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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms / Chris Baldick.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford quick referencePublication details: United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.Edition: 4th edDescription: x, 392 p. ; hb. 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780198715443
Other title:
  • Dictionary of literary terms
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 803 23 BAL
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Contents:
Preface Pronunciation Literary Terms A-Z Bibliography
Summary: 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.
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Preface
Pronunciation
Literary Terms A-Z
Bibliography

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-392).

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