Comparative Literature  Tags: criticism literary literature theory comparative_literature comparative culture translation_studies  

Scholarly-owned reference encyclopedia which provides 4700 profiles of authors, works and topics (literary, philosophical, historical).

Access to Oxford's entire set of literature reference titles, including the Oxford Companion series (e.g. the New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, the Companion to German Literature).

A comprehensive reference guide to concepts in semiotics, sign theory, and cultural studies. Over 300 entries.

Coverage of English-language writers from around the world as well as entries on literary movements and periodicals.

Extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history. Over 1,200 entries.

Over 3,000 entries.

Covers authors and works up to the mid–1990s.

Over 2,400 entries.

Examines historical, theoretical, and practical issues of translation with entries on individual texts, writers, genres, and national literatures. Over 170 substantial entries.

Provides translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert in the 18th century.

Texts range from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 16th to the 19th century.

Full-text. 'Provides a comprehensive reference for those interested in the history of poetry or in any aspect of the technique or criticism of poetry. Provides surveys of national poetries; descriptions of poetic forms and genres; detailed explanations of the devices of prosody and rhetoric; and overviews of all major schools of poetry ancient and modern, Western and Eastern.' (from ebook homepage)