Reference Books - Print
Reference sources can help you find background information about an author or an author's literary works. They can also help you to define literary terms and theories that are new to you. Many provide a bibliography of further resources on the topics they cover. The following books are a short selection of the reference sources about literary criticism available in the reference section of Glendale College Library collection.
African American Literary Criticism by Call Number: 810.9896073 A258ISBN: 0805716831Publication Date: 1999-08-01This unique anthology assembles over 200 years of critical thought on African-American literature, with contributions spanning from Philis Wheatley to Alexis Pate.
African Literature and Its Times by Call Number: 809.896 M913aISBN: 0787637270Publication Date: 2000-06-16This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Africa. Organized by title, it discusses 50 works through detailed essays.
Asian American Literature by Call Number: 810.9895 A832ISBN: 0787602965Publication Date: 1998-10-01This reference guide to Asian writers covers authors whose works have been translated into the English language. Each author entry includes full biographical information, as well as excerpts from literary criticism and sources for further study.
The Atlas of Literature by Call Number: 809 A881ISBN: 1899883681Publication Date: 1996-09-01Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
A Handbook to Literature by Call Number: 803 H288h, 2003ISBN: 0130979988Publication Date: 2002-07-10The "definitive," contemporary reference on literature and literary criticism in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. Covers a wide range of terms, most centered in literature, but extending into other areas, such as film, radio, TV, printing, linguistics and literary theory, music, graphic arts, classical studies, and computing and information science terms. For anyone interested in literature and literary criticism.
Reference Sources -- Electronic
A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms by ISBN: 9780816062430Publication Date: 2006-08-01In clear, nontechnical language, this dictionary of more than 1,000 literary terms and themes takes an expanded view of the term "literary." This book gives readers not only a traditional literary vocabulary, but also the knowledge of related theoretical, historical, and cultural terms they need in the interdisciplinary world of contemporary literary studies.
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 9781849725255Publication Date: 2010-03-09
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 0226472035Publication Date: 1995-06-15
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 9781558623736Publication Date: 1998-12-11
Literary Theories : A Reader and Guide by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 9780748612130Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Novel Beginnings : Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 0300128339Publication Date: 2006-05-01- A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 9780816062430Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism by Call Number: Electronic ResourceISBN: 1569955972Publication Date: 2014-10-14
