English Subject Guide: Literary & Cultural Theory, Criticism & Movements

Except where indicated, books listed on this page are located in the Reference Collection, main floor. 

Buchanan, Ian. A Dictionary of Critical Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. B 809.3 .B83 2010

* Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields.  Detroit: Gale,  1962 - 2005.  PN 451 C76 Basement Reference

* Contemporary Literary Criticism.  Detroit: Gale, 1973 - .  Volume 325 (2012) to present accessible online via Literature Criticism Online; older volumes are available in print in the library (PN 771 C59, Basement Reference)

Greene, Roland, ed. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. PN 1021 .N39 2012

Groden, Michael, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, eds.  The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.  PN 81 .J554 2005

Hawthorn, Jeremy.  A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory.  4th ed.  London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.  PN 44.5 .H37 2000

Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, eds.  Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary.  Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2000.  PN 597 T94 2000

Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, ed.  Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory.  New York: Garland, 1997.  PN 98 .W64 E53 1997

Murray, Chris, ed.  Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism.  2 vols.  London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c1999.  PN 75 .E53 E53 1999

Poplawski, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. PN 56 .M54 E53 2003

Ryan, Michael, ed. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. 3 vols. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, c2011. PN 81 .E635 2011