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The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
by Ross C. Murfin, Supryia M. Ray

ISBN 0312259107 (0-312-25910-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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The Bedford Glossary includes lengthy (and easy-to-follow) discussions of ideas including such biggies as cultural studies, deconstruction, feminist criticism, gender criticism, irony, Marxist criticism, the new historicism, poststructuralism, psychological criticism and psychoanalytic criticism, and reader-response criticism. More obscure terms--anagnorisis, epithalamium, Menippean satire, kenning--receive shorter but equally careful treatment. This is a clear and comprehensive reference for academics, intellectuals, and anyone else who wants to hold forth intelligently on subjects literary and critical. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia

ISBN 0061810886 (0-06-181088-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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What does it mean to have the voice of a stentor? Where is John o'Groat's House? Ever heard of a beast epic, or the Jindyworobak Movement? And what is the origin of the word "abracadabra"?
The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have; just glimpsing it on the shelf reminds one of how very much there is that one does not know. The thousands of entries in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia cover anything and nearly everything having to do with literature. The book includes biographies of authors, summaries of books and plays, depictions of characters and mythological figures, explications of literary terms and movements, and, well, a whole bunch of other irresistible stuff that is somewhat quirky and utterly engrossing. (For the curious: a stentor's voice is a very loud voice; John o'Groat's House is considered to be the most northerly point in Great Britain; in a beast epic, "the central characters are animals and the tone is often satirical"; the Jindyworobak Movement is "a school of Australian poets demanding fidelity to Australian environment and the employment of aboriginal themes"; and abracadabra is a cabalistic charm.) [via]
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Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
by Bruce Murphy, William Rose Benet

ISBN 006270110X (0-06-270110-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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What does it mean to have the voice of a stentor? Where is John o'Groat's House? Ever heard of a beast epic, or the Jindyworobak Movement? And what is the origin of the word "abracadabra"?
The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have; just glimpsing it on the shelf reminds one of how very much there is that one does not know. The thousands of entries in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia cover anything and nearly everything having to do with literature. The book includes biographies of authors, summaries of books and plays, depictions of characters and mythological figures, explications of literary terms and movements, and, well, a whole bunch of other irresistible stuff that is somewhat quirky and utterly engrossing. (For the curious: a stentor's voice is a very loud voice; John o'Groat's House is considered to be the most northerly point in Great Britain; in a beast epic, "the central characters are animals and the tone is often satirical"; the Jindyworobak Movement is "a school of Australian poets demanding fidelity to Australian environment and the employment of aboriginal themes"; and abracadabra is a cabalistic charm.) [via]
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A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
by S. Foster Damon, Morris Eaves

ISBN 0874514363 (0-87451-436-3)
Softcover, University Press of New England

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William Blake, poet, artist, and mystic, created a vast multidimensional universe through his verse and art. Spun from a fabric of symbolism and populated by a host of complex characters, Blake's comprehensive world has provided endless inspiration to subsequent generations. For the reader of Blake, background knowledge of his symbolism is a necessity. In this volume, first published in 1965, S. Foster Damon, father of modern Blake studies and a professor at Brown University until his death, has assembled all references to particular symbols or aspects of Blake's work and life, so that readers can see the entire spectrum of Blake's thought on a variety of topics. [via]
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Books in Print 1997-98

ISBN 0835239365 (0-8352-3936-5)
Hardcover, Rr Bowker Llc

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The Cambridge History of German Literature
by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

ISBN 0521785731 (0-521-78573-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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This is the first book to provide a complete German literary history up to the Unification of Germany in 1990. It is a history for our times: well-known authors and movements are set in a wider literary, cultural and political context, standard judgments are reexamined where appropriate, and a new prominence is given to writing by women. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student; titles and quotations are translated, and there is an extensive bibliography. [via]
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The Chicago Manual of Style

ISBN 0226104036 (0-226-10403-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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What can we say? This weighty tome is the essential reference for all who work with words--writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, publishers, and students. Discover who Ibid is, how to deftly avoid the split infinitive, and how to format your manuscripts to impress any professor or editor (no, putting it in a blue plastic folder is just not enough). [via]
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The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywriters
by University of Chicago

ISBN 0226103900 (0-226-10390-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press

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Writers Style Manual Grammar Check Guide- For English Majors and Wordsmith's this book is the magic spell put on an author's works. Here's your Charm- it weighs only 3lbs. [via]
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Companion To Narnia
by Paul F. Ford

