Author: Chris Baldick
Author: Chris BaldickPublisher:
ISBN: 0199208271
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Chris BaldickPublisher:
ISBN: 0199208271
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
A Dictionary of Literary, Dramatic, and Cinematic Terms
Author: Sylvan BarnetPublisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780673391940
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A reference work which provides definitions of world literary terms in common use
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Chris BaldickPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019101821X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, 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 includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. New to this edition are recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website.
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Author: Peter AugerPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843318717
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, 'The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory' is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.
The Sterling Dictionary Of Literary Terms
Author: Amrita SharmaPublisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN: 9788173590696
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Peter ChildsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134234740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels. With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes: an exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique new definitions of contemporary critical issues such as Cybercriticism and Globalization complete coverage of traditional and radical approaches to the study and production of literature thorough accounts of critical terminology and analyses of key academic debates full cross-referencing throughout and suggestions for further reading. Covering both long-established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.
A Dictionary of Literary Devices
Author: Bernard Marie DupriezPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.'
A New Handbook of Literary Terms
Author: David MikicsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013522X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from classicism to postmodernism. The Handbook also supplies a helpful map to the intricate and at times confusing terrain of literary theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century: the author has designated a series of terms, from New Criticism to queer theory, that serves as a concise but thorough introduction to recent developments in literary study. Mikics’s Handbook is ideal for classroom use at all levels, from freshman to graduate. Instructors can assign individual entries, many of which are well-shaped essays in their own right. Useful bibliographical suggestions are given at the end of most entries. The Handbook’s enjoyable style and thoughtful perspective will encourage students to browse and learn more. Every reader of literature will want to own this compact, delightfully written guide.
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Chris BaldickPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191044075
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. Completely revised and updated, this edition also features brand-new entries on terms such as distant reading, graphic novels, middle generation, and misery memoir. Many new bibliographies have been added to entries and recommended web links are available via a companion website.
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Author: Bryan A. GarnerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142365
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.
