LITERARY DICTIONARIES

 

Dictionnaire Historique, Thématique et Technique des Littératures: Littératures Française et Etrangères, Anciennes et Modernes. Paris: Larousse, 1985. 2v. Ref. PN 41 .D487 1985.

Dictionnaire des Termes Littéraires. Paris: Champion, 2001. Ref PN 41 .L39214.

Gardes-Tamine, J., and Hubert, M.-C. Dictionnaire de Critique Littéraire. Paris: Colin, 1993. 219pp. Ref PN 44.5 .T37 1993.

French dictionary of critical terms; includes appendix of cross references.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1993. Ref PN 81 .E528 1993.

Divided into three sections, this dictionary explains theoretical approaches in the first, identifies leading scholars in the second, and defines literary terms in the third.

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994. Ref PN 81 .J546 1994. [For online version see http://www.library.nd.edu]

The guide consists of alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Bibliographies of primary and secondary sources.

Morier, Henri. Dictionnaire de Poétique et de Rhétorique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1981. Ref. PN 1021 M6 1981.

This 1,263-page dictionary provides lengthy articles on critical terms for poetry, sometimes including diagrams and tables; e.g., see the 72-page article on “métaphore.”

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993. Closed Ref PN 1021 .N39 1993.

 

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