Your search for information on Jorge Luis Borges and his work can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Use the Library Catalog to find books by and about Jorge Luis Borges and his work. You can search by author, title, subject, or keyword. For books by Borges, choose Author Search. Find biographical and critical material by doing a Subject Search for:

Listed below are some books that may be useful in your research. Literary Reference Books contain biographical and critical information on authors and their work. The online database GaleNet Literature Resource Center can also be used for this purpose.

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online indexes listed below. They are available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html . Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books. The Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

EbscoHost

Keyword searches:

Jorge Luis Borges

Borges, Jorge Luis

magic realism

Project MUSE

Keyword Searches:

Jorge Luis Borges

Borges, Jorge Luis

magic realism

GaleNet Literature Resource Center

Author Search: Borges, Jorge Luis

Title Search: Title of a particular work by Borges

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Internet Public Library – Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

The Borges Center – The University of Iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/borges/

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