A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

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.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

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.

Chris Baldick is an English professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has produced various books of literary history, including The Modern Movement (Oxford, 2004), the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (2008), and Decadence: An Annotated Anthology (Manchester, 2012), which he co-edited with Jane Desmarais.

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780192801180
ISBN 10 019280118X
Title A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author Chris Baldick
Series Oxford Quick Reference Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2001-11-01
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.