FIFTH EDITION
J.A. Cuddon & M. A. R. Habib
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is family established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied Beld of literary criticism. Now in tradition remains the mou comprehensive and accessible work of its kind, and is invaluable for students, teachers and general readers alike
- Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia, iamb, zeugma) and critical vocabulary lapora, binary opposition interval
- Provides completely new entries covering several areas of literary theory, including gender studies, postcolonial theory. Asian liter atures, world literature and dub poetry
Explores literary movement room , romanticism vorticism and schools of literary theory
- Covers genres elegy, folio, pastoral and literary forms (haiku, ottava rima, sonnet
Accomplishes come wonders of literary history generously and urbanely compiled The New York Times