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Twentieth-century literary movements dictionary
The book of literary terms : the genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary criticism, and scholarship. PN44.5 .T87 1999
The Twentieth Century Novel: an Introduction. PN172 .E52 2001
The Short Story: a Critical Introduction. PN3373 .S384 1983
On Drama: Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self. PN1631 .G59 2000
The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. PN1021 .N39 1993
Dictionary of Poetic Terms. PN1042 .M93 2003
The Teachers & writers handbook of poetic forms . PN1042 .T43 1987
Encyclopedia of the Essay. PN6141 .E53 1997
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. PN41 .C83 1998
Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. PN41 .H36 1992
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. PN81 .J554 2005
A Handbook to Literature. PN41 .H6 1992
Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motives. PN43 .D48 1988
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. PN172 .E52 2001
Biographies
Italian prose writers, 1900-1945. REF PN451 .D5 vol. 264
Italian novelists since World War 11, 1945-1965. REF PN451 .D5 vol. 177
Italian novelists since World War II, 1965-1990. REF PN451 .D5 vol. 196
Twentieth-century Italian poets. REF PN451 .D5 vol. 128 and vol. 114
The Oxford companion to Italian literature . REF PQ4006 .O84 2002
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature. REF PQ 4038 .C35 1996
Dictionary of Italian literature. REF PQ4006 .D45 1996
Historical dictionary of modern Italy. REF DG555 .G53 1999
European Writers. REF PN 501 .E9 1983
The Oxford Pocket Italian Dictionary - online
MLA Bibliography - most important index for literary research in journals and some books
Annie Catalog - look for your author or title as a Subject heading or Keyword
- look under Subject heading Modernism Italy Literature
WorldCat - use same search strategy as in Annie
Literature Resource Center - look for author/title and then click "Literary Criticism" tab.
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