PHIL 3232: History of Aesthetics: Home

Philosophy and Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

Antigone in front of the dead Polyneices by Nikiforos Lytras

Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
Cambridge Companions Online
Companion to Greek Tragedy
Blackwell Reference Online
Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
Cambridge Companions Online

Shakespeare

Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Tragedies
Blackwell Reference Online
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Cambridge Companions Online
Companion to Shakespeare and Performance
Blackwell Reference Online
Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
Blackwell Reference Online
Feminist Companion to Shakespeare
Blackwell Reference Online
Companion to Shakespeare
Blackwell Reference Online

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Companion to the Philosophy of Literature
Blackwell Reference Online
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

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Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Best single reference source for the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

Background/Overviews

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Start Here. Most authoritative encyclopedia of philosophy.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
An excellent philosophy encyclopedia that is freely available on the Web.

New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
"...comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology."

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Database of dozens of encyclopedias and other reference works in broad range of subjects. Includes Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, and Reference Guide to World Literature.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Large database of classic Oxford reference works including literature and philosophy sources. Also great source for history, law, and political science.

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