Course Material
Most items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.

Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 121. Click search.

Voyager Searches  

The following searches are Subject Heading searches and will help you find books on the topics of this course.

Reference Books
For more information about reference books, and a more extensive list, see Reference Resources for English

Bal, Mieke, ed. Narrative theory : critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. 4 vols. London ; New York: Routledge, 2004.

Childs, Peter, and Roger Fowler, eds. Routledge dictionary of literary terms. London: Routledge, 2006.

Harmon, William. Handbook to literature. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.

Kennedy, X. J., Gioia, D., and Mark Bauerlein. The Longman dictionary of literary terms : vocabulary for the informed reader. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.

__________________________________. Handbook of literary terms : literature, language, theory. New York : Pearson/Longman, 2009 (2008 printing)

Lanham, Richard A. A handlist of rhetorical terms. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Quinn, Edward. Dictionary of literary and thematic terms. New York, NY: Checkmark Books, 2006.

Wolfreys, Julian. Critical keywords in literary and cultural theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Online Reference

Blackwell Reference Online - a online collection of reference books. Individual titles of relevance to this course:

Jost, Walter, and Wendy Olmsted, eds. A companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Phelan, James, and Peter J. Rabinowitz, eds. A companion to narrative theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Payne, Michael, ed. A dictionary of cultural and critical theory. Oxford, OX, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Reference, 1997.

Quintero, Ruben, ed. A companion to satire. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Stam, Robert, and Alessandra Raengo, eds. A companion to literature and film. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Oxford Reference Online -an online collection of reference books. Both the English Language Reference and Literature collections contain titles useful for this course.

Oxford English Dictionary - the online version of the 20 volume OED, with monthly updates of new words.

Database Searches
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The following databases will provide references to material the topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these databases.

INNZ -  Index New Zealand - indexes articles in newspapers, magazines and scholarly serials.

MLA International Bibliography - indexes articles in scholarly serials on literature, language, theory and criticism, and cultural topics. Some articles may be provided full text. Where no full text is available, use the to search Voyager. Full text may be available from the Voyager catalogue record.

Internet Resources
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The Media and Communications Studies - from University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Rhetoric and Composition - from Carnegie Mellon University

Silva Rhetoricae : The Forest of Rhetoric - from Brigham Young University. Deals mostly with classical rhetoric

Rhetoric and Composition Materials - models of rhetoric, writing processes and argumentation