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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the definitive guide to the vast and extraordinarily rich heritage of literature written in English. It covers all the major novelists, poets and dramatists - from Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens to Conrad and to contemporary writers from all over the English-speaking world - Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray, Wole Soyinka, and Janet Frame. More than 100 specialist contributors provide detailed biographical and critical articles not only on writers and their works. Substantial coverage is also given to such literary genres as popular fiction, science fiction, detective novels, and children's classics. All literary concepts and movements are described in detail. Over 4,500 alphabetical entries, cross-referenced throughout * Includes all literature in English - British, Irish, American, Australian, African, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian and Caribbean.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780521440868Publication Date: 1993
A to Z of Women: American Women Writers
by Profiles more than 190 women, among them poets, essayists, journalists, editors, novelists, memoirists, and numerous other types of writers. This engaging resource examines the stories of women from a wide array of cultures and generations who share a love of writing. Profiles include: Judy Blume, author of young adult and children's books Erma Bombeck, humorist whose column At Wit's End explored domestic life Amy Clampitt, poet and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Patricia Cornwell, mystery writer who draws on her experience as a medical examiner for inspiration Barbara Ehrenreich, whose work explores social and economic issues in the U.S. Katherine Graham, former publisher of the Washington Post Jhumpa Lahiri, whose debut book of short stories won the Pulitzer Prize Nella Larson, novelist and winner of a Guggenheim fellowshipBobbie Ann Mason, author and literary critic Annie Proulx, who describes isolated locales in such places as Canada, New England, and Wyoming Sonia Sanchez, poet and playwright whose work promotes social and racial justice Esmeralda Santiago, memoirist who writes of her childhood in Puerto Rico and New York City Elizabeth Strout, novelist, short story writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781438150086Publication Date: 2016
Black Literature Criticism: Classic and emerging black authors since 1950
3 volumes
Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781414431741Publication Date: 2008
English Literature
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
This comprehensive guide to all British literature also includes literature in English from the colonial and postcolonial periods in Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, and New Zealand. Important authors from these areas are covered in substantive topical articles on their respective literatures. The contributors, from the UK and US, are all experts in their fields, and include: R. S. White on William Blake; W. H. New on Canadian Literature in English; Derek Brewer on Geoffrey Chaucer; Ian Ousby on Detective Fiction before 1945; David Kirby on Expatriates; Merryn Williams on Thomas Hardy; Sandie Byrne on Tony Harrison; Fred Marchant on Ted Hughes; Peter Barnes on Ben Jonson; Ian MacKillop on F. R. Leavis; Norman Kelvin on William Morris; Claire Tomalin on Samuel Pepys; and Peter Finch on Poetry since 1945.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780826414564Publication Date: 2003
A Short History of English Literature by
Contents:
1. The Fourteenth Century
2. Fifteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
3. The Early Sixteenth Century
4. Elizabethan Drama (Shakespeare and His Predecessors)
5. Jacobean Drama (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Successors)
6. Elizabethan Poetry
7. Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry
8. Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Prose
9. Milton to Dryden
10. Restoration Drama
11. Origins of the Novel
12. The Age of Swift and Pope
13. The Age of Johnson
14. The Eighteenth-Century Novel
15. The Close of the Eighteenth Century
16. Wordsworth and the Romantics
17. Scott and Contemporary Novelists
18. Victorian Poetry
19. The Victorian Novel
20. Twentieth-Century Drama
Call Number: EbookISBN: 0203137272Publication Date: 2013
Shakespeare for Students
Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars that have been selected for students at the high school or undergraduate college level. Each entry includes an introduction; a plot synopsis; a character list; a discussion of the work's principal themes; information about the style and literary devices used; a conversation about the work's historical context; and a critical overview.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781414412559Publication Date: 2007
British Writers
This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.
