Latin American Language and Literature

Internet Links

For an introduction to literary research and general literary resources on the Internet, you may find the Literature on the Internet research guide helpful.

DICTIONARIES

English-Spanish Library and Information Studies Dictionary

LOGOS Dictionary - Searches in this multi-lingual dictionary retrieve terms defined and/or translated in over 40 languages

WordReference.com - This site uses the Collins translating dictionaries from HarperCollins Publishing

LOGOS Universal Conjugator - As part of its translation service, LOGOS also offers verb conjugating

PÁGINA DEL IDIOMA CASTELLANO

La PÁGINA DEL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL


DICCIONARIO LITERARIO

INDEXES

Language

LLBA - 1973-present. Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts ( Language and Language Behavior Abstracts from 1967-1985)

FRANCIS - indexes material in the humanities, social sciences, and economics --including linguistics

Web of Science   - This is a multidisciplinary database indexing journal articles; it indexes over 8,000 journals and is updated by over 20,000 articles every week

Literature

MLA -1963-present. The MLA International BibliographY, produced by the Modern Language Association of America

Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola - 1980 present.  Database in Spanish that covers texts from a wide variety of Spanish sources.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index - 1970-present. Indexes material on United States-Hispanic and Latin-American topics from more than 400 scholarly journals worldwide

Handbook of Latin American Studies - 1935-present

FRANCIS - Indexes material in the humanities, social sciences, and economics - strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature

The Association of Research Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project  - Contains a cross-section of over 350 periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

JSTOR (Journal Storage) - Dates vary, some journals going back to 1880

Project Muse - 1995-present

Web of Science - Multidisciplinary database indexing journal articles

TEXTS

General | By country | By time period

General compilations

BITblioteca: Literatura - Contains a number of texts by various authors (not all of which are in Spanish)

DEL DICHO AL HECHO - Reproduced with permission of the publisher, are the contents of the book Del dicho al hecho by Professor Esteban Giménez

The Lied and Song Texts Page   - If a poem has been set to music by a classical composer (an "art song"), then there is a good chance that it can be found here

By country

Argentina  -- Literatura Argentina Contemporánea

Colombia -- ANTOLOGÍA DE LA POESÍA COLOMBIANA

México -- Diccionario de Escritores en México

Nicaragua -- Dariana

Panama -- Literatura Panameña

Perú -- La página de los dramaturgos del Perú-Peruvian Playwrights Home Page

El Salvador -- Una mirada a la literatura de El Salvador

By time period

Medieval/Renacimiento -- Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento

Siglo de Oro -- Golden Age Sonnets

Siglo de Oro - Teatro de los Siglos de Oro from the Université de Québec à Trois Rivières

Siglo de Oro: La Conquista de América

AUTHORS

General | Cervantes | Individual authors (alphabetically)

General

Yahoo! Yahoo! has created a list of sites devoted to individual authors. Spanish-language sites, Yahoo! en español is a better choice

Escritoras.com - An alphabetical index provides access to a short biography and a bibliography of works for each of over 100 women authors writing in Spanish

Official Website of the Nobel Foundation

PhiloBiblon - Based at the University of California-Berkeley

Reflexiones: 60 Essays on Spanish American Women Writers - This is the project of Dr. Priscilla Gac-Artigas, a professor at Monmouth

Cervantes

Cervantes Project 2001 located at Texas A&M University

Centro Virtual Cervantes

H-Cervantes -The page for H-Cervantes, a listserv functioning as a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Don Quixote Exhibit - Features the holdings of the George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University

Biblioteca Quijotesca - Joaquín Aguirre has collected excerpts from the works of great writers (Afieri through Unamuno) who mention Cervantes' Quixote

Individual authors

Becquer - Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Borges - The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation The center is an academic organization based at The University of Aarhus in Denmark

Cela - Fundación Camilo José Cela, Marqués de Iria Flavia

Cortázar - Julio Cortázar

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Juana Ines [ sic ] de la Cruz: Fama y obras postumas

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College

Dalton - La página de Roque Dalton

Galeano - La página de Eduardo Galeano

García Lorca - Federico García Lorca

Gimferrer - Álbum Pere Gimferrer - Created and maintained at Brown University

Jiménez - Fundación Juan Ramón Jiménez

Machado - ABEL MARTÍN: Revista de estudios sobre Antonio Machado

Mistral - Gabriela Mistral from the Biblioteca Central at the Universidad de Chile

Pablo Neruda - The core of this page is its publication of the complete text of 20 "poemas de amor y una canciõn desesperada."

Pablo Neruda - Primarily in English, this site presents a biography and a "poetry sampler." There is also a section of essays and reviews, including his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize

Quevedo - Quevedo from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Rojas - CIBERTEXTOS INTERACTIVOS. Núm. 1: LA CELESTINA O TRAGICOMEDIA DE CALISTO Y MELIBEA DE Fernando de Rojas et alii from Miguel Garci-Gomez at Duke University

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS and LITERARY CRITICISM

LIBRO - (The Library of Iberian Resources Online) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas

Revista Electrónica de Literatura Mexicana - Free on-line periodical

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina

Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango   - Funded by the Banco de la República, this library complements the Biblioteca Nacional (which does not have a Web site)

Biblioteca Nacional de México

Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid)

Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela
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