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The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 803
EAN: 9780198608837
ISBN: 0198608837
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 03, 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Editorial Review:
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. The dictionary also provides extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism. It offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and includes a new preface and terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, such as cyberpunk and antanaclasis. This second edition is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Student/Teacher resource
Great resource for any literature class. The terms are listed in alpha order and full, yet understandable definitions are given.
Rating: - quite useful
Although this dictionary may be quite simple, it is exactly this aspect that attracts me the most. As I teach Literature in English to non native speakers of the language, it is very good to have simple and clear definitions which help the students in their researches.
Rating:  - Pretty much useless...
This book should be avoided because it really lacks too many terms and thus serves no purpose. People who want a literary terms dictionary probably only want ONE since they are specific and who in their right mind wouldn't want a COMPLETE one?!?
In the preface the author even states that he only picked the most used definitions but again I ask the question why?? Another problem Baldick has is his word selection. Anybody with any business or need to pick this book up probably won't ... Read More
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