The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0199208271
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0199208271
Author : Neil King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781579583811
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019101821X
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 : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802836342
Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.
Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195218893
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Author : Marion Wynne-Davies
Publisher :
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780747533436
This revised and updated edition covers English literature, from Chaucerian poetry to the novels of Martin Amis, and contains entries for works, authors, journals and literary movements.
Author : Peter Auger
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0857286706
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).
Author : Bernard Marie Dupriez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802068033
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.'
Author : Michael Stapleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1983-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521256476
Author : Jean-Charles Seigneuret
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This index is a veritable who's who of the greats of Western literature. . . . The Board recommends it for every collection whose users conduct analytical studies of literature. Reference Books Bulletin The powerful hold that literature exercises is based primarily on recognition--the reader's ability to identify with others through shared human concerns that transcend ttace, time, and cultural boundaries. These universal themes, and how they have been treated in literature from the classical period to the present, are the subject of the critical essays comprising this volume. A fascinating resource for students and general readers and an essential research tool for scholars in literature, it is the first thematic reference on this scale to be published in English. The dictionary consists of 143 essays contributed by 98 specialists in world literature. Topics covered include themes relating to adventure, family life, the supernatural, eroticism, status, humor, idealism, terror, and many other categories of human experience. Each entry begins with a defintion and a sketch on the origin and historical background of the literary theme. The topical essay discusses the significance and occurrence of the theme in world literature and supplies information on geographical area, genre, style, and chronology. Entries conclude with a selected bibliography of scholarship in the area. A cross-index to themes and motifs will enable the reader to find information on secondary or related topics. Convenient to use and presented in a standardized format, this major new reference will be an important acquisition for libraries with collections in English, American, and world literature.