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EXAMPLES of Reference Sources
GENERAL RESOURCES
Literature Resource Center
Includes biographies,
bibliographies, critical essays, work overviews, author-related
websites, and timeline events. Information is taken selectively from
Thomson Gale’s three author databases: Contemporary Authors Online,
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary
Biography Online.
Cambridge Histories Online
Contains over 270 volumes of works published by Cambridge University Press since 1960.
Oxford Reference Online
Contains
over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
LANGUAGE-DICTIONARIES
Dicionario Universal Lingua Portuguesa (PC5327 .D58 2002 REF Pratt)
Larousse Concise Dictionary Portuguese English - English Portuguese (PC5333 . L36 2003 REF Pratt)
The New Appleton Dictionary of the English and Portuguese Languages (PC5333 .H6 1967 REF Pratt)
Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (PQ7081 .A1 C35 1996 v.3 Stacks Pratt; also in Cambridge Histories Online)
Companion to Latin American Literature (PQ7081 .H353 2007 Stacks Pratt)
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature - E-Book
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Online Version ; F1406 .E53 2008 REF Pratt)
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900-2003 (E-Book ; PQ7081 .A1 E85 2004 (REF Pratt)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (PN41 .E487 1998 REF Pratt)
Handbook of Latin American Literature (PQ7081 .A1 H36 1987 REF Pratt)
Literary Cultures of Latin America : a Comparative History (PQ7081 .A1 L525 2004 REF Pratt)
HISTORY RESOURCES
Great Lives from History - The 19th Century, 1801-1900 (CT119 .G69 2007 REF Pratt)
COUNTRY RESOURCES
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (DT14 .A37435 1999 REF Pratt)
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean (F1406 .C36 1992 REF Pratt)
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