Literature: Find Articles

Key Databases

The following databases are suggested for researching German literary criticism.

Book Review Digest Plus
Book Review Digest indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Every book in Book Review Digest appears with all of its reviews together.
Humanities International Complete
Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International completes offers indexing for over 2,300 journals, books and other publications, with full-text for over 1,200 of them.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Articles on literary critics, movements, countries and historical periods (enhanced by capabilities found only in an electronic version).
Literature Resource Center
Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 writers from a variety of periods and disciplines. Includes access to the MLA International Bibliographic database.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes scholarly works (journal articles, monographs, book chapters, dissertation abstracts, and series) on modern languages, literature, linguistics, film studies, cultural studies, and folklore.
Project MUSE
Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's university presses and scholarly societies.

Journal of French Language Studies
Sponsored by the Association for French Language Studies, the journal encourages and promotes theoretical, descriptive and applied studies of all aspects of the French language. The journal publishes significant work on French phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, sociolinguistics and variation studies.
Journal of Sociolinguistics
Publishing 5 issues per volume, Journal of Sociolinguistics has established itself as an international forum for multidisciplinary research on language and society.
Journal of Sociolinguistics promotes sociolinguistics as a thoroughly linguistic and thoroughly social-scientific endeavour. The journal is concerned with language in all its dimensions, macro and micro, as formal features or abstract discourses, as situated talk or written text.
French Studies
This journal publishes articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics (historical and contemporary), all periods and aspects of literature in France and the French-speaking world, thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, film, and critical theory.
Nouvelles Études Francophones
The official refereed journal of the International Council of Francophone Studies / Conseil International d’Études Francophones (CIÉF). NEF publishes scholarly research in the language, arts, literatures, cultures, and civilizations of Francophone countries and regions throughout the world.