Italian Subject Guide
Literature
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MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
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. Has citation tools for Refworks, Endotes and Procite. It also has a personal folder option to save articles and citations.
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
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. Database has export features for Refworks, Endotes and Procite.
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
"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."
Contains over 125,000 full text poems, and some short stories, essays, and plays. Biographies of the authors are included and over 800,000 more poems are cited.
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
PB 6 .M6 (1888-present)
Online from JSTOR (1888- , except last five years)
Articles on language and literature. The most cited journal in literary studies.
The 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.
The World of Dante offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno.
Librarian's Comment: Over 80,000 entries about Italian literature.