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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature: Oxford Quick Reference

Editat de Dinah Birch, Katy Hooper
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2012
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in literature.For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction, biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature.The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website.Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all other readers of literature in English.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199608218
ISBN-10: 0199608210
Pagini: 832
Dimensiuni: 131 x 196 x 49 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:4 Rev ed.
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Quick Reference

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Review from previous edition This is a scrupulously produced, smartly laid-out, academically serious and at the same time relishably browsable book.
a work of extraordinary value ... No library, no matter how small, can claim not to be able to afford at least one copy of this invaluable and almost incomparable, reference book. Another authoritative reference work of remarkable value will be welcome news to those libraries which found themselves unable to purchase the full edition.
No guide could come more classic than The Oxford Companion to English Literature ... the literary reference source of first resort ... indispensable ... . Contemporary international writing is excellently covered ... excellent chronology
Always good company
Everybody with an interest in English literature will want to own it
Remains irresistible
Continues to stand out as distinctive, authoritative, and a work of excellence
Increasing user-friendliness and a nice "up to date" feel
Sumptuous volume.
Detailed, clear and lively accounts.
A classic now made contemporary, this really is a boon companion.
Birch and the contributors have done an excellent job.
Excellence is in the details.
It offers companionable assistance; it's your pal in literary need.
It is a fascinating, compact and readable reference work.
accessible, readable
If you are at all interested in literature, then this is your essential reference book

Notă biografică

Dinah Birch is Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), and Our Victorian Education (2007).Katy Hooper is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library and Assistant Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7/e.Previous editions of the Concise Oxford Companion to Literature were edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.