These references can help you understand the background foundation of your research topic.
Reference Guide to World Literature covers writers from the ancient Greeks to 20th-century authors. Provides biographies of world renown writers and detailed overview of the author's life and works.
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (2nd Flr Reference: PN771 .E5 1999 v.1-4)
World Literature and Its Times
v.1. Latin American literature and its times
v. 2. African literature and its times
v. 5. Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times (The Iberian Peninsula)
v. 6. Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times
v. 8. Classical Literature and Its Times.
Th Routledge Companion to World Literature
The Writers Directory
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable