Essential Literary Terms

Essential Literary Terms

Author: Sharon Hamilton

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780393928372

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Essential Literary Terms offers clear, concise definitions over 220 must-know literary terms for introductory students.


A Glossary of Literary Terms

A Glossary of Literary Terms

Author: Meyer Howard Abrams

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781413002188

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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

Literary Terms

Author: Karl E. Beckson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1989-06

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0374521778

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Explains and gives examples of over 900 literary terms.


The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

Author: Peter Childs

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780415340175

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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.


The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

Author: Chris Baldick

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-03-20

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 019101821X

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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.


Handbook of Literary Terms

Handbook of Literary Terms

Author: X. J. Kennedy

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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From the author team of the discipline's most widely used literature anthology, this accessible and instructive guide introduces students to the language of literary study. Featuring an engaging and accessible writing style, this supplemental reference manual for the introductory student has over 400 entries and serves to demystify literature and the terms, techniques, and analysis tools that literary scholars use. NEW TO THIS EDITION: Over 25 additional entries, covering more contemporary terms (blogging, etc). Selected illustrations throughout.


A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory

A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory

Author: Jeremy Hawthorn

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780340692226

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Taking words from a variety of sources, and from a range of different languages and cultures, it is little wonder that contemporary literary theory poses peculiar difficulties of usage and understanding. This third edition of Hawthorn's acclaimed glossary contains a host of new terms, revises many of the previous entries (sometimes very substantially), and includes both an expanded bibliography and detailed recommendations for further reading.