A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)

A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)

by Chris Baldick (Editor)

Synopsis

Containing over 1000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. Among the book's features are: extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism; fully updated terms that have become prominent in the last few years; and advice on further reading for particular terms and for general terms.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: 2
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 01 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 019280118X
ISBN 13: 9780192801180

Media Reviews
This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it...as apt to the bedside table as to the desk. --Times Literary Supplement


This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it...as apt to the bedside table as to the desk. --Times Literary Supplement

This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it...as apt to the bedside table as to the desk. --Times Literary Supplement


This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it...as apt to the bedside table as to the desk. --Times Literary Supplement


Author Bio

Professor 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 '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 Blackwoods' Magazine', and 'The Vampyre and Other Tales of Macabre', and has written an introduction to Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer' (all available in the Oxford World's Classics series).