The Library holds a combination of English-language commentary about Spanish literature, English translations of Spanish literature, and Spanish-language materials. Search Discover@UMSL for books of interest (see the Books page of this guide). Or, you may wish to browse the following sections:
Provides an overview of modern Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Introduces a general readership to the ways in which Spanish literature has been read in and outside Spain, explaining misconceptions, outlining the insights of recent scholarship, and suggesting new readings.
Draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
A critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles.
Presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present.
Literary Criticism Online is an extensive compilation of scholarly and popular commentary drawn from an extensive collection of broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. UMSL has access to the following sections: Contemporary Literary Criticism - [Volume 1 (1973) - present], Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism [Volume 1 (1981) - 259 (2012)] , and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism - [Volume 1 (1978) - present].
Indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covers over 3,000 journals and series, books, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies.
