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LANG 6095 - Spanish Research Methods - Jeronimo

This guide outlines major tools for research in Spanish literature and language study.

Use UNISTAR library catalog to find books

Use the Books/Media search to identify books and other resources on Spanish and Portuguese language, literature and culture. Keyword searches as well as subject headings can be used to identify books on particular topics.  Examples of useful subject headings are:

Latin American fiction
Latin American literature--Periodicals
Latin American poetry
Mexican literature--Translations into English
Spanish American drama
Spanish language--Grammar
Spanish language--Spoken
Spanish literature--History and criticism
Spanish poetry--To 1500
Mexico--Social life and customs
Spain--Civilization
Spain--Intellectual life
Motion pictures--Mexico
Short Stories, Spanish -- History and Criticism
Short Stories, Portuguese

Information of a certain time period may be identified by adding a century to the subject heading. Example: Art, Spanish--18th century; Spanish literature--18th century--History and criticism. If you have trouble identifying the correct subject heading, you may perform a Keyword search using the terms you want to find. You can then look through your results and when you find a source that looks promising, you can look at the subject headings given for that source and click on those subject headings to find more sources like it.