Romance Languages & Literatures
A guide to scholarly resources in the field of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Suggested Axinn Databases
These databases are available to Hofstra students and faculty both on and off campus through the portal.
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Dictionary of Literary BiographySystematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
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Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)A source for over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismCompiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually.
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JSTORJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
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Iter Bibliography (Middle Ages and Renaissance)Includes secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
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Literature CriticismPresents the major literary figures and nonfiction writers of 1900 to 1999. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism presents overviews of four to eight authors of 1800 through 1899. . Literature Criticism 1400-1800. Includes resources on the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism provides critical opinion on early literature,
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Literature Resource CenterFull-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
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Magill on Literature Plus
Includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
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MLA International BibliographyProvides scholarly access to 4,000 journals, also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats. Contains some full-text articles
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Project MuseFull text. Access to over 500 journals in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Open-Access Databases
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The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO)This site's task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. Consequently, the book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs.
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Biblioteca Digital HispánicaThe Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BDH), the Spanish Digital Library, is an online resource of the National Library of Spain. The BDH currently offers online access to books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, brochures, posters, photographs, maps and atlases, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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Hispano Medievalismo : recursos en lineaExtensive database of full-text documents (medieval Spanish literature), scholarly criticism, academic journal indexes, conference proceedings, etc.