The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

by Chris Baldick (Editor), Chris Baldick (Editor), Chris Baldick (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $5.85

  This dictionary provides succinct and often witty explanations of 1000 potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from absurd to zeugma , from ancient dithyramb to contemporary dub poetry , from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque . While it is fully up to date with the terminologies of post-structuralism and other modern schools of literary theory, it offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric and literary history. Literary schools and movements from Alexandrianism to transcendentalism are included, along with dozens of terms from languages and literatures other than English. Adjectival forms and other derived words are displayed, and simple pronunciation guides are given for over 200 difficult terms.

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.28

  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.