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Literary and Critical Theory - quick starts

Reference Shelf

Key Concepts in Literary Theory
ISBN: 9780748668397
Key Terms in Literary Theory
ISBN: 9780826442673
A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory
ISBN: 9781317354772
The Literary Theory Handbook
ISBN: 9780470671955
A Dictionary of Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780198794790
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
ISBN: 9781118325988
Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
ISBN: 1405183128
The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods
ISBN: 9781405170482

Histories

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (vols. 1-9)

Newspapers & Periodicals

American Literary History
A peer-reviewed journal that is a forum for a rich and varied criticism shaping the ways we have come to think about America and setting the agenda of American cultural studies.
Criticism
Provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.
PMLA
The journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Publishes members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature.
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies.
n+1
A New York–based American literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction.

Very Short Introductions

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed.)
ISBN: 9780199691340
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199730070

Intro Essays & Topic Overviews

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory This link opens in a new window
Contains contextual info on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

Companion to Literary Theory
ISBN: 9781118958674
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
ISBN: 9781134123278
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories
ISBN: 9781474424745
Modern North American Criticism and Theory
ISBN: 9780748624515
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory by J
ISBN: 9780748624508
The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
ISBN: 9780631232735
A Companion to Narrative Theory
ISBN: 9781405184380
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory
ISBN: 9780521001687
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780521816601

Reading & Teaching the Literary Topic

Teaching Theory
ISBN: 9780230520738
Teaching Narrative Theory
ISBN: 9781603290807

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