• BARKER, Chris. The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies. Sage Publications, 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. (1977) 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.
• LENTRICCHIA, FRANK and McLAUGHLIN, THOMAS, Eds. Critical Terms for Literary Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
• 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.

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism provides an extraordinary selection of critical writings from Georgias of Leontini (ca. 483-376 B.C.E.) to Stuart Moulthrop (b. 1957). It is divided into thematic sections, each one accompanied by a clear introduction. There is an extensive bibliography.

The rest of the suggested texts all combine extensive glossaries with useful added commentaries.

Websites

• http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/ Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website
• http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718 Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
• http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm Literary terms