Barnard
College Library Research Guide
BC3159x: Junior Colloquium
Skepticism and Affirmation
Professor Maire Jaanus |
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The
development of modern concepts
of subjectivity and authority.
The rise of art and the artist.
Humanism, rationalism, and empiricism.
Sadism and evil.
The exploration of limits, and the limitless. |

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Conversion of Saint Paul,
1600-1601
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
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Lady with an Ermine, 1483-1490
Leonardo da Vinci
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Contents
Works Available On-line |
Film
Versions in the Barnard or Columbia Libraries
Using Reference Books to Find Background Information
Using CLIO | Using
Indexes | Using the World Wide Web
Classes on Research Skills
| Consultation
Request Form
CUBBoard
for this class
WORKS
AVAILABLE ON-LINE
Many of the works on the syllabus can be found in one of the following collections of
on-line books:
Bartleby.com
Bibliomania
Columbia
University Institute
for Learning Technologies
Concordance.com (Full text
along with searchable word indexes)
The Internet Public Library
LION:
Literature Online (Only available on Columbia campus or via Columbia dial-in modem
pool)
The On-Line Books Page
(University of Pennsylvania)
The Reading Room
(University of Maryland)
Project Gutenberg
These works are not
included in the
on-line collections listed above, but are available at the URLs indicated: |
- Bacon, The Great Instauration, The New
Organum
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/bacon/title.htm (Hanover
Historical Texts Project)
- Castiglione, The Courtier
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html (Renascence Editions)
- Donne, Poetry
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/donne.html or
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebib.htm
(Luminarium.org)
- Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
http://smith2.sewanee.edu/Erasmus/pofppv.html
(Erasmus Text Project)
- Hobbes, Leviathan
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/hobbes/leviathan.html
(Renascence Editions)
- Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/faustus.html (Perseus Project)
- Middleton, The Changeling
http://www.tech.org/~cleary/change.html
- Pascal, Pensees
http://www.ccel.org/p/pascal/pensees/pensees.htm (Christian Classics Ethereal
Library)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1660pascal-pensees.html
(Modern
History Sourcebook)
- Petrarch, Ascent of Mont Ventoux
http://history.hanover.edu/early/petrarch/pet17.htm (Hanover Historical Texts
Project)
- Petrarch, Secret
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~amtower/SECRET.HTM
- Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Mirandola/
- Sidney, A Defence of Poesie
http://eserver.org/poetry/defense-of-poesie.txt
(The English Server)
- Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/TouReve.html
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| WORKS WITH A VIDEO VERSION AVAILABLE AT BARNARD OR
COLUMBIA
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- Marlowe, Doctor Faustus. 1967 movie with
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
BARNARD MEDIA PR2664 .A1 1987g and BUTLER MEDIA PR2664 .A1 1987g.
- Middleton, The Changeling. 1993 BBC
production with Bob Hoskins, Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Grant.
BUTLER MEDIA PR2714
.C5 1998b
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| OTHER RELEVANT VIDEOS AT BARNARD AND COLUMBIA
LIBRARIES
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- The Age of Faith to the Age of Reason.
Lectures on medieval, Renaissance and early modern philosophy.
BARNARD MEDIA VIDEO B73 .G732 1992g Pt. 2
- Artemisia. 1997 movie about Artemisia
Gentileschi, the daughter of one of Italy's greatest painters. French dialogue;
English subtitles.
BARNARD VIDEO PN1997 .A763 1997g
- Art of the Western World.
An introduction to and study of artistic masterpieces from the Western
world.
BUTLER MEDIA RESERVES VIDEO N5300 .A783 1989g
BARNARD MEDIA VIDEO N5300 .A783 1989g
- Blaise Pascal. 1971 movie directed by Roberto
Rossellini about the mathematician and philosopher Pascal.
BUTLER MEDIA VIDEO PN1997 .B585 1991g
- Caravaggio. 1986 film by Derek Jarman about
the life of the painter Caravaggio.
BARNARD VIDEO ND623.C26 C262 1987g
- Dangerous Beauty. Drama based on the life
of Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th century Italy.
BARNARD VIDEO DG678.24.F73 D25 1998g
- Dante, the Journey of our Life. Documentary
about the life and work of Dante Alighieri.
BARNARD VIDEO PQ4335 .D35 1991g
- The Draughtman's Contract. 1983 movie by
Peter Greenaway with Anthony Higgins and Janet Suzman, set in 1694.
BARNARD VIDEO PN1997 .D735 1990g
- Film Form / Art Form: Leonardo's
Deluge; a Mosque in Time; Sainte-Genevieve, the Pantheon of Domes.
Presents three short documentaries, along with discussion on the making
of films which interpret works of art.
