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Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres, including literary critics and scholars, and cultural theorists, and ancient writers. Find your authors such as Edward Said, Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Pearl S, Buck, James A. Michener, and David Belasco.
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select
Provides an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study. |
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Grove Art Online (The seminal source for art—the online equivalent of the 34 volumes of the print The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, plus updates since the print version.)
The Oxford guide to film studies.
Short essays on aspects of film (such as the text, acting, music), critical approaches (e.g., semiotics, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, feminism), and history (American, European, world).
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| Cultural and Critical Theories |
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres, including literary critics and scholars, and cultural theorists, and ancient writers. Find your authors such as Edward Said, Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Pearl S, Buck, James A. Michener, and David Belasco.
A dictionary of cultural and critical theory. Ref. HM101 .D527 1996
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