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Modern European Languages (MEL): Reference works

Dictionaries and other Print Reference Works (non-circulating)

Shelf Number for French Dictionaries: N 443.21

Collins French dictionary. 5th U.S. ed. 2010. 443.21 COLLINS

Collins French dictionary and grammar. 7th ed. 2014. 443.21 COLLINS

Le dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford compact : francais-anglais, anglais-francais Nouvelle éd. 2004. N 443.21 DICTIONNAIRE

Le Robert & Collins dictionnaire français-anglais, anglais-français 9th ed., new ed. 2010. N 443.21 COLLINS ROBERT

Other reference works:

Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft = Bibliographie d'histoire littéraire française. 1981- N 840.16 BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Dictionnaire de citations françaises. Dictionnaires Le Robert, c2003, c1993. N 848.02 DICTIONNAIRE

Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue francaise.  nouvelle ed. 1994. 4 vols. N 840.3 BEAUMARCHAI

Le dictionnaire du littéraire. 2e éd. revue et augmentée. Presses universitaires de France, 2004. N 840.9 DICTIONNAIRE

Lexique des termes littéraires. Librairie générale française, 2001. N 840.9 LEXIQUE

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Shelf Number for German dictionaries: N 433.21

Duden - das grosse Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [electronic resource]: die umfassende Dokumentation der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Bibliographisches Institut, 2012. [CD-ROM]. NAVCD 433 DUDEN

Gebrauchswörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Englisch. De Gruyter Mouton. 2013. N 433.21 USAGE

Langenscheidts Taschenworterbuch Englisch : Englisch-Deutsch. Deutsch-Englisch. Langenscheidt, c2002. N 433.21 LANGENSCHEIDTS

Other Reference Works:

Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon : biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch. 3., vollig neu bearb. Aufl. 1968 – 1992. N 830.3 DEUTSCHES

Einführung in die neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft : ein Arbeitsbuch. 7., vollst. überarb. Aufl.  Erich Schmidt. 2005. GV 830.1 PETERSON

Kindlers neues Literaturlexikon. herausgegeben von Walter Jens ; Chefredaktion Rudolf Radler. Kindler. 1992. N 803.31 KINDLERS

KLG:  Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. herausgegeben von Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Band 1-11. L6 Ref Collection

Lexikon Literatur: Begriffe und Definitionen. 3. Aufl. Metzler. 2007. N 803 METZLER

Literaturlexikon : Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache.  Vols 1-12. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag. 1992. N 830.9 LITERATURLEXIKON

Metzler Deutsche Literaturgeschichte: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Klett. 2010. GV 830.9 WUCHERPFENNIG

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Shelf number for Portuguese Dictionaries: N 469.21

Collins Portuguese dictionary, 2nd ed. HarperCollins, 2001. EDUN 469.321 COLLINS (Groenkloof Ref Coll.)

Larousse concise dictionary : Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese Houghton Mifflin, 2010. N 469.321 LAROUSSE

The Oxford new Portuguese dictionary : Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese. Berkley Books, 2008. EDUN 469.321 OXFORD (Groenkloof Ref Coll.)

The Oxford paperback Portuguese dictionary: Portuguese - English: English – Portuguese. Oxford University Press, 1996. N 469.321 WHITLAM

Portugees-Afrikaanse woordeboek= Dicionário Português-Africanse. UNISA, 1986, c1975. N 469.33936 PORTUGEES-AFR

Visual bilingual dictionary : Portuguese-English Dorling Kindersley; First Edition Translations, Ltd. 2010. N 469.321 VISUAL

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Shelf Number for Spanish Dictionaries: N 463.21

A bibliographical guide to Spanish American literature: twentieth-century sources. 1988.N 860.16 RELA.

Cassell's colloquial Spanish: a handbook of idiomatic usage including Latin-American Spanish, 3rd, rev. ed. 1980. N 463.21 GERRARD

Collins Spanish dictionary, 9th ed. Collins, 2011. N 463.21 COLLINS

Diccionario Espasa literatura española. Espasa, c2003. N 860.903 BREGANTE

Diccionario Oxford compact Español - Inglés, Inglés - Español = Pocket Oxford Spanish dictionary : Spanish-English, English-Spanish, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, c2005. N 463.21 DICCIONARIO.

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Literary Terms & Theory

The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism / Childers and Hentzi, (eds.) 1995. N 803 COLUMBIA

A Glossary of Literary Terms /  Abrams and Harpham. 10th ed. 2012. N 803 ABRAMS

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Oxford Reference Online (electronic reference works)

New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.)   2015

Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)     2015

Oxford Paperback Thesaurus (4 ed.)   2012

The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion. (3 ed.) 2015 (online).

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English. 2002 (online).

Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage. 2nd ed. 2008 (online).

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. 2nd ed. 2014 (online).

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. 3rd ed. 2011 (online).

A Guide to Countries of the World (3 ed.) 2014.

Visual English Dictionary. 2005.

World Encyclopedia. 2014. 

World Flags. 2004.

World Maps. 2004.

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. 2013 (online).

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. 3rd ed. 2014 (online).

A Dictionary of Critical Theory. 2010 (online).

A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works. 3rd ed. 2015 (online).

Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. 3rd ed. 2011 (online).

Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. 3rd ed. 2012 (online).

Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 4th ed. 2015 (online).

Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2nd ed. 2014 (current online version).

Oxford Dictionary of Plays. 2nd ed. 2015 (online).

Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. 2007 (online).

Focus on: Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Business French Dictionary: English-French / French-English

Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish/Spanish-English

Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English German/German-English (4 ed.)

Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary: English-Latin/Latin-English (3 ed.)

Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish/Spanish-English (4 ed.)

Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French/French-English (4 ed.)