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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick
Call Number: REF 803 C74
ISBN: 9780199208272
Publication Date: 2009-
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch (Editor); Margaret Drabble (Editor)
ISBN: 9780192806871
Publication Date: 2009
The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart; Phillip Leininger (Revised by)
Call Number: REF 810.3 H25 1995
ISBN: 0195065484
Publication Date: 1995
A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman; William Harmon
Call Number: REF 803 H73 1986
ISBN: 0023564105
Publication Date: 1986
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews (Editor); Frances Smith Foster (Editor); Trudier Harris (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195138832
Publication Date: 2001
The Companion to African Literatures by Douglas Killam (Editor); Ruth Rowe (Editor); G. D. Killam
Call Number: REF 820.99603 C73
ISBN: 0253336333
Publication Date: 2000
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M. C. Howatson
Call Number: REF 880.3 H26
ISBN: 9780199548545
Publication Date: 2011

Revised and updated, concise encyclopedia
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature by Robert Welch (Editor)
ISBN: 9780192800800
Publication Date: 2000
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
ISBN: 9780199532919
Publication Date: 2010
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature by Joy Hooton; William H. Wilde; Barry Andrews
ISBN: 9780195533811
Publication Date: 1995
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature by Eugene Benson; William Toye (Editor)
Call Number: REF 809.8971 Ox2
ISBN: 0195411676
Publication Date: 1998

A concise encyclopedia
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature by Roger Robinson (Editor); Nelson Wattie
ISBN: 9780195583489
Publication Date: 1999

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