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[edit] Reference Sources

Critical analyses of literature and biographies of authors.

Full-text online dictionary with quotations.

Catalog of books, web resources, and other materials worldwide.

Publication information on books in print and some out of print, with some reviews. Includes titles from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.; also videos and audiocassettes from the U.S.


Unless otherwise noted, all print sources are located in the Reference Stacks on the first floor of the library.

[edit] Guides

  • Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975

PS153 .N5 A4

  • Form and Style: Research Papers, Reports, Theses

LB2369 .C3 1997

  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

PN81 .J554 1994

  • Literary Research Guide

PR83 .H34 1998

  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

Copies in Reference Stacks on First Floor and Circulating Collection on Third Floor - LB2369 .G53 2003

See also MLA Citation Style Sheet

  • Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms

PN44.5 .D4 1974b

  • A Reference Guide for English Studies

PR56 .M37 1990

  • Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Literature

PR85 .R4 1985

  • Writer's Market

Current edition in Reference Stacks on First Floor - PN161 .W83

Previous edition in Circulating Collection on Lower Level - PN161 .W83

[edit] Encyclopedias/Indexes

  • Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare

PR2892 .S6

  • Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased…

PR19 .A55

  • Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature

PS21 .B4 1991

  • Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

PN43 .B65 1999

  • Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies

PN1022 .H39 2002

  • Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature

PR149 .B5 D53 1992

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography

PS21 .D5

Also Available Online in Literature Resource Center

  • Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

PR9080 .A52 E53 1994

  • Encyclopedia of the Novel

PN41 .E487 1998

  • Literary History of the United States

PS88 .L522 1974

  • MLA Bibliography

1921-1955 and 1956-1963 - Abstracts and Indexes - shelved following the bound journals on the third floor

1963 to the present availible online through MLA Bibliography

  • New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

PR83 .N4

  • New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

PN1021 .N39 1993

  • Oxford Companion to English Literature

PR19 .D73 1995

  • Oxford Companion to American Literature

PS21 .H3 1995

[edit] Literary Criticism

  • Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors Through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

PR83 .M73 1966

  • Poetry Criticism

PN1010 .P499

  • Poetry Explication

PR502 .K8 1980

  • Guide to American Poetry Explication

PS306 .G9 1989

[edit] Film

  • Film Encyclopedia

PN1993.45 .K34 1998

  • Motion Picture Guide

PN1995 .N3462

  • New York Times Film Reviews

PN1995 .N4

  • Variety Film Reviews

PN1995 .V34


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