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Reference sources are a great starting point for research. Reference sources typically provide definitions, give topic overviews, and explain theories. They can also point to additional readings and scholarship. Examples of reference sources include: dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, guidebooks, manuals, and textbooks.
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Provides definitions of terms and concepts, explanations of major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory, and an extensive bibliography. ebook
Provides accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory. ebook
Explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we all frequently encounter and gives hundreds of cross-references and quotations. ebook
Provides an invaluable guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English. ebook
Offers both a survey of literary themes and a collection of in-depth analyses of how these themes operate in individual literary works. REF 820.93 En192