The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

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Provides succinct explanations of 1000 potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from "absurd" to "zeugma", from ancient "dithyramb" to modern "dub poetry".

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

This dictionary provides succinct and often witty explanations of over 1000 potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from "absurd" to "zeugma". Fully cross-referenced, the entries cover prose, verse, drama, and literary theory from ancient Greece to contemporary schools, and give details of adjectival forms, derivations, and terms from languages and literatures other than English. The book is aimed at general readers; students (from the 6th Form upwards) and teachers of English literature; and those studying classical and modern European literature.

Chris Baldick is a Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He edited The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992), and is the author of The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10 (1910-1940): The Modern Movement (2004), In Frankenstein's Shadow (1987), Criticism and Literary Theory
1890 to the Present (1996), and other works of literary history. He has edited, with Rob Morrison, Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine, and The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, and has written an introduction to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (all available in the Oxford World's
Classics series).
SKU GOR001193153
ISBN 13 9780192828934
ISBN 10 0192828932
Title The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author Chris Baldick
Condition good
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1991-09-01
Number of pages 256
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