BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES

Critical Survey of Literary Theory. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1987. 4v.
Ref PN 45 .C74 1987.

Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists. London; New York : Prentice Hall, 1995. Ref PN 74 .A2 1995.

An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. NY: Garland, 1991. 2v. Ref PN 481 .E5 1991.

European Writers. NY: Scribner, 1983-1991. 14v. Ref PN 501 .E9 1983.

Each article is approximately 15,000 words in length and devoted to a single writer; includes long bibliographies of works plus translations. A few articles treat a genre, movement, or convention. See v. 14 for the index, a list of volume contents, and a list of writers by language.

Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000. Ref PN 597 .T94 2000.

Articles on over fifty literary, critical, and theatrical movements or schools in over eighty nations. Includes reading lists and a chronology. E.g., Concrete Poetry, Cyberpunk, Magic Realism, Socialist Realism, Theater of the Absurd.

Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields. 1962- . Ref PN 771 .C761. (Also Contemporary Literary Criticism, etc. See cumulative index for specific authors.) [For online version see Literature Resource Center at http://www.library.nd.edu]

PQ 1-3999 = French and Francophone literature
PQ 4000-5000 = Italian literature
PQ 6000-9999 = Spanish-language literature