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Containing over 1000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. Among the book's features are: extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism; fully updated terms that have become prominent in the last few years; and advice on further reading for particular terms and for general terms.
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"This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it...as apt to the bedside table as to the desk."--Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Professor Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He edited 'The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales' (1992), and is the author of '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 Blackwoods' Magazine', and 'The Vampyre and Other Tales of Macabre', and has written an introduction to Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth
the Wanderer' (all available in the Oxford World's Classics series).
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- PublisherPerfection Learning Prebound
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0780761901
- ISBN 13 9780780761902
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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