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Offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and work, his place in Renaissance culture, and the role of Don Quixote in the formation of the modern novel.

Offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa and others.

Analyses the history, politics, art and literature from the nineteenth century to the present and considers the heritage of pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America.

A comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Analyses the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country, and the country's literature.

The modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment.

The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 2000 comprehensive essays in over 200 volumes on major authors, periods and genres worldwide.

Reference PQ 7082N7 W546 2007

Reference PQ 7081 A1 E558 2004

Reference PQ 7082 D7 E63 2003

Critical essays and selected bibliographies on 176 playwrights, poets, novelists, and journalists from the sixteenth century to the present.
Reference PQ 7081 A1L37

Reference D P99 M33 2003

Click on "Obras academicas" for access to dictionaries and grammars.
http://www.rae.es

Type in a verb to see it in all its forms.
http://www.verbix.com/languages/spanish.shtml

This site offers the ability to translate vocabulary from French, Spanish, Italian, German or Russian into English and vice versa.
http://www.wordreference.com/

Covers literatures throughout the world that are written in Spanish. "This linguistically based (rather than nationally defined) understanding of Spanish literature transcends genres, time periods, and political boundaries and recognizes the growing diversity within national borders..." This encyclopedia will also be valuable to those reading Spanish/Latin American literature in English translation.
Reference PQ 6006 W67 2011