A Dictionary Of Literary Terms
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
| Author | : Chris Baldick |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2008-03-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 019101821X |
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 Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
| Author | : Peter Childs |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780415340175 |
Covering both established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, this 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 Dupriez |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 1991-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780802068033 |
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 Glossary of Literary Terms
| Author | : Meyer Howard Abrams |
| Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781413002188 |
This text defines and discusses terms, critical theories, and points of view that are commonly used to classify, analyse, interpret, and write the history of works of literature. The Glossary presents a series of essays in alphabetic order.
Literary Terms
| Author | : Karl E. Beckson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 1989-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0374521778 |
Explains and gives examples of over 900 literary terms.
NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms
| Author | : Kathleen Morner |
| Publisher | : Contemporary Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780844254654 |
NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms contains nearly 600 terms, concepts, and critical theories--all defined, explained, and illustrated in clear easy-to-understand language.
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
| Author | : Peter Auger |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0857286706 |
This Dictionary is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today, thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope. The definitions are lively and precise in equipping students and general readers with a genuinely useful critical vocabulary. It identifies the thinking and controversies surrounding terms, and offers fresh insights and directions for future reading. It does this with the help of extensive cross-referencing, indexes and up-to-date bibliography (with recommended websites).
The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2013-12-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1770484329 |
This compact guide covers a wide variety of terms commonly used in academic discussions of poetry, fiction, drama, rhetoric, and literary theory. Definitions are kept concise; examples are abundant. The coverage ranges from traditional topics through to recent scholarship, and the straightforward entries aim to enable students to learn new terms with confidence. The pocket glossary brings together entries from a variety of Broadview publications—including The Broadview Anthology of British Literature and The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction—and adds a number of new entries.
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
| Author | : J. A. Cuddon |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-09-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0141047151 |
'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary Supplement The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism. Now in its fifth edition, it remains the most comprehensive and accessible work of its kind, and is invaluable for students, teachers and general readers alike. - Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia, iamb, zeugma) and critical jargon (aporia, binary opposition, intertextuality) - Explores literary movements (neoclassism, romanticism, vorticism) and schools of literary theory - Covers genres (elegy, fabliau, pastoral) and literary forms (haiku, ottava rima, sonnet)