ISBN 0062503413 (0-06-250341-3)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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Companion to Chronicles of Narnia a series of 7 fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis. [via]
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Companion To Narnia: A Complete Guide to the Magical World of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia
by Paul F. Ford, Lorinda Bryan Cauley, Madeleine L'Engle

ISBN 0060791276 (0-06-079127-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Step into the Wardrobe
This peerless companion has served as an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia for twenty-five years and was used by the cast and crew of the major motion picture The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. From Aslan, the Great Lion, to Zardeenah, the mysterious lady of the night, this comprehensive, accessible book contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged and indexed entries covering all the characters, events, places, and themes that Lewis brilliantly wove into his timeless and magical world.
For readers of all ages, this is the perfect guide for the enchanted world of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature
by Laurie Rozakis

ISBN 0028633784 (0-02-863378-4)
Softcover, Alpha Books

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You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature teaches you all about the rich tradition of American prose and poetry, so you can fully appreciate its magnificent diversity. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
by Chris Baldick

ISBN 019280118X (0-19-280118-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This dictionary provides succinct and often witty explanations of over one thousand potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from absurd to zeugma, from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque. While it is fully up to date with the terminologies of deconstruction and other modern schools of literary theory, it also offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history. Literary schools from Alexandrianism to Transcendentalism are included, along with dozens of terms from languages other than English. Adjectival forms and other derived words are displayed, and simple pronunciation guides are given for over two hundred difficult terms, making this thoroughly cross-referenced dictionary the most helpful of its kind for all readers of literature. [via]
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A Dictionary of Literary Terms
by J.A. Cuddon

ISBN 0140511121 (0-14-051112-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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A Dictionary of Literary Terms
by Chris Baldick

ISBN 0198608837 (0-19-860883-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. The dictionary also provides extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism. It offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and includes a new preface and terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, such as cyberpunk and antanaclasis. This second edition is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels. [via]
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A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
by J. A. Cuddon, C. E. Preston

ISBN 0631202714 (0-631-20271-4)
Hardcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited

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In the new edition of this work many of the 2000 terms it defines have completely revised entries, and there are several hundred new entries. The coverage of the dictionary has been expanded to cover literary theory and the critical developments that have grown up since the first edition of the book was published in 1976. Now, in addition to its informative entries on the language of literature and literary criticism, from Bascarole and courtesy books to sprung rhythm and Vorticism, the dictionary contains entries on theorietical topics from aporia to Yale School. Amongst these are Freudian and psychoanalytic criticism, formalism, grammatology, hermeneutics, post-modernism and structuralism. [via]
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The Friendly Charles Dickens : Being Good Natured GT Art and Adventures Man Who Invented Scrooge
by Norrie Epstein

ISBN 0140153829 (0-14-015382-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The author of "The Friendly Shakespeare" now strips away the polite veneer of Victorian society to reveal Charles Dickens's life and times in all their squalor and glory. Includes a guide to all the author's work, interviews with Dickens aficionados from Patrick Stewart to biographer Phyllis Rose, a highly opinionated filmography, and information sidebars. Art throughout. [via]
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The Friendly Dickens : Being a Good-Natured Guide to the Art and Adventures of the Man Who Invented Scrooge
by Norrie Epstein

ISBN 0670839434 (0-670-83943-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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You might have read him in class, but the Victorians read Charles Dickens like we watch Melrose Place, and The Friendly Dickens will show you why. It is the ultimate pop reference to the Dickensian world of shrouded sex and ostentatious death, a book that will have you running in delight to dust off your Dickens. Norrie Epstein--whose The Friendly Shakespeare was called by The New York Times "spirited, informative and provocative"--opens up Dickens's life and times in all its squalor and glory, including his rise to greatness and occasional lapses from grace. She considers his works, major and minor, in decided lively fashion, not just reading, but reading between the lines: * Was Oliver Twist's Fagin a pederast? * What made A Christmas Carol's Tiny Tim so darn tiny? * How many of Dickens's child characters met an untimely end? (Hint: plenty.) Full of humor, skepticism, and expert opinions, with eye- catching illustrations, plenty of quotes, and sidebars on nearly every page, you will quickly become a Dickens authority--even if you've never read a word. [via]
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The Friendly Shakespeare
by Norrie Epstein

ISBN 0140138862 (0-14-013886-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A readable guide to the works of Shakespeare includes solid, but never too simplistic, information about the Bard's language, life, and loves for those who want to learn about Shakespeare without wading through a morass of academic criticism. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. [via]
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A Glossary of Literary Terms
by M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham

