The routledge dictionary of literary terms 3rd edition. It is an indispensable asset for understanding such concepts as deconstruction, russian formalism, feminist criticism, psychoanalytic. Literary terms page 4 diction a speaker or writers choice of words. Oxford dictionary of literary terms oxford reference. When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work. The term is applied to a number of works in drama and prose fiction which have in common the sense that the human condition is essentially absurd, and that this condition can be adequately rep resented only in works of literature that are themselves absurd. The penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary.
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It focuses particularly on the material i most frequently teach classical and medieval literature, the history of the english language, and science fiction narratives. He edited the oxford book of gothic tales 1992, and is the author of in frankensteins shadow 1987, criticism and literary theory 1890 to the present 1996, and other works of literary history. This is a book of hard words alphabetically arranged and briefly explained. This is an expansion of the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than on universal psychological archetypes or myths. Bringing together original entries written by such celebrated theorists as terry eagleton and malcolm bradbury with new definitions of current terms and controversies, this is the essential reference.
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