Starting Your Research
Keeping a Research Log
Make your life easier: Keep track of your research progress by recording the following:
- Bibliographic information on the works you consult;
- Any developments or refinements in your topic;
- Names of key persons, authorities, cases, places, or events;
- New terms you discover in titles, abstracts, or articles that might be helpful in searching for other sources.
- Saving search results to an electronic file, for easier searching and sorting later.
Sources for Historical and Cultural Background
Most of these links will take you to the catalog record for a book, from which you can determine its location.
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Spanish and Portuguese literatures and their times : the Iberian peninsulaVery good for getting social and historical background.
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Enciclopedia HispanicaCovers Spain and Portugal
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Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian PeninsulaVery good for getting social and historical background.
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A Companion to Catalan literatureHistory and criticism.
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Historia de la literatura catalanaFour volume history, located on B1.
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New Spain, New LiteraturesEssays focus on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debates in Spain and elsewhere--the emergence of minoritized literatures, multilingualism and identity, new relationships between culture and institutions, the negotiation of historical memories, the connections between migrations and the redefinition of nationhood, and the impact of global trends on local symbolic systems.
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