Romance Languages & Literatures
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Suggested Axinn Databases
These databases are available to Hofstra students and faculty both on and off campus through your Hofstra portal.
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Academic Search Ultimate
Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. Includes over 9,000 active full-text journals and magazines
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ARTFL
North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including classic works of French literature.
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Dictionary of Literary BiographySystematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
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PASCAL AND FRANCISMore than 14 million bibliographic references from the Free Access to Pascal and Francis databases
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Iter Bibliography (Middle Ages and Renaissance)Iter Bibliography is comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismCompiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. In addition, more than 3 million of the images in Artstor are now discoverable alongside JSTOR’s vast scholarly content, providing you with primary sources and vital critical and historical background on one platform.
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MLA International BibliographyProvides scholarly access to 4,000 journals, also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats. Contains some full-text articles
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Project MuseFull text. Access to over 300 journals in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Italian Studies Databases
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Italian Dialect PoetryThis website is dedicated to the great tradition of Italian Dialect Poetry, which is presently undergoing a huge revival and is one of the most significant features of the Italian literary scene. It is organized by region and poet's name.
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Italian Women WritersIWW includes authors from the 13th century up to authors born in 1945. The following types of works will be included: anthologies, articles and essays, autobiographies, biographies, children's literature, devotional works, dialogues, diaries, dramas, epics, hagiographies, histories and chronicles, interviews and conversations, letters, memoirs, novels, operas, poems, reviews, short stories, and travel literature.
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ItalinemoAnalysis, indexing of journals of Italian studies published in the world since 2000. Abstract for each product.