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Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author: Chris Baldick
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-03-20
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 019101821X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Chris Baldick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: Chris Baldick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780198608837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides explanations of literary terms and includes information on such topics as drama, rhetoric, and textual criticism.
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides explanations of literary terms and includes information on such topics as drama, rhetoric, and textual criticism.
Author: Chris Baldick
Publisher: Oxford Quick Reference
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0198715447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains a fully updated A-Z guide to over 1,200 definitions of terms from the fields of literary theory and criticism, rhetoric, versification and drama. Recommendations for further reading are included.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford Quick Reference. This book was released on 2015 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a fully updated A-Z guide to over 1,200 definitions of terms from the fields of literary theory and criticism, rhetoric, versification and drama. Recommendations for further reading are included.
Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-07-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1134234759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering both established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, this is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Peter Childs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering both established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, this is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.
Author: Bernard Marie Dupriez
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780802068033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising 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.'
Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Devices written by Bernard Marie Dupriez and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: Marlé Hammond
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0192515306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms covers the most important literary terms relevant to classical and modern Arabic literature. Its 300+ entries include technical terms and rhetorical devices, themes and motifs, concepts, historical eras, literary schools and movements, forms and genres, figures and institutions. Defining terms such as 'root-play', highlighting schools such as the Mahjar poets, and exploring concepts such as 'imaginary evocation', the dictionary introduces its readers to the specificities of the Arabic literary tradition. The dictionary is intended to meet the needs of the growing number of students studying Arabic in the English-speaking world, whose studies include Arabic literature from an early stage. This reference resource equips them to understand the nuances and complexities of the texts they encounter. It is an invaluable reference work for students of Arabic literature.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices written by Marlé Hammond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms covers the most important literary terms relevant to classical and modern Arabic literature. Its 300+ entries include technical terms and rhetorical devices, themes and motifs, concepts, historical eras, literary schools and movements, forms and genres, figures and institutions. Defining terms such as 'root-play', highlighting schools such as the Mahjar poets, and exploring concepts such as 'imaginary evocation', the dictionary introduces its readers to the specificities of the Arabic literary tradition. The dictionary is intended to meet the needs of the growing number of students studying Arabic in the English-speaking world, whose studies include Arabic literature from an early stage. This reference resource equips them to understand the nuances and complexities of the texts they encounter. It is an invaluable reference work for students of Arabic literature.
Author: Peter Auger
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0857286706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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).
Download or read book The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory written by Peter Auger and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: Susan Wallace
Publisher: Oxford Quick Reference
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199679398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Up-to-date coverage of all aspects of education"--Cover.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Education written by Susan Wallace and published by Oxford Quick Reference. This book was released on 2015 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Up-to-date coverage of all aspects of education"--Cover.
Author: Peter Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780198609520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow available as part of the Oxford Paperback Reference series, this new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner. The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt Lads don't write novels. They're down the pub. - Martin Amis on Ladlit You reach an age when every sentence you write bumps into one you wrote thirty years ago. - John Updike Reading . . . is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. - Maureen Howard There were no innocent blondes in crime fiction. - Ed McBain Never make your publisher pay the postage is the first rule of literary life. - Julian Barnes
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations written by Peter Kemp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available as part of the Oxford Paperback Reference series, this new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner. The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt Lads don't write novels. They're down the pub. - Martin Amis on Ladlit You reach an age when every sentence you write bumps into one you wrote thirty years ago. - John Updike Reading . . . is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. - Maureen Howard There were no innocent blondes in crime fiction. - Ed McBain Never make your publisher pay the postage is the first rule of literary life. - Julian Barnes
