Databases / Internet Resources / Print Guides / Course Guides

Scholars and students of comparative literature may draw from a wide variety of sources, influences, and cultures as they explore the connections that exist and that can be forged between literatures, writers, and readers.  It is impossible to offer a "complete" or even cursory listing of best sources on the topic; however, the following sources should offer starting points for those in seek of primary texts and secondary sources.  For further assistance contact Benjamin Harris, liaison librarian for the topic of Comparative Literature.

Databases

MLA International Bibliography
Major citation index to critical scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Some full-text articles.

Arts and Humanities Search
Index to arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals.

Gale Literary Databases
Basic resource for background information on authors and works of literature. Includes the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary  Literary Criticism. Biographical information on modern authors and significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and short story writers from all eras and genres.

Literature Resource Center
Find biographical and career information on playwrights in this database.  In addition, use the subject tabs to find full text of entries on the writer in a number of reference works, some full-text examples of criticism, as well as helpful bibliographies of related material.  A lifelong timeline is also offered for each writer, to show the historical events occurring during the individual's life and work.

Internet Resources

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This peer refereed online journal from Purdue is focused on publishing "scholarship in the widest definition of comparative literature and culture in combining comparative literature with cultural studies as 'comparative cultural studies.' Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in all of its products and processes; its theoretical and methodological framework is built on tenets borrowed from the discipline of comparative literature and cultural studies" as well as other interrelated disciplines.

Literary Resources: Other National Resources
This Rutgers site provides the very best selection of maintained links to primary materials related to non-U.S. authors.  It includes links to texts from authors of the following nationalities:  Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese,  Russian, Slavic, Scandinavian, Scottish, Spanish, Turkish, and Welsh.

VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
This website designed for researchers in Humanities disciplines aims "to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media."  VoS is one of the very best portals for information on a number of the topic that help construct the study of comparative literature.

For more internet resources: Comparative Literature Internet Resources 

Print Guides

How to Find Information in Print on Comparative Literature

Course Guides

Prepared by librarians for specific courses, these course guides offer instructions for starting your research, drawing from reference sources, books in the regular collection, and online databases and internet resources.

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