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This guide lists selected print and online information sources related to World Literature 401: Early Modernities and available to SFU faculty, students, and staff.
If you need help, please contact Ivana Niseteo, iniseteo@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
Books and articles
To find books at the library, use the Library Catalogue.
Suggested subject headings
- Civilization Modern
- Europe History 15th Century
- Humanism History
- Literature Modern 15th and 16th Centuries History and Criticism
- Mediterranean Region History
- Science Arab Countries History
- Science Islamic Countries History
Suggested readings
- Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought [online or print]
- Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early Abbasid society
- Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
- Geomodernisms: race, modernism, modernity [print]
- Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks [print or online]
- The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In [print or online]
Suggested journal article databases
Index to Medieval and Renaissance journals and books.
Bibliographic index to journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects covered include language, literature, linguistics, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, printing and publishing.
Multidisciplinary index to academic & popular journals.
Gale, Literary Sources
Comprehensive biographical and critical articles on international literary authors.
Comprehensive biographical and critical articles on international literary authors.
Background information
- Encyclopedia of literary modernism [print]
- Literary history: towards a global perspective [print]
- Studying transcultural literary history [print]
- New dictionary of the history of ideas [print]
Citing and writing
For help with citation management, writing guides and understanding issues of plagiarism, see World Literature information resources: Citing & writing Library guide.