LibGuides: Comparative Literature: Criticism & Scholarship

Finding Articles in Databases

On this page, you will find links to specialized databases relating to Comparative Literature. These databases are where you will find citations and often full-text links to articles from journals in these subject areas, as well as some citations to books and book chapters.

Zakaria ibn Muhammad Qazwini. Wonders of Creation: Sea Monsters. Islamic,14th century. Luna Collection.

Journal Articles & Bibliographic Resources

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
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1990-present.
Covers U.S. and Canadian scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia,and the former Soviet Union.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
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The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
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Over 2,600 texts (mostly scholarly editions) ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The powerful search and retrieval engine, PhiloLogic3, enables scholars to perform textual analysis, and to limit and extend both the searches and search results from various points of view.
Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980
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1980-present.
Provides bibliographic information on a wide range of subject areas including literary theory, genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies, and authors.
Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Online (BDSL)
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1985-present.
Considered the most comprehensive bibliography and index of publications on German language and literary studies. BDSL Online provides citations to monographs and to articles and reviews in journals, collected studies, and newspapers from a number of international sources. For 1945-1985, consult the print volumes.
Bibliography of American Literature
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Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. The collection is essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Yusuf ibn Antuniyus ibn Sudan al-Halabi. A Threaded Pearl of the History of the Byzantine Kings: Portrait of Sultan Sulaiman Qanuni. 1659-1667. Luna Collection.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
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1971-present; this online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 610,000 records of materials in all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, funded by German federal, state, and local governments, serves as a portal to works from Germany's cultural and scientific institutions. Works include books, archival objects, images, film, music and sound. Currently, over twenty million objects are indexed on the site, nearly eight million of which include digitized media. Copyright information and licensing rights will differ according to participating institutions. The site is searchable in German or English.
Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)
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1970-present.
Source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
Klapp-Online
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1956-2011; updated annually. Klapp, Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft = Bibliographie d'histoire littéraire française is considered the most comprehensive bibliography and index of scholarly publications on French literary studies. Klapp-Online, the online edition, is an extensive index of journal articles and book chapters, covering general works, with works arranged by century and themes. It complements the MLA International Bibliography and is particularly strong in European publications. Print volumes are available for 1956-2011.
Literature Criticism Online
Current; this resource is from the well-known Contemporary Literary Criticism and offers a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Literature Online (LION)
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Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)
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Current; provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.
MLA International Bibliography
1926-present.
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the bibliography contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
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The current release of the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and 2012.

Older / Historical Periodical Literature

APS Online
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1740-1940.
Indexes historical periodicals, including literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and more.
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, funded by German federal, state, and local governments, serves as a portal to works from Germany's cultural and scientific institutions. Works include books, archival objects, images, film, music and sound.
DigiZeitschriften
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Covers German scholarly journals in art history as well as a number of other fields. Years of coverage vary by journal (see "Open Access" section of site)
Readers' Guide Abstracts
1983-present.
Includes abstracts and indexing of over 450 popular magazines and other periodicals.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
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1890-1982.
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Print volumes. Index to British periodicals of the Victorian era.

Kalakacharyakatha: King Gardabhilla Brought Captive to Kalaka. Indian, Gujarat, ca. 1450. Courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Internet

Bibliography for Work in Comparative Literatures and Cultures
Compiled by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, University of Alberta.