This guide features the most useful resources for researching the literature and culture of non-English speaking countries, particularly those in Europe and Latin America. For research on linguistics, literature in English, or ancient Greece or Rome, see our other Language and Literature guides.
Best database for finding journal articles, books, and essay collections in the fields of international languages, literature, linguistics, film, and media studies.
Less user friendly than MLA, but it can be a good database for finding overviews of major authors, as well as book reviews and critical essays that are hard to find anywhere else.
This is an amalgam of ten databases in which you will find literary reviews and essays written from centuries ago. Complete from Vol. 1 to present.
*Contemporary Literary Criticism - authors currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999.
*Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism - authors of 1900-1999
*Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism - major authors of 1800-1899
*Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism - major classical and medieval authors
Best database to find scholarly journal articles on all aspects of linguistics.
LLBA covers disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Covered dates are 1973 - current, with monthly updates.