Databases
Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles may be located by searching the Library’s subscription databases. Listed below are suggestions for the most useful databases for articles on topics in Spanish language and literature. A complete list of our Digital Resources are available from the Databases link.
- Academic Search Premier [INFO]
- Humanities International Index [INFO]
- MLA International Bibliography[INFO]
Books and More
The Library catalog (LOLA) is a database of books and other print and non-print materials, such as videos/DVDs, music CDs, and scores. The catalog offers a variety of searches - Keyword, Subject, Author, Title, and Call Number. There are hundreds of topical subject headings for specific literary genres, defined periods, movements, or other concepts pertaining to literature.Genre headings are fairly uniform, are organized by nationality, and may be subdivided by century, or other time period. There is also a great variety of other literary subject headings. A few select examples:
- Subject search for Spanish American literature (or fiction, poetry, drama, etc.)
- Subject search for Spanish literature (or fiction, poetry, drama, etc.)
- Subject search for Spanish Language
- Subject search for Civilization Hispanic
- Subject search for Spain civilization
- Subject search for Latin America civilization
- Subject search for Latin American literature (or fiction, poetry drama, etc.)
- Subject search for Authors, Spanish
To search for works by or about specific writers:
Search by SUBJECT to find biographical and/or critical material about the writer.
Search by AUTHOR to find books written by the author.
Always enter personal names in INVERTED order; punctuation and capitalization not necessary.
EXAMPLE: To find books about the novelist Federico Garcia Lorca, search under SUBJECT as follows:
Note specific subdivisions after the name heading that designate:
Reference Material
Reference sources usually are a good starting point for research - they provide background information on a topic, define key concepts, or cite critical research that has been done. Some key resources for Spanish language or literature are listed below.
- Larousse gran diccionario : inglés-español, español-inglés
- Wiley’s English-Spanish, Spanish-English business dictionary
- Hamel’s bilingual dictionary of Mexican Spanish = Diccionario bilingue Hamel de mexicanismos
- Hamel’s bilingual dictionary of Latin American Spanish = Diccionario bilingüe Hamel de americanismos
- The feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature
- Spanish and Portuguese literatures and their times : (the Iberian Peninsula)
- Latin American literature and its times
- Hispanic literature criticism
- Spanish women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book
- Spanish American authors : the twentieth century
- Twentieth-century Spanish poets.
- Modern Spanish American poets. First series.
- Modern Latin-American fiction writers.
- Encyclopedia of Latin American theater
See also the TCLC, CLC, and NCLC literary criticism series listed on the guide for English Literature, which have extensive coverage of international writers. Additional reference titles may be identified by seaching the Library catalogue, by consulting with a Reference Librarian, or browsing the PQ7000-8000 section of the Reference Shelves.
Web Sites
In general, web sites are not the best choices for serious research because there is no guarantee the information posted there is authoritative, current, or sufficiently in-depth. Only use sites that you know are reputable, scholarly, current, and unbiased. The following are links to sites that seem to meet these criteria:
- Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - Spanish
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project
- Cervantes Project
- Don Quixote de la Mancha
- LANIC: Literature (Latin American Network Information Center)
- Golden Age Sonnets
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