BARNARD MEDIA VIDEO PN1995.9.A73 A7 1991g
- God's Outlaw: the Story of William Tyndale. Documentary about the early English reformer who was pursued by King Henry VIII,
Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas More across Europe for his efforts to translate the Bible into
English.
BARNARD VIDEO BR350.T8 G6 1987
- Great Philosophers: a History of
Western Philosophy. Bryan
Magee interviews several contemporary philosophers on the great
philosophers of the past.
BUTLER MEDIA RESERVES VIDEO B72 .G735 1997g
- A Man for All Seasons. Movie version of
Robert Bolt's play about Thomas More.
BUTLER MEDIA RESERVES DVD0320; BARNARD MEDIA DVD PR6052.O39 M3 1998g; BARNARD VIDEO
PR6052.O39 M3 1985g
- Michel de Montaigne "Que scais-je?" Film
(in French) examining Montaigne's life and work.
BARNARD VIDEO PQ1643 .M548 1996g
- Paradise Lost: the Bible and History.
Documentary on the history and influence of the Bible from the
Reformation to the present day.
BARNARD VIDEO BS635.2 .T47 1991g
- The Reformation, Age of Revolt.
Documentary film describing the political, social, and religious conflicts of early
sixteenth century Europe, and their consequences for the modern world
BARNARD VIDEO BR305.2 .R375 1973
- The Renaissance. 1993 documentary series of
five films depicting the lives of well known people of the Renaissance and their ideas on
art, science, government, nature and religion.
BARNARD VIDEO CB359 .R46 1993g
- Romance and Reality; Man, the Measure of All Things;
The Hero as Artist; Protest and Communication; Grandeur and Obedience; The Light
of Experience. Programs 3 through 8 of the 1969 TV series Civilisation
by Kenneth Clark.
BARNARD VIDEO CB68 .C54 1993g
- Rome Revisited. 1995 documentary about
Renaissance and Baroque Rome.
BUTLER RESERVES VIDEO NA1120 .R66 1995g
- Return to Glory: Michelangelo Revealed. 1986
TV documentary about the restorations in the Sistine Chapel.
BARNARD VIDEO ND623.B92 R47
- Shakespeare, Plays. Various
productions.
BARNARD MEDIA and BUTLER MEDIA
- The Way of the World. 1978
BBC production of William Congreve's Restoration comedy.
BARNARD VIDEO PR3364 .W3 1978g
- Where Luther Walked. 1992 documentary about
Martin Luther.
BARNARD VIDEO BR325 .W53 1992g
- Yo, la Peor de Todas (I, the Worst of All).
Historical drama about Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, based on "Sor Juana Ines
de la Cruz, o, las Trampas de la Fe" by Octavio Paz.
BARNARD VIDEO PQ7249.J6 Z7249 1990g
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FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON YOUR TOPIC
USING REFERENCE BOOKS
When you are beginning to research your
topic, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books can provide useful background
information and bibliographies that can lead you to relevant books and articles. The
reference books in this list are available in the Barnard Library reference area on the
second floor.
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Title |
Barnard Reference
Call Number |
| General |
Dictionary of
Italian Literature
|
PQ4006 .D45 1996 |
| Dictionary of
Literary Terms and Literary
Theory |
PN41 .C83
1998 |
| Dictionary of
Literary Themes and Motifs
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PN43 .D48 1988 |
| Oxford Companion to
English Literature |
PR19 .D73 1985b |
| Encyclopedias |
Dictionary of Art
|
N31 .D5 1996 |
| Encyclopedia
Britannica (Renaissance Science in Vol. 27) |
AE5 .E363 1990 |
| Encyclopedia of the
Renaissance |
CB361 .E52 1999 |
| Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
B51
.R68 1998 |
| World Philosophy:
Essay-Reviews of 225 Major Works |
B29 .W68
1982 |
| Criticism |
British Writers
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PR85 .B688 |
| LC: Literature
Criticism from 1400 to 1800
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PN86 .L56 |
| SC: Shakespearean
Criticism |
PR2965 .S43 |
| Biographical |
DLB: Dictionary of
Literary Biography
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PS129
.D5 |
| European Writers
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PN501 .E9 1983
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| Bibliographies |
The Essential
Milton |
PR3581 .K54
1989 |
| Marlowe Criticism: A
Bibliography |
PR2673 .C52 1978 |
USING CLIO TO FIND
BOOKS AND JOURNALS
You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the
Columbia University LibraryWeb.
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to
the Columbia University Libraries since 1981; for older materials, use the card catalogs.
- Works of literature and literary criticism have Library of
Congress call numbers starting with P. For an overview of the Library of Congress
Classification Outline click here.
- Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary and the
Law Librarys holdings are not listed in CLIO; they have their own online library
catalogs. CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL Research Libraries. There
are links to these library catalogs from the Catalogs
list on CU LibraryWeb.
