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Featured resources - Literature
- A companion to world literature, ed. Ken Seigneurie (2020)
- The Routledge companion to world literature (2020)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library A collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, almanacs, and manuals in many subject areas, including World literatures, e.g.
- Literature Criticism Online
- Provides access to Literary Criticism series from Gale. It includes scholarly and popular literary commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and journals.
- The Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Features comprehensive literary biographies, written by recognized literary scholars and critics, of past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics.
- Magill's survey of world literature
- Offers profiles of major writers outside the United States from all time periods, accompanied by analysis of their significant titles of fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. Includes indexes by category and country.
Baffled by how to find World Literature books on library shelves? For a list of call numbers, check out this finding aid .
Featured resources - Languages
- WordReference: dictionaries, conjugations, pronunciations, examples in context. Ask a native speaker!
- Forvo; The pronunciation dictionary. Words are pronunciation by native speakers
- Foreign languages information resources. Guides to the resources relevant to various languages, by the SFU Library.
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New World Literature books
- Tales That Touch : Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture /
- The book of Shanghai : a city in short fiction /
- Conversations with Goethe : in the last years of his life /
- Reading Homer's Iliad /
- Italian identities /
- Distantly /
- Through the periscope : changing culture, Italian America /
- The book of Barcelona /
- The book of Reykjavik : a city in short fiction /
- Don Quijote : a revised translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /
- In case of emergency /
- Vita nuova : a dual-language edition with parallel text /
- Getting lost /
- Fifty sounds : a memoir of language, learning, and longing /
- Manikanetish /
- The book of Venice : a city in short fiction /
- Haruki Murakami and the search for self-therapy : stories from the second basement /
- Dante's multitudes : history, philosophy, method /
- Latin American documentary narratives : the intersections of storytelling and journalism in contemporary literature /
- Mythologizing performance /