• BARKER, CHRIS. The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies. Sage Publications, 2004.
• BARRY, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester University Press. 2009.
• BENNETT, ANDREW and ROYLE, NICHOLAS. Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. London: Pearson Longman, 2004.
• BUCHANAN, IAN. A Dictionary of Critical Theory. Oxford UP, 2010.
• CULLER, JONATHAN. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 2011
• LEITCH, VINCENT B., The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W.W.Norton and Co., 2010.
• BALDICK, CHRIS. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• CUDDON, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1999.
• HABIB, M. A. R. Literary Criticism: from Plato to the Present. An Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• KLARER, MARIO. An Introduction to Literary Studies. London: Routledge, 2004.
• LENTRICCHIA, FRANK and McLAUGHLIN, THOMAS, Eds. Critical Terms for Literary Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
• MAYS, KELLY J., The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter. NY: Norton & Co., 2017.
• NAYAR, PRAMOND K., Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory. From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. Delhi: Pearson, 2010.
• ROCHE, ANTHONY. Brian Friel. Theatre and Politics. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
• SELDEN, RAMAN, et al. Eds. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2005.
• WOLFREYS, JULIAN. Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• ----------. Ed. Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
• WAUGH, PATRICIA. Ed. An Oxford Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford UP, 2006.

None of the above texts is compulsory. They provide a suggested complementary bibliography for further study.

Websites

• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
• Literary terms
• The Kate Chopin International Society
• Brian Friel Theatre. Research Centre.