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1 online resource (804 pages) |
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Title page; Coopyright page; Contents; Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; A; Abbey Theatre; abecedarius; Abenteuerroman; abjection; abolitionist literature; ab ovo; abridged edition; absence/presence; absolutism; abstract; abstract poem; abusio; academic; academic drama; academy; acatalectic; accelerated rhyme; accent; accentual verse; accidence; acclamatio; acephalous; acervatio; acmeism; acroama; acronym; acrostic; acryology; act; actant; action; activism; actual reader; adage; adaptation |
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AddendumAddisonian; address; adjunctio; adnominatio; adonic; adversaria; adynaton; ae freislighe; Aeolic; Aeschylean; aesthetic distance; aestheticism; affect/affect theory/affective criticism; affectation; affective fallacy; affective stylistics; afflatus; African-American Studies; afsana; after-piece; agent, literary; age of reason; agitprop drama; agnominatio; agon; agrarian movement; aiodos; air; akhyana; alazôn; alba; album; Alcaics; Alcmanic verse; aleatory writing; alejandrino; aleluyas; Alexandrianism; alexandrine; alienation; alienation effect; alinéa; aljamiado; allegory; allegro |
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Alliterationalliterative prose; alliterative revival; alliterative verse; allonym; allusion; almanac; a lo divino; als ob; altar poem; altercatio; alterity; alternance des rimes; alternate rhyme; alternative literature; alternative theatre; ambiguity; amblysia; American Renaissance; amoebean; amour courtois; ampersand; amphiboly; amphibrach; amphigory; amphimacer; amphisbaenic rhyme; amplification; -ana; anabasis; anachorism; anachronism; anaclasis; anacoluthon; anacreóntica; anacreontic verse; anacrusis; anadiplosis; anagnorisis; anagogical; anagram; analects; analogue; analogy; analysis |
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Analytical languageanamnesis; ananym; anapaest; anaphora; anaphoric rhyme; anastrophe; anatomy; ancients and moderns; androgyny; anecdote; Anglo-Norman period; Anglo-Saxon period; angry young man; anisometric; annals; annotation; anomoiosis; anonymous; anonymuncule; antagonist; antanaclasis; anthimeria; anthology; anthropomorphism; antibacchius; anticlimax; anti-hero; antihumanism; anti-literature; antilogy; anti-masque; antimetabole; antinomy; anti-novel; antiphon; antiphrasis; anti-play; antipophora; antisagoge; antispast; antistoichon; antistrophe; antisyzygy; anti-theatre; antithesis |
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Antodeantonomasia; antonym; anxiety of influence; apestail; aphaeresis; aphesis; aphorism; apocalyptic literature; apocope; Apocrypha; Apollonian/Dionysian; apologue; apology; apophasis; apophthegm; aporia; aposiopesis; apostrophe; apparatus (or apparatus criticus); appositum; aptronym; Arcadia; archaism; archetypal criticism; archetype; archi-écriture; Archilochian verse; archive; arch-rhyme; argot; argument; argumentum ad; ars est celare artem; arsis and thesis; arte mayor; arte menor; art for art's sake; articulus; artificial comedy; art nouveau; arts, the seven liberal; Arzamas |
| Summary |
With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon's indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. Written in a clear and highly readable style Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day Broad intellectual and cultural range Expands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminology New material is particularly focused in areas such as gender studies and queer theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, narrative theory, and cu |
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Ascending rhythm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Criticism -- Terminology
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Literature -- Terminology.
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English language -- Terms and phrases.
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Literary form -- Terminology
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Criticism
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English language
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Literary form
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Literature
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Terminology
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Dictionaries
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Electronic book
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Habib, Rafey.
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Birchwood, Matthew
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Dines, Martin
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Fiske, Shanyn
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Velickovic, Vedrana
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| ISBN |
9781118326015 |
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1118326016 |
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