Download or read book Literature A Portable Anthology Researching and Writing Dictionary written by Janet E. Gardner and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Gary Carey and published by Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a corrido? What is the difference between a tanka, a choka and a renga? What does it mean when you're doing the dozens? What is a Bildungsroman? This dictionary of literary terms provides the student, scholar, librarian, or researcher with definitions, explanations, and models of the styles and forms of works of literature. Along with novel, tone, tragedy, and scansion are haiku, noh, griot, and other terms that derive from works long undervalued by the literary world. The examples come from a very broad field of authors--reflecting a spirit of inclusion of all people, races and literary traditions. The editors have elected to quote from literary examples that students are likely to have read and to which they most readily relate (for instance, Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was preferred over a work such as Paradise Lost, which fewer students have read and understand). Included is a listing of poets laureate to the Library of Congress, literature winners of the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, Booker McConnell Prize winners, a time line of world literature and an index.
Download or read book Thinking and Writing about Literature with Anthology and Bedford Glossary and Webster Dictionary written by Michael Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature A Portable Anthology written by Janet E. Gardner and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a handy size and a very affordable price, this collection offers a well-balanced selection of classic and contemporary literature — 40 stories, 200 poems, 9 plays — for the introductory literature or literature for composition course. The literature is chronologically arranged by genre and supported by informative and concise editorial matter, including a complete guide to writing about literature and, in the fourth edition, increased coverage of close reading. As a member of the popular Bedford/St. Martin's series of Portable Anthologies and Guides, this volume offers a trademark combination of high quality and great value.
Download or read book The Dictionary of the Book written by Sidney E. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Peter Childs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels. With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes: an exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique new definitions of contemporary critical issues such as Cybercriticism and Globalization complete coverage of traditional and radical approaches to the study and production of literature thorough accounts of critical terminology and analyses of key academic debates full cross-referencing throughout and suggestions for further reading. Covering both long-established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms written by Edward Quinn and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary explores more than 1,000 literary terms and themes-with 200 new to this edition. New entries include traditional literary terms and themes; terrorism and prison literature, and more; and popular subjects such as alcoholism, baseball, and vampirism.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Chris Baldick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Literature written by Janet E. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a handy size and a very affordable price, this collection offers a well-balanced selection of classic and contemporary literature -- 40 stories, 200 poems, 9 plays -- for the introductory literature course. The literature is chronologically arranged by genre and supported by informative and concise editorial matter, including a complete guide to writing about literature which features significantly more reading coverage in this edition. This volume in the popular Bedford/St. Martin's series of Portable Anthologies and Guides offers a trademark combination of high quality and great value.
Download or read book Current Literary Terms written by A.F. Scott and published by Springer. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to giving etymology and concise definitions from all branches of literature, extensive quotations are included.
Download or read book Dictionary of World Literary Terms written by Joseph T. Shipley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and detailed notes on the history and development of the literatures and literary movements of the world. Arranged in alphabetical order for easy use, the entries range from anti-hero to zeugma, from classicism to the New Criticism, and from esoteric or archaic terms to contemporary theatre and poetry. This book will be indispensable for writers, students, scholars, researchers, librarians and everyone who has a literary curiosity.
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Describer s Dictionary written by David Grambs and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of the observable world features definition-first organization; passages from the writings of James, Updike, and others; and words concerning shapes, textures, colors, terrain, and more.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Devices written by Bernard Marie Dupriez and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'
Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Martin Gray and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 000547071 - 99/738 000547080 - 99/739.
Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Literature written by Robert Richards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary was designed, not simply for the scholar, but for the general reader who needs more enlightenment about a specific American author or movement than a mere catalogue of facts can give him. The scholar has read whole books about Walt Whitman, and uses the dictionary merely to refresh his memory concerning a title or a date. The general reader wants a concise account of how Whitman lived, what he was like as a person, what prompted him to write poetry, why this poetry is now considered to be important, and a history of Whitman appraisals. On the other hand, the average reader would prefer not be confused by meaningless facts, obscure data, or scholastic debate. The scholar or the student, the editor or the teacher, will find in this dictionary almost any fact concerning American literature that he will ever need. The general reader will find, in addition to facts, valuable apprehensions concerning our American literary heritage.
Download or read book Dictionary of Literature in English written by Neil King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is a guide to the key authors, concepts, and terms used in the study of literature written in English. Each entry begins with a straightforward definition, and is followed by explanation and examples. Each writer is defined by type, significant preoccupation and/or style, and a selection of notable works. There are a number of entries on writers in a foreign language who have had a major influence on literature in English. One of the most important uses of this book is as a cross-referencing tool. Italicized cross-referenced entries form an interrelated web, presenting a unified overall picture of particular areas of interest.