ISBN 1413002188 (1-4130-0218-8)
Softcover, Heinle

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First published in 1957, A Glossary of Literary Terms contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students. [via]
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A Handbook to Literature
by C. Hugh Holman, William Harmon

ISBN 0131344420 (0-13-134442-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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For undergraduate/graduate-level literature courses. This comprehensive text is the definitive reference text on literature and literary criticism in English. The text itself is an alphabetical listing of the terms that pertain to literature in English. Now in its eighth edition, it has been used by more than one million students. [via]
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A History of Greek Literature
by Moses Hadas

ISBN 0231017677 (0-231-01767-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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A History of Latin Literature
by Moses Hadas

ISBN 0231018487 (0-231-01848-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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Honey for a Child's Heart
by Gladys M. Hunt

ISBN 0310263808 (0-310-26380-8)
Softcover, Zondervan Pub. House

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Honey for a Childs Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life
by Gladys M. Hunt

ISBN 0310242460 (0-310-24246-0)
Softcover, Zondervan

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Family favorite now revised and updated, including an annotated list of books for ages 0-12 Everything parents need to know to find the best books for their children Since its publication in 1969, this has been an essential guide for parents wanting to find the best books for their children. Now in its fourth edition, Honey for a Child's Heart discusses everything from the ways reading affects both children's view of the world and their imagination to how to choose good books. Illustrated with drawings from dozens of favorites, it includes an indexed and updated list of the best new books on the market and the classics that you want your children to enjoy. Author Gladys Hunt's tastes are broad, her advice is rooted in experience, and her suggestions will enrich the cultural and spiritual life of any home. [via]
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Literary Research Guide: A Guide to Reference Sources for the Study of Literatures in English and Related Topics
by James L. Harner

ISBN 0873525590 (0-87352-559-0)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
by James L. Harner

ISBN 0873525744 (0-87352-574-4)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide, which Choice calls "the standard guide in the field," evaluates important reference materials in English studies. Since the publication of the first edition in 1989, tens of thousands of students and educators have used the Guide as an aid to scholarly research. Harner has added entries describing resources published since 1997 and has revised nearly half the entries from the third edition. The fourth edition contains more than 1,200 entries, which discuss an additional 1,494 books, articles, and electronic resources and cite 729 reviews. New entries reflect the expansion of literary study into emerging fields (gay, lesbian, and transgendered studies and postcolonial theory); this edition also lists reliable Web sites sponsored by academic institutions and learned societies. The annotations describe the type of work, its scope, its major limitations, and its organization present parts of a typical entry in the work list the type and number of indexes evaluate coverage, organization, and accuracy explain the work's uses in research cite significant reviews that more fully define the importance or uses of the work or its place in the scholarly tradition note related works, including supplementary, complementary, or superseded ones not accorded separate entries in the Guide The Guide concludes with name, title, and subject indexes. [via]
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Literature Lover's Book of Lists: Serious Trivia for the Bibliophile
by Judie L. H. Strouf

ISBN 0735201218 (0-7352-0121-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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There are so many literary goodies in Judie L.H. Strouf's Literature Lover's Book of Lists that one gets a bit breathless trying to get across the full range of pleasures that await. Basically, this is a book of many lists, the sort of lists a lover of literature might seek and relish. There are lists of literature types and literary terminology, Nobel Prize winners and influential writers, schools of criticism and biblical allusions. There are reading lists of bestselling books, children's books, and lists of books for every genre of literature imaginable, from autobiography to Western masters. Strouf has a full section on poetry, as well, with lists pertaining to major poets from around the world, plus examples of ballad, elegy, and limerick. Drama is treated as thoroughly, as are literary periods, literary themes, and--of course--literary references. A brilliant reference itself for any student of literature, Strouf's opus is also an addictively browsable book, perfect for long car trips, Sunday mornings over coffee, and romantic evenings by the fire. It's every bibliophile's dream. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Literature Lover's Book of Lists : Serious Trivia for the Bibliophile
by Ross, Stangl, Judie L. Strouf

ISBN 0735200173 (0-7352-0017-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Press

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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
by Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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The new edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers and includes detailed coverage using computers for research and citing electronic publications. [via]
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
by Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
Hardcover, Modern Language Association

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Murder Ink
by Dilys Winn

ISBN 0894807773 (0-89480-777-3)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co

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Perfect book for the mystery lover. [via]
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Murder Ink
by Outlet

ISBN 0517347857 (0-517-34785-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Thoughtful and amusing articles about the mystery genre by authors, critics and fans. [via]
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No Man's Land - The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Vol. 1: The War of the Words
by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

