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English - Research Methods and Critical Theory Bibliography

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Books in Buley Library
African American Literary Theory: A Reader PS153.N5 A335 2000
Africana Womanist Literary Theory On Order
American Drama to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources Ref Z1231.D7M45
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850 Ref PS74.A44 1987
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850-1880 Ref PS74.A45 1988
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880-1900 Ref PS74.A46 1988
American Literature: A Study and Research Guide Ref Z1225.L47 1976
American Literature and Language: A Guide to Information Sources Ref Z1225.K68 1982
American Prose and Criticism, 1900-1950: A Guide to Information Sources  Ref Z1231.P8.B74
American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays PS374.S5 A3968 1995
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature Ref Z2011.M69
The Art of Literary Research PR56.A68 1993
At War With the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education  PN94.Y68 1999
Beyond Literary Theory: Literature as a Search for the Meaning of Human Destiny PN511.S73 2001
C.G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge From Fiction PN98.P75 R69 1999
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Ref PN610.C53
A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory On Order
Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography Z65114.C97M37 1993
Contemporary Feminist Theories HQ1150.C665 1998
Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature  PN61.C58 1990
Critical Questions: Invention, Creativity, and the Criticism of Discourse and Media  P301.C74 1994
Critical Theory  B809.3.H68 1994
Critical Theory and African Literature Today PL8010.A4 no. 19
Critical Theory and Educational Research Ref LB1028.C743 1999
Critical Theory and Philosophy BD175.I54 1990
Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook PN98.S6 G735 1996
Critical Theory and Science Fiction PN3422.5.F74 2000
Critical Theory and the English Teacher LB1631.P38 1993
Critical Theory and the Novel: Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in Dickens, Melville, and Kafka PR4592.S58S83 1993
Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature PN80.5.C74 1985
Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity   HM24.K445 1989
Critical Theory: Selected Essays B3279.H8472E5 1982
Critical Theory Since Plato BH39.A23
A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998 PR 6045.O72Z8947 1999
Critique, Action and Liberation B809.3.M37 1995
Cultural Studies and the New Humanities: Concepts and Controversies B809.3.F847 1997
Dead Artists, Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems PN85.A73 1993
Deconstructing the Hero: Literary Theory and Children's Literature PN1009.A1H67 1997
Deconstruction and Critical Theory PN98.D43 Z54 2002
A Dictionary of Critical Theory Ref PN98.S6O77 1991
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory Ref HM101.D527 1999
A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms Ref PN44.5.Q56 1999
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory Ref PN41.C83 1998
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory PN85.A27 1989
The Discipline of English: A Guide to Critical Theory and Practice PR21.W3 1979
The Emperor Redressed: Critiquing Critical Theory PN98.D43E48 1995
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory PN98.W64 E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism Ref PN187.E88 1991
Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory PN187.E88 1994
Feminist Theory and the Classics PA35.F46 1993
From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory PT73.B69 1997
German Twentieth Century Philosophy: The Frankfurt School B3183.5.G47 2000
A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory Ref PN44.5.H37 2000
Grounds of Literary Criticism PN81.R325 1998
A Guide to Literary Criticism and Research Ref PN81.S73 1996
Handbook of Literary Research Ref PR56.M54 1995
Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory And Technology PN81.L28 1992
The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520 PR255.I34 1999
Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory B809.3.M33 1991
The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English PR9489.6.V46 2000
An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies Z1001.W58 1999
An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students Z1001.M16 1928
An Introduction to Research in English Literary History PR56.S3 1952
An Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures PB35.I57 1992
James Joyce and Critical Theory: An Introduction PR6019.O9Z786 1991
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism PN81.J554 2005
Key Concepts in Literary Theory PN44.5.W65 2001
The Language of Drama: Critical Theory and Practice PN1631.B57 1991
Learning for a Diverse World: Using Critical Theory to Read and Write about Literature

