LITERARY DICTIONARIES AND HISTORIES

Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989- . Multi-volume [in progress]. PN 86 .C27 1989.

Dictionnaire Historique, Thématique et Technique des Littératures: Littératures Française et Etrangères, Anciennes et Modernes. Paris: Larousse, 1985. 2v. Ref. PN 41 .D487 1985.
This contemporary study of literature contains sections that discuss authors, major works, characters, literary schools, and national literatures. Literary technique is outlined in sections including: literary genres, rhetoric, styles, metric, criticism, aesthetic, and literary theory. In addition, reoccurring themes in literature are discussed: de l'amour, á la revolte, de l'âne, à l'ours, de la figure de cercle, and à celle du labyrinthe ou du pont; and motifs.

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. [Also online.]
The guide consists of 226 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.