Articles on Literary Criticism
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of literature, language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and folklore. International in scope; coverage from 1926 to the present. Includes access to the
MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)Provides compilations of literary criticism. Includes the complete runs of
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism,
Contemporary Literary Criticism,
Drama Criticism,
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800,
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism,
Poetry Criticism,
Shakespearean Criticism,
Short Story Criticism, and
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)Provides full text access to critical essays, work and topic overviews, texts from literary magazines, biographies, and more. Covers a wide range of authors including novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists.
JSTORProvides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The most recent three to five years of a journal are usually not included.
Project MuseProvides full-text access to books and journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Articles : Suggested
Dialnet (Universidad de La Rioja)Indexes journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, dissertations, and other documents in the social sciences and the humanities published mostly in Spain and to a lesser extent in Latin America. Much of the content in available in full text.
Humanities Full Text (EBSCO)Indexes and abstracts academic journals, magazines, and book reviews in the humanities. Includes abstracts and selected full text. Coverage extends back to 1984.
JSTORProvides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The most recent three to five years of a journal are usually not included.
Project MuseProvides full-text access to books and journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)Indexes academic journals, magazines, books, book reviews, and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present, excluding North American history which is covered in the companion index
America: History and Life. Includes abstracts for academic journal articles and selective full text content. Coverage extends back to 1953.
Books, ILL and EZBorrow
Falvey Library CatalogKeyword and subject searches in the Library's catalog are good starting points when first exploring a topic. Search results can be narrowed with facets such as topic, era, language or region. Facets are located on the right hand side of the results screen.
Examples of Library of Congress subjects:Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Examples of keyword searches:cervantes AND influence"siglo de oro" AND criticismWorldCat (FirstSearch)Presents a combined catalog of the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest)Provides citations, abstracts, and full text, when available, of dissertations and theses from 1743 to the present.
EZBorrow and Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary loans are only available for books and journals which are not owned by Falvey. The EZBorrow service can be used for books which the library owns, but which are currently checked out. EZBorrow books are provided by a local library network and tend to arrive faster than interlibrary loans.
Books @ Falvey on Cervantes and His Works
To help you locate that "perfect" book on your topic, here are some links to other subject headings on Cervantes:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Characters
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616. -- Don Quixote.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Characters -- Don Quixote.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616. -- Novelas ejemplares.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Technique.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Philosophy
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Political and social views.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Influence.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Knowledge
Picaresque literature, Spanish -- History and criticism
Nationalism and literature -- Spain. Cambridge Collections Online
Biographical Information
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (Gale)Provides full text access to biographical and critical essays on important literary figures from all eras, genres, and geographic areas. Many essays include manuscript pages, portraits, excerpts of criticism, bibliographies, and more. Electronic access extends back to 1978.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)Provides full text access to critical essays, work and topic overviews, texts from literary magazines, biographies, and more. Covers a wide range of authors including novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists.
Falvey Library CatalogThe Library's catalog enables patrons to search & browse Falvey Library’s collection of books, journals, audio/video materials, electronic resources and more.
Style Guides
Fighting windmills: Cambridge University Library online exhibition
"To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, Cambridge University Library has released a virtual exhibition showcasing some rarely seen material from a wide number of collections.
The exhibition, which came out just before Christmas, focuses on Cervantes most celebrated character: Don Quixote. It aims to highlight some of the ways in which this figure has been appropriated by readers, artists and other writers throughout the centuries with a wide range of beautifully illustrated material."
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