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Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) is a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Francaise (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche, Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago.
A comprehensive database which includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works.
Index to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics.
Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
