4. Research Guides, Bibliographies, and Guides to Literary Theory
This short list represents only a few of the many titles you might find useful. Harner's Literary Research Guide below will lead to others. In Loker Reading Room, other guides and bibliographies are available in the Literature section. (RR 3000 and following)
Research Guides and Bibliographies
Guides to Literary Theory
Research Guides and Bibliographies
Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies / James
L. Harner.4th ed.New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
Very helpful and well organized with critical annotations, a useful guide for any literary researcher.
Child Memorial Ch M 1001
Widener RR 3101.10.5
Altick, Richard Daniel, 1915- The
art of literary research /
Richard D. Altick and John J. Fenstermaker.
4th ed. New York : Norton, c1993. xii, 353 p. ; 22 cm.
Lamont PR56 .A68 1993
Widener WID-LC PR56 .A68 1993
Harmon, William, 1938- A handbook to literature / William Harmon. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2006.
Easily consulted and broad in scope, in dictionary form, with genres,
periods, names, groups, movements, types and a chronology included.
Widener RR 3005.26
The Cambridge guide to literature in English. 3rd ed. / edited by Dominic Head. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
American, Canadian, Irish, Australian, Indian, Caribbean, African writers
and works are included, as are journals, terms, genres.
Widener RR 3108.12
Guide to American literature and its backgrounds since 1890
[by] Howard Mumford Jones and Richard M. Ludwig.
4th ed., rev. and enl.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972.
Widener RR3121.10.5
Child Memorial Ch M 2519.9
Bibliography
of American Literature
Widener RR 3122.2.3
The
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature /
edited by George Watson. Cambridge [Eng.] : University
Press, 1969-1977. 5 v.
Widener | RR3102.3.5
Houghton | Reading Room | HRR 291.6
Widener | 10441.210.12
Child Memorial | ChM 1003.10.5
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | Z2011 .N45
Lamont | REF.ROOM | PR83.Z99 C33x
Quad Library | Reference | PR83.Z99 C33x
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature /
edited by F.W. Bateson. New York : Macmillan ;
Cambridge, Eng. : University Press, 1941-1957. 5 v. ;
25 cm.
Child Memorial Ch M 1003.10
Widener 10441.210
Widener RR3102.2
Guides to Literary Theory
The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory
/ edited by Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
Widener: RR 3005.31.15
"Provides extensive coverage of related and contextual discourses, as well as critical overviews of the work of major figures responsible…for the development of those discourses in the now-related areas of philosophy, poetics, politics, aesthetics, linguistics and psychoanalysis." Three-part arrangement of the contents with collections of articles on Critical Discourse in Europe, Theories and Practice of Criticism in North America and Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland,Scotland and Wales. Glossary of terms.
[Published in the U.S. as:
The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory / general editor,
Julian Wolfreys ; editorial associates, Ruth Robbins, Kenneth Womack ;
editorial assistants, Kara Kalenius ... [et al.]. New York : Continuum,
2002.
Widener: WID-LC PN94 .C695 2002
New Princeton Guide to Poetry and Poetics
A very useful source for theory and for literary studies, generally.
It is in print and is included in Literature Online’s Reference
section. From the main page, select Search Criticism
and Reference,
then highlight Reference from the search screen to see
the individual sources and search this or other literary reference tools
there. Also in print.
Widener RR3603.5.2
The
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism / edited
by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1994.
Widener RR3005.31.13
Lamont REF.ROOM PN81.Z99 J64 1994x
Lamont PN81.Z99 J64 1994x
Includes contributions from literary theorists, philosophers, political theorists, anthropologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts. Articles on postmodernism, postcolonial cultural studies and individual authors and theorists; international in scope. Useful entries on types of theory and criticism, such French (and others) theory and criticism, feminist theory and criticism, etc.
Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford
guide /edited by Patricia Waugh.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Widener WID-LC PN86 .L555 2006
Literary theory, an anthology
/ edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell,
1998.
Lamont PN45 .L512 1998
Quad Library RESERVES PN45 .L512 1998
Widener WID-LC PN45 .L512 1998
Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory / J.A.
Cuddon
Widener: RR 3005.31.9
A glossary of contemporary literary theory/ Jeremy Hawthorn.
Lamont PN44.5 .H37 2000x
Widener RR 3005.31.11