Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

Author: [UK] Poldiuk
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: This dictionary provides detailed explanations of over 1,000 literary terms, ranging from ancient odes to contemporary black vernacular poetry; from popular new romantic stories to aristocratic masques, broadly covering traditional drama, poetry, rhetoric, and literary history; includes new terms from various schools of contemporary literary theory; explains commonly used foreign terms related to literature and language; offers variant usages for specialized terms, and provides phonetic annotations for difficult-to-pronounce words.