Subject Guides: Comparative Literature: Theme, Type, Motif

Dictionaries

Dictionary of literary and thematic terms - PN 44.5 .Q56 2006 Humanities Reference
Edward Quinn. New York: Facts on File, 2006
Cambridge Companion to Allegory PN 56 .A5 C35 2010 Humanities Reference
edited by Rita Copeland and Peter T. Struck. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Dictionary of Symbols - GR 931 .C4413 1994 Humanities Reference
by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant. Translated from the French by John Buchanan-Brown. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
Dictionary of Literary Symbols - PN 56 .S9 F47 2007 Humanities Reference
Michael Ferber. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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This book draws on the work of more than 400 European authors.
Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes, and Archetypes - PN 56 .M95 D4813 1992 Humanities Reference
Edited by Pierre Brunel. Translated from the French by Wendy Allatson, Judith Hayward, and Trista Selous. London: Routledge, 1992.

Literary Criticism and Myth - PN 56 .M94 L574x 1996
edited by Robert A. Segal. New York: Garland, 1996. Essays on the relations of myth and literature.
New Critical Idiom (multivolume series)
This series includes introductory studies to topics of interest for students of literature. Press info button for titles in this area.
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Myth / Laurence Coupe. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2009. BL 304 .C68 2009.
Allegory / Jeremy Tambling. London: Routledge, 2010. PN 56 .A5 T36 2010.
The Unconscious / Antony Easthope. London: Routledge, 1999. BF 315 .E27 1999.
Subjectivity / Donald E. Hall. London: Routledge, 2004. PN 56 .S46 H35 2004.

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