The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

This dictionary provides succinct and often witty explanations of over one thousand potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from absurd to zeugma, from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque. While it is fully up to date with the terminologies of deconstruction and other modern schools of literary theory, it also offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history. Literary schools from Alexandrianism to Transcendentalism are included, along with dozens of terms from languages other than English. Adjectival forms and other derived words are displayed, and simple pronunciation guides are given for over two hundred difficult terms, making this thoroughly cross-referenced dictionary the most helpful of its kind for all readers of literature.

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.

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ISBN 10	0192828932
Title	The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author	Chris Baldick
Series	Oxford Paperback Reference Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1991-09-01
Number of pages	256
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