Yale University Library Research Guides: Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture: Finding Books at Yale

Reference Works

Dictionaries and Handbooks:

Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. 1978. PQ6006. O93 SML Main Reference Room and LSF
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 2012. PN41 .A184X 2012 LFS
Solé, Carlos. Latin American Writers. 1989. (3 vols.) PQ7081 A1 L37X 1989+ Oversize SML Main Reference Room

Literary Histories:

Pedraza, Felipe. Manual de literatura hispanoamericana. 1991- (7 vols) PQ7081 M3225 1991 Bass Library
Pedraza, Felipe. Manual de literatura española. 1980- . (16 vols.) PQ6032 P43 1980 SML
Mainer, José-Carlos (ed.) Historia de la literatura española. 2010- (8 vols) PQ6032 .H5634 2010 SML
Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (3 vols) PQ7081 A1 C355X 1996 Bass Library

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Teatro español del Siglo de Oro
The Teatro español del Siglo de Oro full text database contains the most important plays of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Spain, either edited by the playwrights themselves or by an editor "endorsed" by the playwright. The text is copied exactly as it was written, with all peculiarities captured - accents, abbreviations etc.
Latin American Women Writers
Latin American Women Writers (LAWW) will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete. In this prototype version there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.
Latino Literature
Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. It contains over 133,465 pages.
La novela corta: una biblioteca virtual
Esta colección ofrece un recorrido indispensable por la novela corta en México. Las primeras historias ven nacer el México independiente; las últimas, el país que surgió de la Revolución armada de 1910 y sus consecuencias culturales.

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Subject Headings

By country and period:

Spanish literature--To 1500
Spanish literature--Classic period, 1500-1700
Mexican literature--19th century
Catalan literature--History and criticism

By genre:

Latin American poetry
Mexican fiction
Brazilian drama
Theater--Brazil
Latin American essays
Picaresque literature
Novel
Drama
Fiction
Fairy tales
Poetry--Mexico
Prose literature
Comic books, strips
Motion pictures--Spain

By movement:

Romanticism
Baroque

By individual author's name:

Pardo Bazán, Emilia
Corazar, Julio

By individual literary work:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quijote

Thematic:

Plots
Semiotics and literature
Women and literature
Intertextuality
Costa Rica in literature
Doubles in literature
Satires
Coplas

Background information:

Spain--Social Life and Customs
Spain--Civilization
Spain--Intellectual Life-18th century

Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture: Finding Books at Yale

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