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Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures

 

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Dawn Childress
Title: Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations and Humanities Librarian


Databases

MLA Bibliography

The MLA International Bibliography contains more than 1.7 million records for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.

Bibliografia de literatura catalana

Biblioteca Nacional (España)

Contemporary Authors

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Handbook of Latin American Studies

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

ITER: Gatway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)


Books

The CAT - Find Books and Other Materials at Penn State

You can search the CAT by entering book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be listed in the CAT according to standard Spanish usage.  You cannot enter accent marks.

Examples: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel or reino del mundo

To do a subject search, it is important to understand that literature is organized in the CAT by country, not language. The subject heading "Spanish literature" refers to literature from Spain. Examples of useful subject headings:

  • Mexican literature
  • Mexican literature -- 20th century
  • Spanish drama - 16th century - History and criticism


Call Numbers for Spanish Language and Literature

Numbers in the PC class for language:

PC4001-4977

Numbers in the PN class for literature:

PN801-820: Romance literature

Numbers in the PQ class for literature:

PQ6001 - PQ8929: Spanish Literature (Spain)
PQ7081 - PQ8560: Spanish Literature of Spanish America
PQ7100 - PQ7300: Mexico
PQ7471 - PQ7539: Central America (alphabetical by country)
PQ7551 - PQ8549: South America (alphabetical by country)

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

LANIC's Mexico News Page

Latin American Journals and Magazines via LANIC


To find newspaper articles in Spanish:

NewsCAT  (Use NewsCAT to locate newspapers in any University Libraries collections)

Press Display Electronic Image Database (choose information by country and get the recent newspapers)

Electronic Texts