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Ensayo de Crítica Literaria sobre "La Muñeca Menor" de Rosario Ferre

Literary criticism is the evaluation, comparison, analysis, or interpretation of literary works. Criticism may examine the themes in the work, look at the author's writings as a collection, analyze a work through a particular lens or school of thought, or compare works of the same theme, genre, time period, etc.).

NOTE: A book review is different from literary criticism. Book reviews summarize the book and give the reviewer's opinion on whether the book is worth reading. Authors of book reviews can intend them for a general or an academic audience.

Resources for workshop (2023)

Locating Sources

La Muñeca Menor/The Youngest Doll is written by Rosario Ferre. Her life, career, and stories will give you lots to play around with for your essay.

Physical copies

Available in library stacks (4th floor). Books are shelved by topic, so browsing the area might be of interest!

Voces de Hispanoamerica by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez; Malva E. Filer (Editors)
Call Number: PQ7083 .V59 2004
ISBN: 9780838416532
Publication Date: 2003
Postmodern American Fiction by Fred Leebron; Andrew Levy; Paula Geyh (Editors)
Call Number: UNI Stacks ; PS659 .P67 1998
ISBN: 9780393316988
Publication Date: 1997

Online copies

The Youngest Doll by Rosario Ferré (Translator); Jean Franco (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0803274599
Publication Date: 2014

Great place to start, if you need introductory information, definitions, or are looking for ideas to help you focus your topic.

GALE IN CONTEXT, Biography This link opens in a new window
Online biographical reference database in the fields of literature, science, business, entertainment, politics, sports, history, current events and the arts.Biographical information on over one million people throughout history, around the world.
GALE EBOOKS This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library's powerful delivery platform puts your reference content into circulation. Researchers will have the power to Search and share results, Create mark lists, Track research through search history, Share articles using InfoTrac InfoMarks and more.

Physical resources

map of Rod Library 3rd Floor map of Rod Library 4th Floor Available in library stacks. Books are shelved by topic, so browsing the area might be of interest once you find one relevant item!

Most of our physical collection is in English, which means searching the catalog for English phrases.

OneSearch (Rod Library) This link opens in a new window
UNI's online catalog

Online resources

Locating scholarly articles or news on the context in which La Muñeca Menor was published can offer insight into your understanding of the story.

Scholarly Articles

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

News

NewspaperARCHIVE.com This link opens in a new window
NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Search with the EBSCO interface. Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Books and Book Chapters

Tips for searching the library catalog, OneSearch.

Start with an Advanced Search.
Two options (try both)
- Search the author's name as a Subject. Examples: "Ferré, Rosario"
- Enter your author's name and add criticism. "Rosario Ferré" AND criticism
Peruse the results. Consider further narrowing using filters or additional keywords.
- More popular and well-known authors may have the option to narrow by the Subject Criticism and Interpretation.
- Narrow by "Peer-reviewed Journals" or "Books" to focus on specific Source Types.

Some books are available in library stacks, and books are shelved by topic, so browsing the area might be of interest once you find one relevant item! Others are available as eBooks. If you have trouble accessing either, do not hesitate to reach out for support.

map of Rod Library 3rd Floor map of Rod Library 4th Floor

OneSearch (Rod Library) This link opens in a new window
UNI's online catalog

Scholarly Articles

OneSearch searches many (although not all) of the library's databases. It's a great place to start, but do not be afraid of jumping into individual databases for more comprehensive results.

Remember, each database is like its own store. If I go to HyVee looking for shoes, I will be disappointed. If I know to go to Famous Footwear, however, I'll have lots more options to choose from. HyVee is still a great store, but it's just not the right place to fulfill my need for shoes.

Not fully indexed in OneSearch

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

OneSearch will pull MUCH of this content

GALE ONEFILE, Informe Acadmico This link opens in a new window
"Provides access to a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America."
GALE LITERATURE CRITICISM This link opens in a new window
The 10 individual (Literature Criticism Online) brings together these series from Gale: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review, and represent a range of modern and historical. Gale literary references reach back 20 to 30 years.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.