Le Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Age au XXe siècle: Romans, Contes, Nouvelles. B.A.S.I.L.E. (Base internationale de Littérature Électronique) Coproduced by Éditions Champion Électronique and the CNED

Search in Texts

You may limit your search by the following fields. Turn on Caps Lock to search regardless of accentuation and realize that all apostrophes must be followed by a space (e.g., l' EcartE). Uppercase AND, OR, and NOT serve as Boolean operator in these fields.

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Conditions of Use

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1. Introduction
2. Searching the Bibliography
    2.1 Bibliographic Fields
    2.2 Retrieving and Navigating Documents
3. Character Representation for Search Terms
    3.1 Accents and Special Characters
    3.2 Wildcard Characters and Boolean Operators
    3.3 Punctuation Marks and Searching
4. Selecting a Search Option
    4.1 Single Term and Phrase Search (Default)
    4.2 Proximity Searching in the Same Sentence or Paragraph
5. Selecting a Results Format
    5.1. Concordance Report (300 characters plus)
    5.2. KWIC Report (a single line of text)
    5.3. Frequency by Title
    5.4. Frequency by Author
    5.5. Navigating Documents from Word Searches
6. Getting More Help

Full-Text Searching Tips

Bibliographic Searching:
Genre: Click on the Terms button to see a list of genre available. Searching for some genres may require use of the NOT operator. To find "Narratif, Roman" without "Narratif, Roman, par lettres" enter Roman NOT lettres. To find only Narratif, Roman, par lettres, you may enter roman AND lettres.
Author, Editor, and Title: Many titles and their authors' names contain accented characters and must be entered as such; however, in order to enter words without having to pay attention to accents simply turn on Caps Lock and type in uppercase. In bibliographic searches, punctuation and spacing must match exactly that in the bibliography. Please note that a space must be entered after an apostrophe (e.g., Aventures d' AristonoUs).
Dates: There are three ways to search for dates.

• Century of Composition: Centuries are to be entered by number (15th century = 15). This is a numeric field so one may search within a range of centuries (11-15). Many medieval texts are of uncertain date. The Century of Composition field is especially useful if one is searching within medieval texts.
• Date of Composition: This is a numeric field so one may search within a range of years (1788-1800). Texts of unknown date are noted with [s.d.]. This field is not particularly useful for medieval texts but quite accurate for texts written after 1500. Texts in the database range in date from 1086 to 1927.
• Other Dates: This field includes all dates associated with any work, including dates of all editions, date of the edition from which the data were captured, date ranges for uncertain dates, and century written. It is a string search (not numeric) and so ranges are not permitted.

Orthographic Considerations:
There is no standard orthography in this database spanning over eight centuries. Medieval abbreviations can be found as well. Wildcard characters or Boolean operators can help detect such anomalies.

Punctuation and Full-Text Searching:
Hyphens: Hyphens act as word separators. Thus, treat hyphenated expressions as separate words excluding the hyphen (e.g., if searching for soixante-cinq, type in soixante cinq).
Apostrophes: One must include apostrophes when searching words with apostrophes and one must insert a space after apostrophes since in this database apostrophes act as word separators (e.g., only by typing d' Oscar will one find d'Oscar).
Ampersands: The ampersand (&) is not a searchable character. Avoid Phrase Searches where an ampersand may be used as a conjunction.

Formatting and Display:
Greek Characters: Greek characters currently are not searchable and do not display. In the next iteration Greek will be encoded for the Web.
Notes: There are notes throughout Le Corpus de la littérature narrative. In PhiloLogic notes never interfere when searching the text to which they refer. Note references are linked to notes and text from notes are linked to page references. References are available once the user pulls up a page of text, but not from the first-level results screen. There are two kinds of notes: Authorial notes and Critical notes
Images: There are several images throughout the database. Most are displayed as inline images once the user pulls up a page of text, but not from a first-level results screen.