Journal Articles
The Library subscribes to a variety of online databases, which index scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Most of the Library's online indexes cover specific geographic areas, time periods, or academic disciplines. Carefully read the database description in order to select the best resource for your project. Good starting points are the following indexes:
Articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index - Web of Science (Clarivate)Indexes core journals in the arts and humanities. Includes citing and cited references for each article. Search fields include article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, address word (i.e., author's institution), and funding agency. Coverage goes back to 1991.
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.
Books
Library Catalog WorldCat (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
The Library has a large number of subject specific online encyclopedias, companions and handbooks with exhaustive and well-researched entries written by subject experts. These essays are generally helpful startiing points and can help you in defining and focusing your topic. Essays generally include bibliographies that will lead you to further sources on your topic.
Encyclopedias and Handbooks
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (Cambridge University Press)Surveys Latin American history, politics, art and literature from the nineteenth century to the present.
Cambridge companion to the Latin American NovelNovels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Indispensable to students of Latin American studies, of comparative literature and of the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation
Cambridge companion to the Spanish novel : from 1600 to the Present Cambridge History of Latin American LiteratureEmphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.
Cambridge History of Spanish Literature.See Chapter 34. Santiáñez, Nil. "Great masters of Spanish Modernism", The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 479-499. Cambridge Histories Online.
This is the first comprehensive history of Spanish literature, to be published in English, since the 1970s brings together experts from the USA, the UK, and Spain. The essays cover the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, and theater from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The chapters chart a wide range of literary periods and movements and consider the influences of film and new media on modern Spanish literature.
The work "expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions such as Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria." Includes essays, such as, "Modernity’s Labors in Latin America: The Cultural Work of Cuba’s Avant-Gardes," and "The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American Modernismo: Darío’s Bourgeois King."
Oxford Handbook of ModernismsSee chapter: "Hispanic Literature and Modernism."
Available format: online and print. The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms positions literary modernisms and the modernist arts with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational settings. The work covers themes of modernist studies research on the variety of cultural, aesthetic, and geographical factors inherent to the creation of modernism.