Subject Guides: Literary Theory & Criticism: Reference

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks

Critical Experience : Literary Reading, Writing, and Criticism - Humanities Reference PN 83 .C74x 1994
David Cowles, editor ; Mike Austin ... [et al.] 2nd ed. Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt, c1994.
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Critical Survey of Literary Theory - Humanities Reference PN 45 .C74 1987
Edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1987.
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Dictionary of Critical Theory
Ian Buchanan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Dictionary of Critical Theory - Humanities Reference PN 98 .S6O77 1991
Leonard Orr. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory - Humanities Reference PN 98 .W64 E53
Editor, Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. New York : Garland, 1997.
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Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory - Humanities Reference PN 44.5 .H37 2000
Jeremy Hawthorn. 4th ed. London ; New York : Arnold, 2000.
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Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature - Humanities Reference PN 81 .G8 2005
Wilfred L. Guerin ... [et al.]. 4th ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Harper Handbook to Literature - Humanities Reference PN 41 .F75 1997
Northrop Frye ... [et al.]. 2nd [rev.] ed. New York : Longman, c1997.
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Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale) This link opens in a new window

Literary Dictionaries

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Available in print at Humanities Reference PN 451 .A6
DLB is an especially well rounded, well illustrated source, with a list of the author's primary works, biography, analysis and criticism, photographs and facsimiles, and a list of the best secondary sources. Also available electronically through Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale).

Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
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he best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. Now available in a new, fully updated and expanded edition, it offers readers increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction.

It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. New to this fully revised edition are recommended entry-level web links. Boasting over 1,200 entries, it is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language.
A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th ed. - HUM REF PN 41 .A184 2009
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M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham., Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2009.
Dictionary of Literary Symbols
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Michael Ferber editor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs - Humanities Reference PN 43 .D48 1988
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Jean-Charles Seigneuret, editor ... [et al.]. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
Glossary of Poetic Terms
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From Poetry Foundation - definitions and examples given.

Bibliographies

Literary Criticism : Plato Through Johnson - Humanities Reference PN 81 .X1 H35
Compiled by Vernon Hall. New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.
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Contemporary Critical Theory : a Selective Bibliography - Humanities Reference PN 81 .X1 M37 1993
Donald G. Marshall. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
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Recent Work in Critical Theory, 1989-1995 : an Annotated Bibliography - Humanities Reference PN 81 .X1 R36 1996
Compiled by William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
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