Quick Lookups
Dictionnaire Universel des Littératures
Ref PN41 .D489 1994
A multi-volume work covering world literature.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Ref PN81 .J554 2005
A guide to the intellectual traditions of literary theory. It includes articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
European Writers
Ref PN501 .E9 1983
Essays on author’s life, times, and works. Includes bibliographies.
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
Ref PN771 .E5 1999
Biographical and critical articles that include bibliographical references of works by and about authors.
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Ref PN1021 .N39 1993
"Provides surveys of 106 national poetries; descriptions of poetic forms and genres...detailed explanations of the devices of prosody and rhetoric; and overviews of all major schools of poetry ancient and modern, Western and Eastern...provides balanced and comprehensive accounts of the major movements and issues in criticism and literary theory."