
SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE |
The library's collections in the previously mentioned areas also support interdisciplinary Centers, Programs and/or Institutes at Dartmouth College, including Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, Liberal Studies, Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences as well as the Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Dartmouth Institute of European Studies. Moreover materials collected under the framework of this policy, support some courses and faculty research in the departments of history, religion, government, geography, anthropology, philosophy, film studies and drama.
Dartmouth College is member of some associations and consortia to identify and develop strategies, to collect, acquire and provide access within United States whose goals are toprovide resources in areas covered by this policy and to develop and coordinate formal collection development agreements among research university libraries. These are:
The Latin America North East Libraries Consortium (LANE);
Association of Research Libraries--Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
Western European Studies Section (WESS) - Iberian Studies
In May of 1979, the faculty of Romance Languages, at that time one of the largest departments on campus, submitted a recommendation to the Dartmouth Arts and Sciences faculty for the creation of two separate Departments. That recommendation was approved, and in the summer of 1979, Spanish and Portuguese came into existence as a separate department in the Humanities Division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is fair to say that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is a comparatively young department, with a long and distinguished history at Dartmouth.
* Section taken from the Spanish and Portuguese Department 2000 Report
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers four types of programs in Spanish to students (a major in Spanish, a major in Romance Languages, a modified major, and a minor). The major offers four options of study: Hispanic Literature; Language, Culture and Society; Latino Studies, and Iberian Studies. The emphasis of Hispanic literature is on the period from 1500 to the present. Earlier masterpieces are read in modernized versions. The Latino Studies option concentrates on Latin American and Spanish writers in the United States. The Department also offers 4 programs abroad (Barcelona, Madrid, Puebla and Buenos Aires).
Masters students pursuing a Master of Arts Liberal Program or a Master of Arts Program in Comparative Literature are required to take masters courses organized in the Spanish Department. Students pursuing a major or a minor in Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies or in Women's Studies may be required to take specific courses offered by the department as part of their programs.
In the department there are 23 Spanish faculty members (8 professors and associate professors, 6 assistant professors, 6 senior lecturers and lecturers, 2 visiting faculty and 1 emeritus faculty). Typically the advanced courses center around the specializations of the faculty and cover a broad spectrum of areas. Since the beginning of the 90s, the main and diverse tendencies in New Historicism studies and especially in comparative cultural studies are affecting all literary studies. Spanish Literary studies is not the exception to this rule and it is becoming a more interdisciplinary field. New faculty arrives to Dartmouth who work in areas beyond literature. Today, film, sociology, anthropology, cultural history, feminism, etc. are fields which are completely interrelated in the intellectual activity of most Spanish faculty members. Thus, support of faculty research requires a broad understanding of what Hispanism means in the 21st century.
| Spanish Languages and Philology | PC 4001-4977 | Library of Congress |
| 460-468.999 | Dewey | |
| Galician Languages and Philology | PC 5411-5414 | Library of Congress |
| Catalan Languages and Philology | PC 3801-3899 | Library of Congress |
| 449.9-449.99 | Dewey | |
| Basque Languages and Philology | PH 50001-5259 | Library of Congress |
| Spanish Literatures (Spain & Spanish American) | PQ 6001-8999 | Library of Congress |
| 860-868.9 and 897-898.99 | Dewey | |
| Galician Literatures | PQ 9450-9469.2 | Library of Congress |
| 869.908-869.98 | Dewey | |
| Catalan Literatures | PQ 9900-9976 | Library of Congress |
| 849.9-849.999 | Dewey | |
| Basque Literatures | PH 5280-5490 | Library of Congress |
General literary theory and criticism are classed in PN. Relevant materials in support of the program are also found in the appropriate sections of history, geography, sociology, anthropology, music, art, and bibliography
Two full major collections catalogued into the DCIS (Dartmouth College Information System) are located in Special Collections:
The Quixote Collection is "An extensive collection of nearly two thousand volumes consisting of editions of Miguel Cervantes Saavedra' Don Quixote de la Mancha was acquired in 1963 by a gift of Norman Frederic Page, 1927. This comprehensive gathering of Quixotes includes not only Spanish imprints of the work but also translations in some sixteen languages. The earliest imprint in the collection is a Spanish text of the first Brussels edition part one printed by Roger Velpius in 1607 and part two by Huberto Antonio in 1616…". **
The Bryant Spanish Collection consists of almost 3,000 volumes from the William L. Bryant Foundation. This collection covers a broad historical period from the 16th to the 20th (222 titles were published before1700) and a broad list of topics as well. The collection catalog listed the titles in seventy different categories; There is an emphasis on regional material, archaeology, relations between Spain and her neighbors (France, Portugal, Italy), Spain's former African possessions, the Arabic culture, philology, art, travel, Basque culture, Gypsies and many other aspects of Spanish Culture.
The Spanish plays collection--located in the Tower Room--is another major collection currently in process of being included into the DCIS. In 1929 the College acquired a collection of about 10,000 Spanish plays from a Madrid bookseller, Garcia Rico & Cia,. By 1931 another 10,000 plays were collected and delivered to the library. This large collection covers a comprehensive collection of plays, written by well-known and obscure authors, published in Spain between 1800 to 1930 and, including theatrical productions of every type, such as, monologues, parodies, farces, zarzuelas, and a large number of short works belongings to the popular dramatic genre, the so-called "genero chico". ***
** Taken from The Brief Guide to Printed Books in Special Collections. Dartmouth College Library 1995.
*** The only narrative found about how Dartmouth College gathered this collection is an article published in Dartmouth Library Bulletin, Vol 1, No 1 April 1931.
In the near future, the library aims to develop an electronic subject guide to other resources found on the Internet, of interest principally to the Spanish and Portuguese Department, including links to areas of study covered by this policy such as:
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
The Digital Library Miguel de Cervantes will offer a bibliographical collection of 30,000 works full text among other resources.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
http://cervantesvirtual.com/index.shtml
Comparative Literature Program
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~complit/
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanish/
Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hri/
Latin American, Latino& Caribbean Studies
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lalacs/
Latin American Network Information Center
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Latin America North East Libraries Consortium (LANE)
http://www.nypl.org/research/LANE/index.htm
Liberal Studies
http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/mals/
Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/salalmhome.html
Western European Studies Section (WESS) - Iberian Studies
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/index.html
Women's Studies
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wstudies/
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