Incoming Resources
- About fiction;, reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses
- Mystery and suspense writers, the literature of crime, detection, and espionage, Robin W. Winks, editor in chief ; Maureen Corrigan, associate editor
- Tellers and listeners, the narrative imagination, by Barbara Hardy
- The anatomy of satire
- Adventure, mystery, and romance, formula stories as art and popular culture, John G. Cawelti
- The fourth dimension of a poem, and other essays, M.H. Abrams ; foreword by Harold Bloom
- War and the novelist, appraising the American war novel, Peter G. Jones ; with a foreword by M. L. Rosenthal
- Eleven essays in the European novel, [by] R.P. Blackmur
- The Vintage book of contemporary world poetry, edited, and with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy
- The art of the comic book, an aesthetic history, Robert C. Harvey
- The irresistible fairy tale, the cultural and social history of a genre, Jack Zipes
- Comedy high and low, an introduction to the experience of comedy, Maurice Charney
- The dialogic imagination, four essays, by M. M. Bakhtin ; edited by Michael Holquist ; translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist
- The writing of fiction
- The twentieth-century novel, an introduction, R.B. Kershner
- Narrative situations in the novel;, Tom Jones, Moby-Dick, The ambassadors, Ulysses, [by] Franz Stanzel. Translated by James P. Pusack
- Realism, Damien Grant
- The Oxford companion to fairy tales, edited by Jack Zipes
- Science fiction, history, science, vision, Robert Scholes, Eric S. Rabkin
- The sounds of poetry, a brief guide, Robert Pinsky
- Tragedy
- Billion year spree;, the true history of science fiction, [by] Brian W. Aldiss
- In search of wonder;, essays on modern science fiction,, by Damon Knight. Introd. by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated by J.L. Patterson
- How to read a poem, Terry Eagleton
- Comic book nation, the transformation of youth culture in America, Bradford W. Wright
- Structural fabulation, an essay on fiction of the future, Robert Scholes
- The witness of poetry, Czeslaw Milosz
- The Oxford companion to fairy tales, edited by Jack Zipes