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Examples:
Author:
Emilia Pardo Bazan
Isabel Allende
Maria Louisa Bambal
Broad Concept:
spanish literature
mexican literature
hispanic literature
latin american authors

**Use the "s" feature for a title to find related subject headings.


Indexes and Databases

  • InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAPDISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library
  • Use same keywords from catalog search
  • Can use "not" in search string to exclude ideas (book reviews)
    For example: isabel allende not reviews
  • Provides indexing and some full-text
  • Provides full-text: MELUS, World Literature Today, Symposium

  • MLA International Bibliography
  • Only includes literary criticism
  • Items found may be complete books, a chapter in a book, a journal article, or a dissertation

  • Project Muse
  • All results contain full-text
  • Use advanced search screen, and limit search terms to articles

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography Online
  • Volumes 1-194 are also available in print in the Reference Collection (Ref PS 221 D55).

  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index

  • Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's WhoŽ DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library


  • Selected Reference Books

  • Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
  • Ref PQ 7081 A1 C35 1996 (3 vols.)
  • Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide
  • Ref PS 153 M4 C46 1985
  • Diccionario de Literatura Española
  • Ref PQ 6006 D5 1953
  • Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
  • Ref PQ 7081 A1 E56 1997
  • Hispanic Literature Criticism
  • Ref PQ 6039 H5 1994 (2 vols.)
  • Hispanic Writers
  • Ref PQ 7081.3 H58 1991
  • Latin American Writers
  • Ref PQ 7081 A1 L37 1989 (3 vols.)
  • Modern Latin American Literature
  • Ref PQ 7081 F63 1975 (2 vols.)
  • Spanish Women Writers
  • Ref PQ 6055 S63 1993

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography

  • Ref PS 221 D55 (only vols. 1-194)
  • Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers
  • Ref PN 481 E5 1991 (2 vols.)
  • Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
  • Ref PN 774 L433 (4 vols.)
  • Great Foreign Language Writers
  • Ref PN 524 G73 1984
  • World Authors
  • Ref PN 451 W672 year

  • Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture

  • Ref F 1406 E53 1996 (5 vols.)
  • Encyclopedia of Mexico
  • Ref F 1210 E63 1997 (2 vols.)

  • Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

  • Ref PN 471 B57 1992
  • Feminist Writers
  • Ref PN 451 F4 1996


    Journals
    Check the Library Catalog for holdings and location information.

  • Hispania: a journal devoted to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Hispanic Review
  • Latin American Literary Review
  • Revista de Estudios Hispánicos

  • Plus literary criticism journals such as:
  • Journal of Modern Literature
  • Studies in Short Fiction
  • CLA Journal
  • Contemporary Literature
  • MLN


  • Websites

  • Check the Internet Sites on the Edens Library Modern Languages and Literatures subject guide.

  • Spring 2002/Tuttle

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