USING
INDEXES TO FIND CITATIONS TO PERIODICAL ARTICLES
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On the Databases (Reference Works &
Indexes) list on the Barnard Library
homepage, there are over 300 indexes, databases
and catalogs which can enable you to find citations for journal articles and books, and
also the full text of many articles. |
- Read the descriptions of the indexes to find out which
ones might be the most useful for your research
- Search by keyword or subject to find some germane
citations
- In CLIO, look up the titles of the journals in which the
articles appear - in the brief view (Web version), or the title index
screen (Telnet version), the title of a journal is followed by
"serial"
- If you are using the Telnet version of CLIO, use the hol
command to examine the libraries holdings and find out where the volume you want is
located
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The indexes and databases listed below
will probably be the most relevant to your research.
Humanities
Abstracts
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- Citations and abstracts for articles, book reviews, etc.
in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing
arts, philosophy, religion and world history and literature, published from 1984 to the
present
- The journal and volume in which the
article appears is given in the "Source" field. If the
link "Search the catalog at Columbia" appears, a CLIO search
for the journal is carried out when you click on it. However, the
database is not always up to date with the holdings of the Columbia
Libraries, so it is best to search CLIO yourself every time.
- To e-mail results to yourself: click on the
"E-mail" button at the top
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MLA Bibliography
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- Citations for articles, dissertations, books etc. on
literature, linguistics, language, and folklore, published from 1963 to the present
- Dissertations may be harder to obtain than articles in
journals, so it is probably best to limit search to articles
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JSTOR
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- A full text database of articles from over
120 scholarly
journals, from each journals first issue up to 3 to 5 years ago
- There are no abstracts for most articles, and no subject
headings at all, so searching in the title is the most direct search; a full text search
will often find too many irrelevant articles
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ProQuest
Direct |
- Full text database of articles from newspapers,
magazines and
scholarly journals
- To select scholarly journals, click on
"Collections" at top left, select "PA Research II--Peer Reviewed," then click on
"Search Methods - Guided"
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Women's
Resources International |
- Citations for articles on women's studies, gender studies,
feminist theory and criticism, published from 1972 to the present
- With an advanced search, you
can specify a geographic area, time period, etc.
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FINDING INFORMATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Subject Guides to the Internet on the Barnard and
Columbia Libraries Homepages
Both the Barnard and Columbia Library homepages have lists of recommended Web pages on
various topics. These make a good place to start with finding information on
the World Wide Web.
The Subject
Guides to Online Resources page, available from the Barnard Library homepage, includes
subject guides on art, history, literature, politics, ready reference, science, theater,
women's studies, etc.
The Subject Guides
to Electronic
Resources page is available from the Columbia University Libraries LibraryWeb page.
| Some Useful Web Pages for this Course |
- Leonardo
da Vinci and La
Renaissance: Resources from the WebMuseum in Paris (in English)
- Luminarium.org:
Renaissance Literature: Resources, essays and articles on 16th century Renaissance
English literature
- Machiavelli
Online
- A Mighty Fortress is
Our God: Web site devoted to the life and work of Martin Luther
- Online
Literary Criticism Collection: Contains links to over 3000 critical and
biographical Web sites about authors and their works
- Petrarch
on the Web
- The
Renaissance: Resources from the Annenberg Foundation/Corporation for Public
Broadcasting
- Renaissance
Art: Art history resources on the Web
- Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library
& Renaissance Culture: Online exhibition by the Library of Congress
about the collections of the Vatican Library in Rome
- Shakespeare
Online
- Timeline
of Western Philosophy: From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, with links to
articles on the Renaissance, Humanism, Berkeley, Machiavelli, Hobbes, etc.
- Voice of the Shuttle:
A huge collection of links to Web pages for humanities research, including
literature, history, and philosophy
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Web Searching
Click here for a Quick
Guide to Web Searching and Evaluating Information from the Web.
Writing, Planning and Researching
Help Available on the Web
A Guide for
Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association
(MLA) guidelines is available online.
For help with selecting a topic, writing
an outline, dealing with writers block, etc., consult the MIT Writing Center
or the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant.
OTHER LIBRARY SERVICES
Classes on Research Skills
Barnard Library offers classes on CLIO, the World Wide Web, and
online databases and indexes throughout the academic year by prior arrangement.
For more information, or to schedule a session, please contact the Barnard Library Reference Desk at 212-854-3953 or
refdesk@barnard.edu or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor.
Research Skills Exercise
Click here for a Research Skills Exercise to print out which
will enable you to test and improve your library research skills.
Consultation with a Reference Librarian
Click here to complete a
form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research.
Come to the Reference Desk on the second floor. We'll be happy to help you find
additional information.
Contact a reference librarian: e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu
or call 212-854-3953.
Last Modified 10/11/01
Lois Coleman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library