Alphabetically arranged and followed by an index of terms at the end, this handy reference of literary terms is bound to be of invaluable assistance to any student of English literature.
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
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.
Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream.
The many new and updated chapters make this edition the comprehensive, go-to resource for writers of research papers, and anyone citing sources, from business writers, technical writers, and freelance writers and editors to student writers ...
Contains a fully updated A-Z guide to over 1,200 definitions of terms from the fields of literary theory and criticism, rhetoric, versification and drama. Recommendations for further reading are included.
A reference work which provides definitions of world literary terms in common use
What Amy Lowell means by cadence is a retrospectively perceived rhythmic totality, an overall balance rather than the continuously ... Twentieth Century Literature in Retrospect (1971); Chris Beyers, A History ofFree Verse (2001).
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
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.
Literature: A Portable Anthology / Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms / Turn of the Screw