English Language and Literature
"Encyclopedia..."
Check out the Oxford English Dictionary's second and third entries for "encyclopedia".
Note especially entries 2 and 3.
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HINT: The asterisk * is a "truncation" symbol. It allows you to search for terms that have the same root but different endings. For example, litera* will return literature, literatures and literary.
HINT: In the search above, try using dictionary, or handbook, or guide, instead of encyclopedia.
Encyclopedias
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by Jack Zipes (Editor)Call Number: PN1008.5.094 2006ISBN: 9780195146561Publication Date: 2006-05-04For much of its history, children's literature has been overlooked or looked down on by scholars. But in recent years children's literature has assumed greater importance, as literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians have begun to discover what children and parents haveknown for centuries: that this is a literature of extraordinary richness, depth, and delight.The Encyclopedia captures and elucidates this richness in four volumes and 3,200 signed entries. It offers comprehensive coverage of children's literature, from medieval chapbooks of moral instruction for children to J. K. Rowling's immensely popular Harry Potter books. Unlike other references,the Encyclopedia not only documents but also interprets every work, major and minor, that has played a role in the history of children's literature in the world. General essays illuminate prominent trends, themes, genres, and the traditions of children's literature in many countries. In addition,the Encyclopedia provides biographies of important writers, as well as extensive coverage of illustrators with numerous examples of their work. Sociocultural developments such as the impact of toys, films, animation, the Internet, literacy, libraries and librarians, censorship, the multiculturalexpansion of the field, and other issues related to the appreciation and dissemination of children's literature are also addressed.While the Encyclopedia concentrates on the tradition known best by its readership, it also covers the international development of children's literature and offers an unprecedented treatment of works from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, African countries, and other nations. Itsover 800 distinguished contributors come from around the world and include such renowned scholars and writers as Gillian Avery, Peter Hunt, Klaus Doderer, Hansa Heino Ewers, Jean Perrot, Denise Escarpit, Brian Alderson, and Betsy Gould Hearne.A-Z organization, accessible writing, plentiful illustrations, cross-references, bibliographies, a comprehensive index and a systematic outline make the Encyclopedia an invaluable and easy-to-use research reference.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS - ONLINE
Columbia Encyclopedia (via Credo Reference) "Provides authoritative factual information about our world in its many guises - physical, historical, geographical, political, scientific, religious, and cultural."
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory (2002, via Credo Reference)
The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (2002) Also available in print.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS - PRINT
Encyclopedia of African-American Writing (2009)
Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950 (2006)
Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States (2009)
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature (2006)
Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism (2003)
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