PN98.S6.T97 2001
Literary Research Guide Ref Z2011.H34 1998
The Literary Text in the Digital Age PR21.L59 1996
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide  PN86.L555 2006
Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics PN94.M65 1997
Literary Theory From Plato to Barthes: An Introductory History PN81.H2843 1999
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction PN81.C857 1997
Literary Theory: An Anthology PN45.L512 1998
Literary Theory: The Basics PN94.B47 2001
Literary Theory Today PN94.L488 1990
Literature: An Embattled Profession PN70.W66 1999
Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars Ref PN73.B76 2000
Literature in English: A Guide for Librarians in the Digital Age Ref Z2001.A2L57 2000
Lives of the Poets PR502.S35 1999
Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory PN98.M67 M37 2001
Modern American Critics, 1920-1955 Ref PS78.M58 1987
Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature PA35.M63 1994
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader PN81.M54 1996
The Myth of Theory PN98.S6R54 1994
New Romanticism: Theory and Critical Practice PR457.N45 1994
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word P35.O5 1988
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation Ref PR131.O94 2000
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory PN41.C83 1999
The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism  BH151.W44213 1991
Perspectives in Critical Thinking: Essays by Teachers in Theory And Practice LB1590.3.P476 2000
Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature PN49.H625 2000
The Philosophy of Literature  PN502.S35 1999
The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory PN94.Z56 1999
Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology PN98.P67 P67 2000
Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction  PN94L83 1997
Post-theory: New Directions in Criticism PR21.P67 1999
Preparing to Teach Writing: Research Theory, and Practice PE1404.W54 1998
Problems in Literary Research: A Guide to Selected Reference Works Ref Z6511.K4
A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory  PN94B76 1996
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory PN94.S45 1997
Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory PN83.W65 2000x
Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies PN98.R38 R434 2001
Reference Guide for English Studies PR56.M37 1990
Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Literary Theory PR651.M83 2000
Reorientation: Critical Theories and Pedagogies PN81.R375 1990
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature Ref PR56.B34 2006
Research Guide to Biography and Criticism Ref Z2011.R47 1985
Research in Critical Theory since 1965: A Classified Bibliography Z6514.C97O77 1989
Research Methods: Guidance for Postgraduates Q180.55.M4R473 1996
The Scholar-critic: An Introduction to Literary Research  PN73.B3 1972
Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory  PR2983.C86 1997
Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema PR3093.S64 2002
Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality PS228.S42S77 2000
Teaching the Research Paper PE1404.T397
Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression PN98.S6S75 1997
The Theory Mess: Deconstruction in Eclipse PN98.D43R37 2001
Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach PN3451.T49 2000
The Twentieth Century World of Henry James PS2124.T56 2000
Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader PN94.T87 1997
Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory PS78S65 1997
The Use of Manuscripts in Literary Research: Problems of Access and Literary Property Rights PR56.T45
What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory PS25.W48 2000
What's Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy B831.2.N67 1990
Writing Theory and Critical Theory PE1404.W744 1994

Web Sites for Literature Research and Critical Theory

American and English Literature Internet Resources
litbib.html
This subject guide created at Southern Connecticut State University serves as a good starting point for research in English and American literature. The first link on the site is to electronic text archives followed by general literature sites that contain a wealth of literary sites from academic institutions and elsewhere. The emphasis is on American and English literature. Each of these categories lists general sites followed by sites that are devoted to specific genres. Shakespeare has a separate link. In addition to general information on authors, there are links to the following authors: Jane Austen, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, S. T. Coleridge, Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Nancy Drew, The T.S. Eliot, Faulkner, Scott F. Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sherlock Holmes, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, C.S. Lewis, Langston Hughes, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, Edmund Spenser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tennyson, Mark Twain, H.G.Wells, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats. 

American Studies Web
http://lamp.georgetown.edu/asw/
This is the American Studies Virtual Library from Georgetown University. It contains finding aids, directories, and resources for American Studies. Provides access to online libraries, primary texts, and special collections pertaining to American Studies. The following links are especially useful: Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies (an on-line bibliographic essay by T.V. Reed of Washington State University), American Studies Web (a subject and topic based directory of links to topics in American culture), Archive of Primary Texts from the University of Virginia (which includes Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence, among other titles), Index to articles published in the American Quarterly from 1975-1995, Essays about American Studies from the ASA archive, and abstracts of American Studies Dissertations from 1986 to the present. 

Bibliography for the History of English Studies
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/research/englstud.html
This page was authored by Rita Raley in 1995 while she was a graduate student in the University of California, Santa Barbara. Although the title suggests it is merely a bibliography, some of the essays are available in full text. There are primary documents on site by Thomas B. Macaulay; John Henry Newman; Adam Sedgwick; Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett; Mary Wollstonecraft; Raymond Williams; Gayatri Spivak; Gauri Viswanathan; D.J. Palmer; Chris Baldick; Franklin Court; Brian Massumi; Avital Ronell; and others. 

