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Reference
Recent reference publications include
Canadian entries in several standard series,
including comments on Gary Geddes and
Robert Service in Contemporary Authors
140 (Gale, n.p.) and a curious selection of
excerpts from commentary on Margaret
Laurence in Short Story Criticism 7: 243-73
(Gale, n.p.). The Dictionary of Literary
Biography extends itself judiciously in vol.
117 (ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard
Sander) to a first selection of 20th Century
Caribbean and Black African Writers, a
grouping that includes Rhys, Walcott,
Montreal-born John Hearne, and (helpfully,
though somewhat surprisingly, in this
context) a reflection on Equiano and 18thcentury
slave narratives. Of importance to
researchers in science fiction are: Robert
Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy
Literature, 19/5-1991 (Gale, n.p.), a bibliography
of SF, Fantasy, and Horror fiction
books, and non-fiction monographs; the
third edition of Noëlle Watson and Paul E.
Schellinger's 20th-century Science-Fiction
Writers (St. James P, n.p.), a useful biocritical
guide; and H.W. Hall's 2-volume Science
Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1878-
1985 (Gale, n.p.), indexed by author and
subject. Other standard works include
James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide,
2nd. ed. (MLA, $37.00; pb $19.50), grouping
entries by genre, area studies, mss and
archives, databases, periodical literature,
and other categories. And perhaps a special
kind of standard reference is much more
sociocultural than biblioliterary: a new,
clear edition of Kate Aitken's Cook Book
(HarperCollins, $12.95).
Dictionary format books include Roget's
21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form,
ed. Princeton Language Institute (Laurel,
n.p.); Joanne Shattock's The Oxford Guide
to British Women Writers (Oxford, $42.00),
which gathers available material on a number
of early writers, draws on up-to-date
scholarship, and includes many contemporary
writers as well; Mary Kandiuk's French-
Canadian Authors (Scarecrow, $27.50), a
bibliography of primary works together
with lists of £ng/is/î-language criticism that
has dealt with them; Pierre Brunei's edition
of a Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes
and Archetypes (Routledge, n.p.), containing
over 1200 pages of descriptive commentary
on Echo, Faust, Centaurs, Nietzchean
attitudes to various subjects, and other
material; Jeremy Hawthorn's A Concise
Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory
(Routledge, $15.95), lucidly explaining various
systems, from diegesis to différance;
Julian Franklin's A Dictionary of Rhyming
Slang (Routledge, n.p.): a book is a "Captain
Cook" or a "Joe Hook," but not a "Joe
Rook," which is a "crook"; Brenda F.
Berrian and Aart Brock, eds., Bibliography
of Women Writers from the Caribbean
(Three Continents, n.p.), a useful photo
typescript detailing works by Spanish,
French, English, and Dutch-speaking writers,
listed by category; and Daryl Cumber
Dance's excellent Fifty Caribbean Writers
(Greenwood, n.p.), a valuable biobibliographical
sourcebook which brings
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