Literary Studies (Yale-NUS College): Books

This Oxford Reference source contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.

This guide to English literature contains more than 5,500 entries on writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. It includes feature entries on important genres in literature and has been revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction, biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature.The appendices listing literary prize winners and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day.

This dictionary provides Baldick's definitions of more than 1000 literary terms. Entries include contemporary terms like post-structuralism, deconstruction, semiotics, reader-response criticism. It also covers traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, of literary schools from Alexandrianism to Transcendentalism.

"Contemporary Literary Criticism" is an authoritative source containing essays on important aspects of and ideas within literary criticism.

Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this dictionary covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, internet studies, and sociopolitical critical theory.

A quick-reference guide to authors and their works. The focus is on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American, Commonwealth, and other foreign writers.

This is the complete version of the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick.

This dictionary from Oxford University Press provides information on 1000 of the best-known, most popular, and important plays in world theatre. Each entry provides information on a play's title, author, date of composition and first performance, genre, cast, plot, and brief commentary.