Edited by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 81 .54 1994]
[Available online for UofT use.]
This large single-volume encyclopedia covers theorists, movements, terms and critics. Entries are individually authored and each contains a bibliography.

Edited by Irena R. Makaryk. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1993.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 81 .E63 1993]
Divided into the three sections indicated by its title, this large single-volume encyclopedia consists of individually authored entries.

By Wendell V. Harris. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 41 .H36 1992]
71 entries are discussed using short essay-length format. Contrary to its title, this is more of a single-volume encyclopedia than a dictionary. Each entry contains a bibliography.

Edited by Paul Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 41 .E487 1998]
A two-volume work that includes detailed entries on the world's novels and novelists, as well as ssues and ideas of literature.

Edited by Paul Bouissac. Oxford: University Press, 1998.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - P 99 .E64 1998]

Signed articles with bibliographies and cross-references.

By Jeremy Hawthorne. London: Arnold, 2000.
[Victoria Pratt - PN 44.5 .H37 2000]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 44.5 .H37 1998]

Edited by Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - BH 39 .C62 1995]
Short-essay format with a focus on 'contemporary' as opposed to 'modern' criticism.

By Leonard Orr. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
[Robarts Reference - PN 98 .S6O77 1991]
Includes entries pertaining to Anglo-American literary theory as well as Continental.

By Bernard Marie Dupriez. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 172 D813 1991]
Translated from the French, contains interesting definitions of terms from Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Philology.

Edited by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
[Victoria Pratt - PN 81 .C6 1995]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 81 .C84 1990]
High quality, individually written, essay-length entries for 22 core terms in literary study.

By Richard A. Lanham. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
[Robarts - PE 1445 .A2L3 1991]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PE 1445 .A2L3 1968]
Clear and well illustrated coverage of quite technical terms.

By M. H. Abrams. Boston: Thomson, Wadsworth, 2005.
[Victoria Pratt - PN 41 .A184 2005]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 41 .A184 1993]
A scholarly work that is, nonetheless, accessible to those less well versed in the field.

By J. A. Cuddon. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
[Robarts - PN 41 .C83 1991]
Contains more terms than Abrams work but each entry is less detailed.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
[Robarts Reference - PN 41 .B26 2001]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PN 41 .C67 1990]
Contains a succinct explanation for 1,000 terms.

This is the most significant source for current articles on this topic. "The database indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering 1963 to the present, the MLA International Bibliography includes 1.3 million citations from over 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings."

In addition to being a major source on information in the area of Literary and Cultural Theory and Criticism, "Philosopher's Index" is the primary source for information in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. It is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion, and science.

Emphasizing the humanities and social sciences, "Essay and General Literature Index" provides access to nearly 45,000 English-language essays in 3,500 collections and anthologies. In addition to 'Literature' and 'Literary Theory,' subjects covered include history, economics, psychology, religion, political science, folklore, film, music, and drama.

"A fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources."

By M. M. Bakhtin, edited by Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 3331 .B2513]
Includes an 11 page glossary of terms coined, or commonly used, by Bakhtin.

By Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PG 2947 .B3T613 1984]
An excellent introduction to Bakhtin's work.

By David Lodge. London: Routledge, 1990.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PG 2947 .B3L63 1990]
Demonstrates how Bakhtin's ideas can be used by the literary critic.

By Raymond Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - PE 1580 .W58]
Williams, himself one of the most important figures in Cultural Studies, examines the origins and historical changes in key terms in the vocabulary of culture and society.

Edited by Ann Gray and Jim McGuigan. 2nd Edition. London: E. Arnold, 1993.
[Trinity - CB 430 .S78 1997]
A collection of key texts in Cultural Studies. Includes editorial commentary and suggestions for further reading.

Edited by Antony Easthope and Kate McGowan. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 81 .C83 1992]
Another collection of seminal works.

By Christopher Norris. London: Routledge, 1991.
[Victoria Pratt - PN 98 .D43N6 2002]
A good introduction to this school.

Howard Felperin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
[Robarts - PN 94 .F45 1985]

Edited by Hugh J. Silverman. London: Routledge, 1989.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - B 2430 .D484D478 1989]
This philosophical account includes a bibliography of works by and about Derrida.

Edited by Sonya Andermahr, Terry Lovell, and Carol Wolkowitz. New York: Arnold, 2000.
[Robarts - HQ 1190 .A53 2000]

Includes a chronology of opinion, biographical sketches of important figures, statistics, techniques, organizations, glossary, index, and a select bibliography.

By Maggie Humm. New York: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.
[Robarts - HQ 1115 .H86 1995]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - HQ 1115 .H86 1990]

Edited by Mary Eagleton. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 98 .W64F44 1996]
An essential collection of works.

"gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 7500 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature."

By Katie Wales. 2nd Edition. New York: Longman, 2001.
[Robarts Reference - P 301.W35 2001]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - P 301 .W35 1990]
Contains many specialist terms from Linguistics and Stylistics.

By R.L. Trask. London: Routledge, 1993.
[Robarts Reference - P 152 .T7 1993]

Edited by Jean Jacques Weber. London: Arnold, 1996.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - P 301 .S879 1996X]
A collection of classic writings in the field.

Edited and introduced by Francis Mulhern. London: Longman, 1992.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 98 .C6C66 1992]
Includes a chronology of opinion, biographical sketches of important figures, statistics, techniques, organizations, glossary, index, and a select bibliography.

Edited by Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 98 .C6M28 1996]
A collection of editorial columns and political cartoons concerning abortion, with subject and author access.

By Philip Goldstein. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1990.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 98 .C6G6 1990]
A source book of sociological, philosophical, religious, and legal aspects of the issue.

By James Watson and Anne Hill. 7th edition. London : Hodder Arnold, 2006.
[Robarts Reference - P 87.5 .W3 2006]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - P 87.5 .W3 2006]

Edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch. 3rd edition. New York: Arnold, 2000.
[Robarts Reference - HM 258 .M273 2000]
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - HM 258 .M185 1996]
An excellent introduction to the subject.

Edited and introduced by Paul Marris and Sue Thornham. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - P 91.3 .M386 1999]

Edited by Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
[Victoria Pratt - PN 56 .M54M6 1991]
A good starting point for includes a chronology of opinion, biographical sketches of important figures, statistics, techniques, organizations, glossary, index, and a select bibliography.

By Patricia Waugh. London: Edward Arnold, 1993.
[Trinity - PR 478 .P67W38 1993]
Examines some of the key ideas of these schools and their implications for textual analysis.

By Gerald Prince. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003
[Robarts - P302.7 .P75 2003]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - P 302.7 .P75 1989]
Short, yet informative entries. Detailed and comprehensive.

By Michael J. Toolan. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 2001.
[Robarts - P 302.7 .T66 2001]
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - P 302.7 .T66 1988]
A good introductory text.

Edited by Kiernan Ryan. London: Arnold, 1996.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 81 .N4317 1996]
Includes good introductory material on the subject and its many facets.

By Scott Wilson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
[Robarts - PR 428 .P6W55 1995X]

By Jeremy Hawthorne. London: Arnold, 1996.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - HQ 767.5 .N7 A26 1996]

Edited by Roger D. Sell. London: Routledge, 1991.
[Robarts - P 302.5 .L58 1991]

By William Ray. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1984. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1990.
[Robarts - PN 81 .R348 1984]

By Maurice Natanson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 49 .N35 1998]
This work is particularly valuable for its clarification of concepts and terms that frequently emerge in the phenomenology of literature. Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's unique power to show how fiction can highlight aspects of experience that are normally left unexamined. Drawing upon his philosophical predecessors Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schutz, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Natanson paves his own way with stories and examples that themselves bear witness to how phenomenology occurs in literature.

Edited by Padmini Mongia. London: Arnold, 1996.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 771 .C595 1996]
Includes many essays and extracts.

Edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 2006.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PR 9080 .P57 2006]
Includes more essays and extracts than the title listed above but some of these are abridged.

pages 14-48. By Igor Chernov, et al.; translated and edited by L.M. O'Toole and Ann Shukman. Oxford: Holdan Books, 1977.
[Robarts - PG 3026 .F6F6]

By M. M. Bakhtin, P.N. Medvedev; translated by Albert J. Wehrle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - PN 98 .F6M413 1991]
A contemporary critique of Russian Formalism.

By Marcel Danesi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - P 87.5 .D36 2000]
This compact volume includes brief entries for the major terms in semiotics.

Vincent M. Colapietro. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - P 99 .C569 1993]
Useful for ready reference but the entries are quite short.

By Richard Harland. London: Methuen, 1987. [St Michael's 2nd Floor - B 841.4 .H37 1987]
Contains useful discussions about many of the central terms in both schools.

Edited by Michael Lane. London: Cape, 1970.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - B 841.4 .L3]

[Available online for free.]
Provides links to websites on critical theorists, poets, dramaturges, novelists, and literary periods.

[Available online for free.]
A source of links to all things about literary theory including general resources, listservs, conferences, journals.

[Available online for free.]
Quick definitions of major theories with bibliographies for further research compiled by a professor of English at Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI.

[Available online for free.]
A zany site that includes information about theories and theorists.

[Available online for free.]
An excellent introductory site for the uninitiated.