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The Oxford dictionary of literary terms / Chris Baldick.

By: Baldick, Chris.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford paperback reference.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008Edition: 3rd ed.Description: x, 361 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780199208272; 0199208271; 9780199238910.Other title: Dictionary of literary terms.Subject(s): Literature -- Terminology | Criticism -- Terminology -- Dictionaries | Criticism -- Terminology | Literature -- Terminology -- Dictionaries | English language -- Terms and phrases | Literature | Literary form -- Terminology | Reference works | Literature: history & criticism | Literary reference worksDDC classification: 803 BAL Summary: Providing clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma, this is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. This edition includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism.
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The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear and concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. It is now available in a new and expanded edition and includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. It also includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and entry-level web links. There is also a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms.

Rev. ed. of : The concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-361).

Providing clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma, this is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. This edition includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Pronunciation
  • Literary Terms A-Z
  • Further Reference

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This expanded and updated third edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (1990, CH, May'91, 28-4843; revised ed., 2001) explores about 1,200 terms of special difficulty to students and general readers. While concentrating largely on terms in English, the author (Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London) also has drawn on a variety of worldwide literary and critical traditions. Although the present volume strives to maintain the conciseness of the earlier editions, an additional 180 terms associated with various critical and theoretical movements, trends in American poetry, types of Spanish verse, crime fiction, and autobiographical/biographical writing supplement and update its contents. Additional sources of recommended readings, including relevant Web sites, enhance over 50 entries. Although entries infrequently explore the etymology of terms, the author helpfully identifies related concepts within entries that have been accorded separate treatment in the volume. The dictionary also includes useful pronunciation guides for more than 200 especially difficult terms. The book's bibliography lists more than a dozen works that explore the meaning, history, and use of terms in more detail. This handy, updated edition undoubtedly will prove invaluable to a new generation of readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers. K. Rosneck University of Wisconsin--Madison

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He edited The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992), and is the author of The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10 (1910-1940): The Modern Movement (2004), In Frankenstein's Shadow (1987), Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present (1996), and other works of literary history. He has edited, with Rob Morrison, Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine, and The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, and has written an introduction to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (all available in the Oxford World's Classics series).