GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

 

Encyclopaedia Universalis. Paris: Encylopaedia Universalis France, 1992. 23v. Ref. AE 25 .E5. In French.

Grand Larousse Enyclopédique. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1960-1975. 10v. and 3 supplements. Ref. AE 25 .G749.
Littérature section contains articles on genres (épopée or roman), literary movements (classicisme, romantisme, réalisme), articles on related areas, such as théatre (comédien, comédie, tragédie). Foreign literatures and regional literatures of France are also represented. Related areas include: musique, philosophie, beaux-arts, histoire, droit et économie politique. Bibliographies appear in the back of each volume.

Grande Dizionario Enciclopedico UTET. Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1966-1975. 20v. Ref AE 35 .G751 1966.

Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1934- . 70v. plus supplements. Ref AE 61 .En19s.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London, NY: Routledge, 1998. 10v. Closed Ref B 51 .R68 1998. [For online version see http://www.library.nd.edu]

Lechte, John. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers. London, NY: Routledge, 1994. Ref B 804 .L37 1994.
A biographical dictionary divided into sections on Early Structuralism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, Feminism, Post-Marxism, Modernity, and Postmodernity. E.g., Arendt, Bakhtin, Blanchot, Irigaray.

Dictionnaire des Mythologies et des Religions des Sociétés Traditionnelles et du Monde Antique. Sous la direction de Yves Bonnefoy. Paris : Flammarion, c1981. BL 311 .D5 1981.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas. NY: Scribner’s, 1968. 5v. Ref CB 5 .D52.
E.g., Authority, Beauty, China in Western Thought.

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. NY: Scribner’s, 1999. 6v. Ref CB 361 .E52 1999.
E.g., Africa, Alchemy, Civility, Homosexuality, Women; many inidividuals; a chronology from Dante to Aphra Behn.

CT: Collective Biography, e.g.:

Dictionnaire de Biographie Française. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1933- . Ref CT 143 .D561. 18+ v.

Dicionario Biografico degli Italiani. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960-. Ref CT 1123 .D662. 55v.

Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York: Scribner's, 1982-89. 13 vols. Med. Inst. D 114 .D5 1982. Also Ref D 114 .D5 1982.

DC – France.
DG – Italy.
DP – Spain and Portugal.
DT – Africa.
F – Canada and South America.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London : Macmillan Reference; NY: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001- . 29v. Ref ML 100 .N48 2001. [For online version see http://www.library.nd.edu]

Dictionary of Art. NY: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996- . 34v. Ref N 31 .D5 1996. [For online version see http://www.library.nd.edu/]

Encyclopedia of World Art. NY: McGraw-Hill [1959-c1983]. 16v. Ref N 31 .E56.

 

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