ISBN 0300040059 (0-300-04005-9)
Hardcover, Yale University Press

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No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Letters from the Front
by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

ISBN 0300066600 (0-300-06660-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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This final volume in Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and H.D. to Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood - have found themselves on a confusing cultural front and have responded by dispatching "missives" on the profound changes in the roles and rules that govern sexuality. [via]
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  Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Sexchanges
by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

ISBN 0300050259 (0-300-05025-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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No Mans Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century The War of the Words
by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

ISBN 0300045875 (0-300-04587-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In Volume One Gilbert and Gubar survey the social, literary, and linguistic conflicts between men and women that mark modernism, examining the work of writers from Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charlotte Bronte to Robert Lowell and May Sarton. [via]
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Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History of the Writer in America
by Van Wyck Brooks, Otto Bettmann

ISBN 044822061X (0-448-22061-X)
Hardcover

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A Pictorial history of the writer in America, with more than 500 illustrations. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature
by James David Hart

ISBN 0195030745 (0-19-503074-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature
by Phillip Leininger, James David Hart

ISBN 0195065484 (0-19-506548-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.

For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.

These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.

Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
by Margaret Drabble

ISBN 0198614535 (0-19-861453-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for the Fifth Edition, the eminent novelist and biographer Margaret Drabble has put together the most substantial and significant revision in the book's distinguished history.

The Classic Guide to English Literary Culture
Here, thoroughly updated, is the standard reference work on English literature, both clasic and contemporary. The virtues established by Harvey are intact: the useful plot summaries, the separate entries on important fictional characters, the countless biographical articles on authors and other important figures in the world of letters, the lightness of touch that makes the book a pleasure to read. As ever, this is an essential book for libraries large and small, for students, for teachers, for everyone interested in English literature.

Revisions Deepen and Widen Book's Appeal
Drabble's revisions not only bring the volume up to date; they both deepen and widen its appeal. Topics once regarded as non-literary--detective stories, science fiction, children's literature, comic strips, for example--are now included, as are numerous foreign language authers who have become well-known in translation. There are also entries on composers who have adapted English texts to musical forms and articles on visual artists whose work has been touched by the English literary consciousness. The book covers all the important movements and critical theories (including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism and Saussurean linguistics and its successors). What is more, the entries on classic works--Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queen, and many others--now incorporate the findings of the latest scholarship. In still another innovation, the entries now offer the reader a guide to turther study and research by referring to the relevant biographies, memoirs, critical studies, and standard scholarly editions of many of the important works. Also, the book's appendices on censorship, copyright, and the calendar have been updated, and an exhaustive cross-referencing system in the manner of the more recent Companiions has been adopted.

About the Editor:

Margaret Drabble's many books include The Middle Ground, The Realms of Gold, The Ice Age, Thank You All Very Much, and A Writer's Britain.

Standard Features:
Among the many notable features distinguishing The Oxford Companion to English Literature are:

· Alphabetically arranged entries

· Entries on important individual works

· Author entries that include concise biographical information and cite their major works

· Many entries on historians, critics, philosophers, and booksellers

· Coverage of many American authors and of foreign language authors famous in translation

· Entries on non-literary figures famous in a literary context, from Penelope Rich to Ottoline Morrell

· Articles on literary societies, clubs, and coffee houses

· Definitions of literary and artistic movements, from Existentialism to the New Criticism, from Neo-classicism to Structuralism

· Entries on prizes, periodicals, newspapers, and literary agents

· Updated appendices on censorship, copyright, and the calendar

· Extensive system of internal cross references, redesigned in the manner of the more recent Companions [via]
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The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
by Robert Welch, Bruce Stewart

