Biographical Information

Literature Resource Center. Biographical and critical information.
European Writers. REF PN501.E9 1983. Use the Index.
The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. REF PQ 6006.O93.
Spanish Women Writers. REF PQ 6055.S63 1993.

The Novel as a Genre

Becoming and consumption : the contemporary Spanish novel. PQ6055 .B67 2007    

Crossfire : philosophy and the novel in Spain, 1900-1934. PQ6144 .J58 1993 

More books like this are listed in Annie under the subject heading:

Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Encyclopedia of the Novel. REF PN41 .E53 1998 v.1-2.

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Online in Annie

The book of literary terms : the genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary criticism, and scholarship. REF PN44.5 .T87 1999

Critical works about specific authors

Camilo José Cela: General call number in the stacks is PQ6605.E44 on level 3. Browse here, too, for more titles. Also check Annie and WorldCat for new titles.
Camilo José Cela /D. W. McPheeters. PQ6605.E44 Z77 
Social disintegration in three novels by Camilo José Cela / Roger D. Tinnell. PQ6605.E44 Z92 2000 
Understanding Camilo José Cela / Lucile C. Charlebois . PQ6605.E44 Z625 1998 
La novelística de Camilo José Cela / Paul Ilie. PQ6605.E44 Z55 
Camilo José Cela revisited : the later novels / Janet Pérez. PQ6605.E44 Z783 2000 
Camilo José Cela / Ignaico Ruiz Quintano. PQ6605.E44 Z878 1992 

Dulce Chacon:

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Carmen Martín Gaite: General call number in the stacks is PQ6623.A7657 on level 3. Browse here, too, for more titles. Also check Annie and WorldCat for new titles.

Carmen Martín Gaite : in search of conversation. DVD PQ6623.A7657 Z645 2003   
Childhood and adolescence in the fictional narratives of Carmen Martín Gaite / Sandra Elve Clevenger. PQ6623.A7657 Z57 1990 
Silence in Carmen Martin Gaite's Entre visillos, El cuarto de atras, and Nubosidad variable / Adrián M. García. 
PQ6623.A7657 Z662 2000 
From fiction to metafiction : essays in honor of Carmen Martin-Gaite / Mirella Servodidio and Marcia L. Welles, editors. PQ6623.A7657 Z66 1983 
"Writing from Within, with her Own Voice: Carmen Martin Gaite (1925-)", in Spanish women's writing, 1849-1996.
PQ6055 .D38 1998 
Feminine concerns in contemporary Spanish fiction by women / PQ6144 .F36 1988 

Benito Peréz Galdós:  General call number in the stacks is PQ6555.Z5 on level 3. You should browse the shelves, where there are many more titles on Galdos. Also check Annie and WorldCat for new titles.
Benito Peréz Galdós./ Walter T. Pattison.  PQ6555.Z5 P28 (level 3)
The reframing of realism : Galdós and the discourses of the nineteenth-century Spanish novel / Hazel Gold. PQ6555.Z5 G65 1993 
Galdós : the early historical novels / Brian J. Dendle . PQ6555.E463 D38 1986 
The novels of Pérez Galdós; the concept of life as dynamic process / Eoff, Sherman Hinkle. PQ6555.Z5 E6 
Ambiguous angels : gender in the novels of Galdós / Catherine Jagoe.  PQ6555.Z5 J34 1994 
Galdós studies / edited by J. E. Varey. PQ6555.Z5 V3 

Miguel de Unamuno: General call numbers in the stacks are PQ6639.N3 on level 3, and B4568.U54 on level 4. Browse here, too, for more titles. Also check Annie and WorldCat for new titles.
Miguel de Unamuno / Martin Nozick. PQ6639.N3 Z7935 
Miguel de Unamuno / Julián Marías ; translated.  PQ6639.N3 Z792 1966 
Reason aflame; Unamuno and the heroic will / Ouimette, Victor . B4568.U54 O9 1974 
Unamuno; an existential view of self and society / Paul Ilie.   B4568.U54 I4 
"'Knight-Errantry of the Spirit': Unamuno's Poetry and Prose", in Christianity and modern European literature.
PN49 .M865 1997 
Intra-historia in Miguel de Unamuno's novels : a continual presence / Peggy W. Watson. PQ6639.N3 Z89 1993 
Crossfire : philosophy and the novel in Spain, 1900-1934 / Roberta Johnson . PQ6144 .J58 1993 

Critical Sources and Background Readings
MLA Bibliography. Crucial research tool for research in modern languages and literatures. The MLA indexes journal articles, book articles, and dissertations. Read carefully the instructions on the introductory page on how to perform a search. Come and see me (prof. Merrill) at the library if you need help.

Humanities Research Guide. Listing of all periodical databases in the humanities.

Manual de literatura española.  REF PQ6032 .P4 v. 7 (Epoca del Realismo)
Hispanic Literature Criticism. 2 vols. REF PQ 6039.H5 1994
Diccionario de literatura española.  PQ6006 .D5 1972 (level 3)
Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula / edited by Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, and Janet Pérez. 2 vols. REF PN849.S6 D54 1993
Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture.  REF DP233.5 .E63 1999 
The Cambridge companion to modern Spanish culture.   DP48 .C233 1999 (level 4)
Encyclopedia of the novel. REF PN41 .E53 1998 v.1-2.
The genius of Spain and other essays on Spanish contemporary literature.  PQ6072 .M3 (level 3)
 

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