Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm
Reihe: Oxford Paperback Reference
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm
Reihe: Oxford Paperback Reference
ISBN: 978-0-19-860883-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Key Features:The most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels
- 30,000 copies sold of second edition
- 'This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokeness make it. as apt to the bedside table as to the desk: Dr Baldick is a Brewer for specialized tastes' Times Literary Supplement
- 'fun to read. first rate' Globe and Mail
- Extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism
- Terms from languages and literatures other than English
Description:
Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. It also offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and also in a useful appendix under general categories such as Literary and Cultural Theory, Drama, and Linguistics. New to this reissue is a clearer presentation of metrical patterns.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0-19-280118-X
Zielgruppe
General, students (from A-level upwards) and teachers of English literature, those studying classical and modern European literature.
