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Reference Books

The Oxford English Dictionary by Edmund S. Weiner (Editor); John Simpson (Editor)
Call Number: Reference PE1625 .O87 1989 + Online
ISBN: 0198611862
Publication Date: 1989-03-30
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press. It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world. (Wikipedia)
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory by David Herman (Editor); Manfred Jahn (Editor); Marie-Laure Ryan (Editor)
Call Number: Reference PN212 .R68 2008 + Online
ISBN: 9780415775120
Publication Date: 2007-10-31
The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. (Publisher)
Twentieth Century Literary Movements Dictionary by Helene Henderson (Editor); Jay P. Pederson (Editor)
Call Number: Main (2nd Floor) PN597 .T94 2000
ISBN: 1558884262
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
This outstanding reference defines more than 500 literary movements, schools, writers, works, and theories from 80-plus countries. Arranged alphabetically, the entries are augmented with a timeline of movements, a chronology by country, a list of relevant web sites, and indexes of movements, authors, titles, and countries. (Library Journal)

Suggested Books

Alternative Scriptwriting : beyond the Hollywood formula by Ken Dancyger; Jeff Rush
Call Number: PN1996 .D36 2013
ISBN: 9780240522463
Publication Date: 2013-02-08
Alternative Scriptwriting is an insightful and inspiring book on screenwriting concerned with challenging you to take creative risks with genre, tone, character, and structure. Concerned with exploring alternative approaches beyond the traditional three-act structure, Alternative Scriptwriting first defines conventional approach, suggests alternatives, then provides case studies.
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
Call Number: Main (2nd Floor) PQ2633.U43 E93 2009
ISBN: 0811207897
Publication Date: 1981-02-17
The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.
The Practice of Creative Writing : a guide for students by Heather Sellers
Call Number: Main (2nd Floor) PE1408 .S457 2008
ISBN: 9780312436476
Publication Date: 2007-07-27
Heather Sellers, who writes in multiple genres herself, has developed an approach that focuses on the habits and strategies that produce good writing in any genre. (Publisher)
Short: an international anthology of five centuries of short-short stories, prose poems, brief essays, and other short prose forms by Alan Ziegler (Editor)
Call Number: Main (2nd Floor) ; PN6014 .S5116 2014
ISBN: 9780892554324
Publication Date: 2014-03-26
Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) from 24 Western countries, written over five centuries by more than 200 contributors, including major authors of every era. Fables, histories, aphorisms, anecdotes, faux dictionary entries, a faux job application, hint fiction, lists, tableaus, meditations, chants, rants, and much more. Intensely pleasurable.Contributors include: Montaigne, von Kleist, Leopardi, Poe, Baudelaire, Bierce, Chopin, Stein, Jacob, Woolf, Kafka, J. Roth, Toomer, Borges, Queneau, Kunitz, Beckett, Milosz, Cortazar, Paz, Barthes, Calvino, O'Hara, Merwin, Lispector, Transtromer, Sanchez, Edson, Simic, Atwood, Valenzuela, Wideman, L. Davis, Komunyakaa, A. Carson, Forche, Harjo, Hempel, Wenderoth, Keret, B. Marcus, A. Bender, Eggers, B. Lerner, T. Brimhall.

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Call Number Range	Subject
P101-410	Language, Linguistic theory, Comparative grammar
301 – 301.5	Style. Composition. Rhetoric
PE1-3729	English
1001-1693	Modern English
PL490-495	Far Eastern languages and literature
PL501-889	Japanese language and literature
PL901-998	Korean language and literature
PL1001-3208	Chinese language and literature
PL8000-8844	African languages and literature
PN1-6790	Literature (general)
80-99	Criticism
441-1009.5	Literary history
1010-1525	Poetry
1600-3307	Drama
3311-3503	Prose, Prose Fiction
PQ1-3999	French literature
PQ4001-5999	Italian literature
PQ6001-8929	Spanish literature
PQ9000-9999	Portuguese literature
PR1-9680	English literature
1-56	Literary history and criticism
57-78	Criticism
111-116	Women authors
500-614	Poetry
621-744	Drama
750-890	Prose
1098-1369	Collections of English literature
PS1-3626	American literature
301-326	Poetry
330-353	Drama
360-380	Prose
501-689	Collections of American literature
700-893	Colonial period (17th and 18th centuries)
991-3390	19th century
3500-3549	1900-1960
3550-3576	1961-2000
3600-3626	2001-
PT1-4897	German literature
PT6500-6593.36	Afrikaans literature

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Creative Writing

Reference Books

Suggested Books

Browse the call numbers below to discover more titles. You can find the call number range on the side of the library stacks on the 2nd floor.

Browse the call numbers below to discover more titles.
You can find the call number range on the side of the library stacks on the 2nd floor.