Bibliographies, Indexes, & Abstracts

Bibliographies are lists of books or other material, usually, with some sort of information about the book or item. They are most used by scholars and librarians. The library catalog is effectively a bibliography. The bibliography books list material which may not be in the AUCTR. They can give you some idea about what other people wrote on a subject. The few which follow are the most readable, and, if nothing else, will let you see what higher level scholars do. Unfortunately, the readable ones only covered literature. Fortunately, you can probably accomplish the same task, for other sub-topics, using web searches.

Bleznick, W. (1995). A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language (3rd ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. [Call Number REF Z2695.A2 B55 1995] According to its catalog description, it is a selected, annotated guide to Spanish, Spanish-American, and United States Hispanic bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and other source materials.

Rudder, S. (1975). The Literature of Spain in English Translation. New York: Ungar. [Call Number REF Z2694.T7 R83] According to a Duke University (Calvo, 2001) bibliography of bibliographies, it is the fullest bibliography of its kind, though somewhat dated. This work includes translations in periodicals and in collections as well as separately published works. It is divided by literary period, then by author. It includes an index of authors and an index to anonymous works.

Vivo, P. (1973). The Puerto Ricans: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Bowker. [Call Number both MAIN and REF Z1551.P84] This appeared worth briefly checking, just to see what other people wrote about Puerto Rico.

Indexes are similar to bibliographies except that, for what we are doing here, they list items like the articles in a magazine (journal) or newspaper, the stories in an anthology, or anything else which is itself part of some collection. There are books in the PER area which index periodicals, maybe even the ones listed on the Journals, Newspapers, & Directories page of this website. I did not look for them because you will probably use some of the methods on the Web-sites page to find the same information. An abstract is simply the short summary of something, probably the articles in a journal. You will see abstracts in the databases from the Web-sites page. I only have one index for you to look at, and it is mixed with the bibliographies.

Harvell, T. (2000). Index to Twentieth-Century Spanish Plays. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. [Call Number REF Z2694.D7 H17 2000.] Because many Spanish plays were not written in Spain or even in Spanish, and were published in collections, anthologies, or periodicals, this book directs readers to those sources, for plays written by authors from (or closely associated with) Spain in the twentieth century. Galician, Catalan, and Basque writers are included as well as Castilian Spanish. Importantly, the author includes translations into English, wherever they may be available. Users can search for plays in one of three indexes: Author, Sources, or Play Title. (This description adapted from that on Amazon.)