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Modern French Language Dictionaries
A wide range of French and French-English dictionaries is shelved in Olin Reference on the first floor of Olin Library, in the PC 2001 - 3800 range. Many dictionaries are also housed in the Olin stacks.
- Le Robert & Collins Dictionnaire : Français-Anglais, Anglais-Français : Senior par Beryl T. Atkins ... [et al.]. 4th ed. Glasgow ; New York : HarperCollins, 1995. English title: Collins Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary, Unabridged. Olin stacks, PC2640 C53w 1995
- Le nouveau petit Robert : dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française. Paris : Dictionnaires Le Robert, c1993. Library Annex AG25 .R64x 1996
- The Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French, edited by Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy. Paris : Hachette Livre ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. 3rd ed. Olin Room 604-605, PC2640 O83x 2001 + (Non-Circulating)
- Encyclopédie du bon français dans l’usage contemporain; difficultés, subtilités, complexités, singularités [par] P. Dupré. Comité de rédaction sous la présidence de Fernand Keller, avec la collaboration de Jean Batany. Paris, Editions de Trévise [1972] 3 v. Olin PC2460 D94 + v.1-3
- Harrap’s slang : dictionary, English-French = dictionnaire, français-anglais, edited by Georgette A. Marks, Charles B. Johnson. Edinburgh : Harrap ; [New York] : Distributed by Prentice Hall, 1993. Olin Reference PC3741 .H29
Literary Translations
In addition to book reviews covering specific translations, here are some resources for evaluating translations:
- Dictionary of Literary BiographyProvides access to biographical essays focusing on all genres and time periods of American and British literature and selected other literatures. Essays discuss the lives and careers of authors and summarize critical responses to their work.
Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English by Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) PN241 .E56x 2000 v.1-2ISBN: 1884964362Publication Date: 2000-12-01Provides an historical and analytical survey of the theory and practice of literary translations into English from the principal world languages and from the works of major writers. Entries, arranged alphabetically, are of one of three kinds: 1) general and historical surveys of literary translations into English from the major world languages, classical and modern; 2) topics related to the history, theory, and practice of literary translation into English; and 3) major writers and texts: analytical accounts of the treatment in English translation of single translated works, or all the significant translated works, by major world authors.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies by Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) P306 .R68x 1998ISBN: 0415093805Publication Date: 1998-01-09