Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 0199208271
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Chris BaldickPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019101821X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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.
Author: Chris BaldickThe Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Chris BaldickPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191044075
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices
Author: Marlé HammondPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192515306
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms covers the most important literary terms relevant to classical and modern Arabic literature. Its 300+ entries include technical terms and rhetorical devices, themes and motifs, concepts, historical eras, literary schools and movements, forms and genres, figures and institutions. Defining terms such as 'root-play', highlighting schools such as the Mahjar poets, and exploring concepts such as 'imaginary evocation', the dictionary introduces its readers to the specificities of the Arabic literary tradition. The dictionary is intended to meet the needs of the growing number of students studying Arabic in the English-speaking world, whose studies include Arabic literature from an early stage. This reference resource equips them to understand the nuances and complexities of the texts they encounter. It is an invaluable reference work for students of Arabic literature.
A Dictionary of Literary Devices
Author: Bernard Marie DupriezPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
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.'
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Author: Peter AugerPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857286706
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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).
NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Kathleen MornerPublisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780844254654
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
Author: J. A. CuddonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0141047151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'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)
Literary Terms
Author: BarCharts, Inc.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572225886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Comprehensive list of styles and techniques writers use to transmit their ideas. This 4-page laminated guide is arranged alphabetically and contains hundreds of useful up to date definitions and terms
