The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

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  • ISBN: 0199208271
  • Category : Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 373


The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

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  • Author: Chris Baldick
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 019101821X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 377

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, and schools 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.


The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

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  • Author: Chris Baldick
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780198608837
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

Provides explanations of literary terms and includes information on such topics as drama, rhetoric, and textual criticism.


The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English

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  • Author: Henry Watson Fowler
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  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1092


Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Author: Angus Stevenson
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0199601119
  • Category : Reference
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1728

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is one of the most popular choices in Oxford's renowned dictionary line. This Luxury Edition is perfect for anyone looking to invest in a reliable resource for home, school, or office. It includes unique features such as cut thumb tabs, printed endpapers, ribbon marker, with coloured head and tailbands making it a centerpiece for all bookshelves. This centenary edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary Luxury Edition presents the most accurate picture of English today. It contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, providing superb coverage of contemporary English, including rare, historical, and archaic terms, scientific and technical vocabulary, and English from around the world. The dictionary has been updated with hundreds of new words--including sub-prime, social networking, and carbon footprint--all based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus. In addition, the dictionary features an engaging new center section, with quick-reference word lists (containing, for example, lists of Fascinating Words and Onomatopoeic Words), and a revised and updated English Uncovered supplement, which examines interesting facts about the English language. Sprinkled throughout the text are intriguing Word Histories, detailing the origins and development of numerous words. The volume also retains such popular features as the hundreds of usage notes which give advice on tricky vocabulary and pointers to help you improve your use of English. Finally, the dictionary contains full appendices on topics such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language (from formal to slang), plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling. This Luxury Edition also includes 12 months' of access to Oxford Dictionaries Online at oxforddictionaries.com.


Oxford Dictionary of Ballet

Oxford Dictionary of Ballet

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  • Author: Horst Koegler
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  • Category : Ballet
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 484

Ben ci dian shou lu guo qu 400 nian zhong guan yu ba lei wu ge ge fang mian de 5000 yu tiao mu, bao gua ba lei wu yan yuan, bian wu zhe, zuo qu jia, wu dao she ji zhe deng.


A Dictionary of Literary Devices

A Dictionary of Literary Devices

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  • Author: Bernard Marie Dupriez
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 9780802068033
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 572

Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.'


The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

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  • Author: Margaret Drabble
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 676

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.


NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms

NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms

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  • Author: Kathleen Morner
  • Publisher: Contemporary Books
  • ISBN: 9780844254654
  • Category : Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms contains nearly 600 terms, concepts, and critical theories--all defined, explained, and illustrated in clear easy-to-understand language.


The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics

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  • Author: Peter Hugoe Matthews
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 436

This work is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available. Written by Peter Matthews, Professor of Linguistics at Cambridge University, the book provides concise and informative entries across the whole field of linguistics form phonetics to formal semantics andincludes world-wide coverage of languages and language families.