num_pages: 372
description: 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 andschools 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.
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title: The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
publisher: OUP Oxford