Research Guides: French Language & Literature: Literary Theory

Literary Theory Resources

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new window
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is a reference guide to literary theory. The Guide includes entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

Dictionnaire de Critique Littéraire
This dictionary has a wide range of terms, from abstraction to zeugme.
The Oxford dictionary of literary terms
Contains a fully updated A-Z guide to over 1,200 definitions of terms from the fields of literary theory and criticism, rhetoric, versification and drama.
The year's work in critical and cultural theory
Provides a year-by-year narrative and analytic overview of publications and trends in the fields of critical and cultural theory. From vol. 1, 1991, up to current volume.