num_pages: 304
description: Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext , multi-accentuality , and postmodernism . The dictionary also provides extensive coverage oftraditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism. It offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and includes a new preface and terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, such as cyberpunk and antanaclasis . Thissecond edition is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels.
language: English
title: The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms
titlecomplete: The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)
genres: Writing, Academic, Literary Criticism, Education, Literature, Nonfiction, School, Reference, Dictionaries
ratings_count: 230
publisher: Oxford University Press