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Humanities Librarian
Leanna Goodwater
Contact:
University Library
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
lgoodwater@scu.edu
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
lgoodwater@scu.edu
408-554-5434
Subjects: Art & Art History, Classics, English, Ethics, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy, Theatre & Dance
Literary Theory and Terminology
REFERENCE SOURCES ON LITERARY THEORY AND TERMINOLOGY
The following reference works are good sources for learning more about particular theoretical approaches, and for finding definitions of the terms used by scholars when analyzing literature.
Dictionaries of Poetic Terms
DICTIONARIES OF POETIC TERMS
The following reference books are very helpful in explaining the many specialized terms that are used by scholars when they talk about poetry.
- Columbia Granger's World of Poetry This link opens in a new windowAn online source for finding copies of poems published in English and other languages. In addition to supplying over 450,000 citations to where the poems may be found in printed books, it provides the full text online of over 250,000 poems, critical commentaries on 1,000 well-known poems, biographies of approximately 500 poets, and a "Listening Room" featuring notable contemporary poets reading aloud a selection of poems by many authors. Updated regularly.