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Portuguese/Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies: Finding Books at Yale

Resources for the study of Luso-Brazilian literature and culture.

Reference Works

Enciclopédia de literatura brasileira. 2 vols. 2001 (PQ 9506 .E53 2001+ Oversize - SML)

Dicionário literário brasileiro. 1978. (PQ9506 M45 1978+ Oversize - LFS)

Dicionário de literatura: literatura portuguesa, literatura brasileira, literatura galega, estilística literária. 5 vols. 1994.
(PQ9006 C63 1994 - Starr Reference Room)

Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Vol. 3, Brazilian literature. Online book.

How to Find Books at Yale University Library

Orbis - Yale University Library Catalog

Get It @ Yale (Borrow Direct, Interlibrary Loan, Scan and Deliver)

Finding Books Outside of Yale University Library

WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog. Contains millions of records of items owned by libraries around the world. It includes: books, films and slides, journals and newspapers (NOT individual articles), manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sounds recordings, computer files and videotapes.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
The CRL Catalog is the online catalog of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. It focuses on hard-to-find materials including: archival materials, newspapers and periodicals (foreign & domestic, specialized), foreign doctoral dissertations, U.S. state documents, US and foreign academic publications.
HathiTrust digital library
Literatura Digital: Biblioteca de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa
O Acervo de obras literárias contem 74,738 obras, 18,578 autores cadastrados e 4.326 arquivos digitalizados.

Subject Headings

By country and period:

Brazilian literature--20th century
Portuguese literature--16th century--History and criticism

By genre:

Brazilian poetry
Portuguese fiction
Brazilian drama
Theater--Brazil
Visual poetry, Brazilian
Latin American essays
Chapbooks, Brazilian
Novel
Drama
Popular literature
Fiction
Fairy tales
Poetry--Portugal
Prose literature
Comic books, strips
Motion pictures--Brazil

By movement:

Romanticism
Baroque

By individual author's name:

Rosa, João Guimarães
Telles, Lygia Fagundes

By individual literary work:

Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580. Lusíadas.

Thematic:

Plots
Semiotics and literature
Women and literature
Intertextuality
Brazil in literature
Doubles in literature
Satires
Coplas

Background information:

Brazil--Social Life and Customs
Portugual--Civilization
Portugal--Intellectual Life-19th century