These sources offer great background information on literary genres or eras in addition to definitions of literary terms and biographical information on authors or key literary figures:
Contains over 30 Oxford literature reference titles, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, and more.
Includes Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Reference Guide to World Literature, Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature, UXL Graphic Novelists, and more.
Includes 1,200 terms on drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as bibliographies of recommended reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms.
A comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. Includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
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