A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
This site promotes awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing throughout history. It provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers and complete published books written by women. Also contains online editions of older, rare, and out-of-copyright works covering the following categories: children's books (poetry and prose), fiction (poetry, prose, and plays), and non-fiction (diaries, letters, autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, travel, and social issues. 

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
http://eserver.org/theory/
This site lists books on cultural studies and critical theory under the following categories: American studies, critical legal studies, critical theory, cultural studies, disciplinary studies, literary studies, Marxist studies, media studies, postcolonial, postmodern studies, poststructuralism, queer studies, race studies, and women's studies. It is possible to browse works by title or by author under any of these categories. Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices. The works listed in this bibliography help to introduce the issues and concerns raised by the field. 

English Literature on the Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
Contains links to general sites on British and Commonwealth Literature; links to British and Irish authors by time period; electronic text resources; Anglo-Saxon and medieval links; links to Renaissance, Restoration, Romanticism and Victorian literature; twentieth century literature; links to general sites on American Literature and American authors and their works. 

Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html
The page includes information on difference literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory. The section on literary theory contains a bibliography on feminist literary theory. The page also contains information on selective individual feminists and highlights biographical information, major themes, their specific contribution to feminist theory, and a bibliography of books, articles secondary sources and internet sites. 

A Guide to Literary Research based on the MLA
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
This guide for writing papers based on the Modern Language Association documentation, was prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr. Library, Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut. The bottom of the page also has a link to the College's APA Style guide. In addition to these style guides there is also a link to grammar and writing. 

Literary and Cultural Theory
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/www/theory.asp
In addition to general literary theory sites, there are links to theorists such as Bakhtin, Freud, Marx, Foucalt, Husserl. Additional links are available to theory journals like Applied Semiotics, Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, Enculturalism, Journal of the History of Ideas, Poetics Today and Postmodern Culture, and cyberspace theory. 

Literary History
http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Serves as a useful guide for readers, students and teachers of English literature. Keeps readers informed of the most innovative criticism on the web. There is a selective list of links to the best articles on Romantic and Victorian literature, and a web index of Post-modern literature. This site is published and edited by a former indexer and abstracter of H.W. Wilson Company, Jane Pridmore, who also teaches Composition and Literature at Boston University. This site is committed to promoting the use of the internet for scholarly research in literary studies. 

Literary Resources - Theory
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html
Part of the "Literary Resources" collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, this page includes links to ECLAT (Essential Comparative Literature and Theory) site from University of Pennsylvania; the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism; Literary Theory Project from Rice University; Modern Literary Theory site from University of Texas at Austin which contains information on twentieth century literary theory such as formalism, structuralism, feminism, and psychoanalysis; the Society for Critical Exchange; the Popular Culture website from Manchester Institute; UC Irvine's Wellek Library Lecture Bibliographies of works by and about major theorists; Who's Who in Theory from Southern Oregon State University; the Cultural Theory page from the English Server at CMU; various links to philosophy, postmodern thought, and cultural studies; a guide to the theory of literary genres form the University of Cologne; information on specific critical theory journals and individual theorists like Bakhtin, Passagenwerk, Maurice Blanchot, Harold Bloom, Helene Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Paul de Man, Michel Foucalt, Freud, Husserl. I.A. Richards, and Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Lyotard. 

Literature Resources - MIT Libraries
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/Literature/index1.html
Contains and extensive collection of internet links by literary period and genre. The periods covered are classic and medieval, sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, American, Canadian, Australian drama, poetry, women and literature sites. Also contains links to databases and e-journals, literary works in full text, literary meta sites which are web sites that offer broad coverage of literature resources, reference works, specific authors and their works, and other miscellaneous sites including listservs, electronic text centers, bibliographies, literary prizes, and scholarly societies. 

On Literary Reading
http://www.stthomasu.ca/~hunt/litread.htm
This bibliography prepared by Russ Hunt of St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada, lists journal articles and chapters from books on the topic of literary reading. The bibliography contains seventeen citations and many of the articles and book chapters listed are available in full text. 

Online Literary Criticism Collection - Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Contains evaluative or explanatory writings about works of literature. The collection includes many international authors but the sites are primarily in the English language. British authors include authors of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh origin, and writers of the British colonies such as India. The website can be browsed for information on authors and their works by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The categories of information include American literature, British literature, Canadian literature, French literature, Italian literature, Spanish literature, German literature, Lain literature, Russian literature, Japanese literature, Greek literature, Chinese literature, Polish literature, Scandinavian literature, literature of South East Asia, Middle East literature, Caribbean, African, Australian, New Zealandic, and Indian Literature. 

Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dcoffey/studies.htm
This is a bibliography of citations appearing in Biblio-Notes: Issued by the English and American Literature Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, (ALA) and to those appearing in other sources. Citations to studies on the MLA International Bibliography have been excluded, because these can be found at (URL:http://www.wam.umd.edu/~vansant/mlaibdg/bibliography.html). Citations having multiple subjects have multiple listings. This bibliography was conceived by Scott Stebelman and is now maintained by Dan Coffey and the Literatures in English section of ACRL. It is an extensive bibliography that contains citations to books, book chapters, journal articles, dissertations and newsletters in the following categories: Graduate Education in English, College English Studies and English Departments, Literary Research Tools, Research and Information Seeking Behaviors of Humanities Scholars, Databases Searching in Literature (online and CD), Cataloging and Indexing, Collection Development and Assessment, User Education, Canon Formation in Literary Studies, Preservation, Impact of Technology on Humanities Research, Teaching and Production, Composition Studies, and Special Collections such as rare books and manuscripts. 

Voice of the Shuttle Literary Theory Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu//browse.asp?id=2718
This is a thorough bibliography boasting an exhaustive list of literary theory, literary criticism, and cultural theory links. The bibliography starts off with general theory resources and then categorizes them by literary time frame and genre ranging from the classics to the contemporary. The General section has a link to FrontList Books, an "online bookstore offering scholarly and literary titles to readers with decidedly theoretical interests; emphasis on recently published and soon to be published titles from over 175 publishers in literary, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory; cinema, literary, gender, women's studies, Asian, Latin American, and cultural studies; fiction, philosophy, anthropology, history, and poetry; allows browsing by category and includes brief description of books". Other useful information in this category is a timeline of literary theories in the United States and links to materials from some academic institutions on contemporary literary theory. Plato and Aristotle enjoy extensive links in the Classics section. Kant is the focus of the Enlightenment and Romantic category while Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are featured in the nineteenth century. An extensive suite of pages is devoted to surrealism, existentialism, futurism, new criticism, phenomenology, structuralism in the twentieth century with several links to proponents of those theories. The contemporary theory section highlights cultural studies, cyberculture, feminist theory, film theory, media theory, Marxist critique, deconstruction, postcolonial studies, postindustrial business theory, reader response theory and technology theory. 

Yahoo - Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Criticism_and_Theory/
Yahoo's site on literary criticism and theory contains the following categories: books (a wide array of links that list books on literary theory and criticism), hypertext theory (links to web resources on the developments of hypertext theory and practice in literature), journals (a listing of print and online journals that encourage publication of articles dealing with literary theory/cultural studies), papers and projects (submitted by individuals and by students at various institutions), postcolonialism (links to postcolonial studies at institutions, journals that publish articles on postcolonialism, and an overview of postcolonial and postimperial literature), reader response theory (web sites that are devoted to research on literary reading, reader criticism and pedagogical theory), theorists and critics (containing numerous links dealing with literary criticism as well as an alphabetical listing of links to literary and cultural theorists and critics), and, finally, web directories that link to meta sites on literary criticism. 

Databases

The following databases contain a wealth of information on literary figures and their works:

Indexes

Indexes provide bibliographic citations to articles in books, magazines, journals, and newspapers. A bibliographic citation consists of author, title of article, title of periodical, volume, page and date. Once you get the citation, check CONSULS to see if we have the publication that is cited in the index.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature --Ref Z2011. M689
This is the English counterpart of the MLA. It identifies books, pamphlets and periodical articles that contain literary information. Also available online through LION.

Biography Index -- Index Section
Indexes biographical material in books and journals. Includes references to obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs and bibliographies.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index -- Ref Z5305.U5 B87
Includes biographical sketches that have been published in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Good place to start if nothing other than the person's name is known.

Essay and General Literature Index -- Index Section, Main Floor
This is an index to chapters in books and essays in collections.

Humanities Index -- Index Section, Main Floor
Index articles that appear in English language journals. Includes language, literature and literary criticism. Entries are by author and subject.

The New York Times Index -- Index Section, Main Floor
Indexes articles that appear in the New York Times. Book Reviews are arranged by title under the section, "Book Reviews". Also available online via the databases page.

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