Call Number: PR 85 .B688 Reference (8 volumes)ISBN: 0684157985Publication Date: 1979
American Literature
Encyclopedia of American Literature
4 volumes
Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S. Baughman, Carl Rollyson, and Marshall BoswellAdvisory Board:Emory Elliott, University of California, Irvine; Wendy Martin, Harvey Mudd Graduate College; Sandra Adell, University of Wisconsin; Matthew J. Bruccoli, University of South Carolina; Richard Layman, Bruccoli Clark Layman Publishers and Manly, Inc.; and Park Bucker, University of South Carolina-SumterPraise for the print edition:Booklist/RBB Editors' Choice Reference Source...an excellent source for students...and its chronological arrangement offers a different slant. Recommended...--BooklistThe articles are well-written and provide readers with a clear understanding of the topic.--School Library JournalThe writing is clear and direct...useful...--ChoiceAn Extensive Reference That Spans the Entire Scope of American LiteratureEncyclopedia of American Literature, Third Edition is an extensive reference work that spans the entire scope of American literature, from the colonial period to the present. This updated and comprehensive encyclopedia includes entries on writers, works, literary movements, and a variety of other topics.Regionally and culturally inclusive, entries on writers describe key life events, provide thumbnail descriptions of and critical reactions to their works, and discuss the writer's significance in the literary period. Volume I: Settlement to the New Republic, 1607-1815Explores America's literary beginnings and the connections between early American history and the nation's emerging literary tradition--covering the Puritans and their Bay Psalm Book, the Federalists and the United States Constitution, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, and more.Volume II: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1816-1895Discusses the writers, works, genres, literary movements, and related historical events of 19th-century America, from the romanticism of Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to the realism of Mark Twain, Henry James, and William Dean Howells.Volume III: Into the Modern, 1896-1945Defines the evolution of a new American sensibility and brings the modern literary world alive, with entries on Frank Norris; Stephen Crane; Booker T. Washington; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Zora Neale Hurston; The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains; Absalom, Absalom!; and The Waste Land.Volume IV: The Contemporary World, 1946 to the PresentExamines the emergence of new writers and voices and describes the evolving movements that encompass today's literary history--covering Deconstruction, the Beats, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, gay and lesbian literature, New Journalism, science fiction and fantasy, and more.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781438140773Publication Date: 2013
The Continuum Encyclopedia of American LiteratureCall Number: EbookISBN: 9780826415172Publication Date: 2003
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
The Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers together 350 essays from over 190 leading scholars on the whole of American literature, from European discovery to the present. At the core of the Encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. Figures such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, and Morrison are discussed in detail with each examined in the context of his or her times, an assessment of the writer's current reputation, a bibliography of major works, and a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer. Fifty entries on major works such as Moby Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesman, and Beloved place the work in its historical context and offer a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. The Encyclopedia also contains essays on literary movements, periods, and themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making connections between them.
Call Number: PS21 .E537 2004 Reference (4 volumes)ISBN: 0195156536Publication Date: 2004
American Literature
The Harlem Renaissance by
This fascinating historical overview of a significant but sometimes overlooked era will serve as a valuable reference for librarians, teachers, and students in grades 7 through 12. While not standardized in the social studies curriculum, this era is one of the more commonly studied periods in multicultural units, and until now little material has been available about it. This information-packed book covers the years 1917-1933 and is organized by theme (e.g., historical and biographical references, notable contributors, literature and writing). Each section includes an overview of the topic, brief biographical sketches, and an annotated list of pertinent nonfiction references. Intended as a supplement to social studies textbooks and instruction, this work gives educators and students the information they need about this major cultural movement and the achievements of African Americans during an important era
Call Number: EbookISBN: 0585172617Publication Date: 1998
Native American Literatures: An encyclopedia of works, characters, authors, and themes by
An encyclopedia of Native American literatures featuring articles on individual authors, on individual works, on important characters in works, and on terms and events of historical significance that figure in many of the works.
Call Number: PS 153.I52 W47 1999 ReferenceISBN: 0874369320Publication Date: 1999
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, Second Edition covers the entire spectrum of the African-American literary tradition, from the 18th-century writings of pioneers such as Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatley, to 20th-century canonic texts, to the finest of today's best-selling authors and rap artists.
Call Number: EbookPublication Date: 2013
World Literature
Concise Encyclopedia of Modern World Literature
An overview of the most important internationally recognized authors of the firs half of the 20th century. Also includes brief entries on different literary forms (novel, short story etc.) and on various national literatures.
Call Number: PN 41 .C64 ReferencePublication Date: 1963
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature by
Providing a wealth of information, this A-to-Z encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference to the literary works, writers, and concepts of the Renaissance. Spanning the years from approximately 1500 to 1660 CE, this guide examines the history and development of literature as it flourished around the world during this period. Coverage includes not only European literature but also the people and works of China, India, Japan, the Islamic world, and the Jewish diaspora, as well as written and oral literature of the New World, Africa, and Oceania. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature, Second Edition is ideal for anyone interested in the literature of the Renaissance. Literary and historical terms are also included. This new updated edition contains a revised and expanded biography of Shakespeare, as well as new entries entitled Theaters in Shakespeare's Day, Shakespeare's Audience, and England: Literary Culture in the Renaissance. Coverage includes: English: drama and the theater in Elizabethan times; John Milton; the first great translations of the Bible; and an expanded biography of William Shakespeare French: Montaigne and Rene Descartes; German: Jakob Bohme and Martin Luther; Italian: Boccaccio and Machiavelli; Spanish: Miguel de Cervantes and Garcilaso de la Vega; The Netherlands: Erasmus and moral and devotional works; Chinese: The Dream of the Red Chamber and Chinese women writers; Indian: mystical verse and Indian drama; Conquest and New World literature: The Royal Commentaries of the Incas; Islamic: Ibn Rushd and martyrologies and more.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781438149752Publication Date: 2014
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Contains topic-based essays, geo-historical surveys of individual countries, critical biographies on individual writers, and critical summaries of representative works.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781579582524Publication Date: 2000
Literary Criticism Compilations
Full text access to the complete holdings of Gale literary criticism collections is available through the opens new windowGale Literary Sources database, accessible through the Tulsa City County Library. All ORU students opens new windowmay apply for a TCCL card which entitles access to this and other databases through the opens new windowTCCL web site.