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 1000 potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from "absurd" to "zeugma", from ancient "dithyramb" to contemporary "dub poetry", from the popular "bodice-ripper" to the aristocratic "masque". While it is fully up to date with the terminologies of post-structuralism and other modern schools of literary theory, it offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric and literary history. Literary schools and movements from Alexandrianism to transcendentalism are included, along with dozens of terms from languages and literatures other than English. Adjectival forms and other derived words are displayed, and simple pronunciation guides are given for over 200 difficult 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.

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ISBN 13	9780198117339
ISBN 10	0198117337
Title	The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author	Chris Baldick
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1990-09-01
Number of pages	256
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