ISBN 0198661584 (0-19-866158-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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By turns sacred or profane, mystical or earthy, scathingly satirical and modern or achingly nostalgic for the ever-receding past, the literature of Ireland has long entranced and entertained readers the world over. Now The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature provides a comprehensive and delightfully readable guide to the evolution and achievements of Irish writers and writing across sixteen tumultuous centuries, from fourth-century ogam writing etched on ancient stones, to the towering twentieth-century figures of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett, to the bold new voices emerging today as Ireland enters a new era and a new century.
Written by a distinguished team of writers from Ireland and around the world, this remarkable Companion offers over 2,000 entries that provide insight into the intimate fusion of history, literature, and culture that distinguishes so much of Ireland's poetry, drama, and fiction. Unrivalled in scope, this superb volume encompasses writing in both the Irish language and in English, across the religious and political spectrums, by native Irish and Anglo-Irish writers and such outsiders as Londoner Edmund Spenser, who completed The Faerie Queen--and indeed most of his life's work--during his two decades in Ireland. In contrast to other, less complete references, the editors of this Companion seek always to show the complex and continuing influence of the Irish language on writers in English, and vice versa. And as befits a country where so many writers have not only been commentators and observers of history but also active participants in the nation's affairs, there are dozens of entries on important historical events that shaped the lives and fired the imaginations of the Irish, from the Battle of the Boyne and the Great Famine of the 1840s, to the Easter Uprising of 1916 and today's continuing conflicts and controversies. Hundreds of biographical entries range from the early bards and authors such as Adaman, the seventh century abbot and biographer of the Irish saint Colum Cille, to contemporary writers such as Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. The myriad contributions of Ireland's women writers also are well-represented here, with entries on folklorist and dramatist Lady Gregory, co-founder of Ireland's world-renowned Abbey Theatre, and many others, including the novelists and short story writers Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, Julia O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien and Maeve Binchy, and contemporary poets Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomnaill, and Rita Ann Higgins.
Whether readers are seeking a quick introduction to the mythic figures of Cu Chulainn and the sidh, or fairy folk, who haunt the pages of Yeats's early poems, a handy who's who to the Dublin of Swift, Joyce, or Behan, or an invitation into the theatrical worlds of J.M. Synge or Sean O'Casey, The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature is a wonderfully accessible reference and an indispensable research tool. It will be treasured not only by students and scholars of Irish writing and history, but by anyone seeking a more acute understanding of one of the world's most vibrant literary traditions. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to the English Language
by Tom McArthur

ISBN 019214183X (0-19-214183-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity of the human mind as it reaches out to others. It is surprising then that until now there has been no major one-volume reference devoted to the most widely dispersed and influential language of our time: the English language.
A language-lover's dream, The Oxford Companion to the English Language is a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. The range of topics is remarkable, offering a goldmine of information on writing and speech (including entries on grammar, literary terms, linguistics, rhetoric, and style) as well as on such wider issues as sexist language, bilingual education, child language acquisition, and the history of English. There are biographies of Shakespeare, Noah Webster, Noam Chomsky, James Joyce, and many others who have influenced the shape or study of the language; extended articles on everything from psycholinguistics to sign language to tragedy; coverage of every nation in which a significant part of the population speaks English as well as virtually every regional dialect and pidgin (from Gullah and Scouse to Cockney and Tok Pisin). In addition, the Companion provides bibliographies for the larger entries, generous cross-referencing, etymologies for headwords, a chronology of English from Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries or bibliographies. And like all Oxford Companions, this volume is packed with delightful surprises. We learn, for instance, that the first Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard later became President (John Quincy Adams); that "slogan" originally meant "war cry"; that the keyboard arrangement QWERTY became popular not because it was efficient but the opposite (it slows down the fingers and keeps them from jamming the keys); that "mbenzi" is Swahili for "rich person" (i.e., one who owns a Mercedes Benz); and that in Scotland, "to dree yir ain weird" means "to follow your own star."
From Scrabble to Websters to TESOL to Gibraltar, the thirty-five hundred entries here offer more information on a wider variety of topics than any other reference on the English language. Featuring the work of nearly a hundred scholars from around the world, this unique volume is the ideal shelf-mate to The Oxford Companion to English Literature. It will captivate everyone who loves language. [via]
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The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
by J.A. Cuddon, Claire Preston

ISBN 0140513639 (0-14-051363-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This edition of an established dictionary of literary terms, is brought up-to-date by the inclusion of new terms from literary theory and structuralist, post-structuralist and deconstructuralist criticism. [via]
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 1573225142 (1-57322-514-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Discussed and debated, revered and reviled, Bloom's tome reinvigorates and re-examines Western Literature, arguing against the politicization of reading. His erudite passion will encourage you to hurry and finish his book so you can pick up Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens once again to rediscover their original magic. In addition, his appendix listing of the "future" canon - the books today that will be timeless tomorrow - is sure to be the template for future debate. [via]
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life Innineteenth-Century England
by Daniel Pool

ISBN 0671882368 (0-671-88236-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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From fox-hunting to whist, this lively guide to the intricate manners, mores, social distinctions, sports, games, and sundry peculiarities of 19th-century England is a grand resource for anyone interested in Albion at its most arcane, eccentric, and imperial. Line drawings. [via]
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El Canon Occidental
by H. Bloom

ISBN 8433966847 (84-339-6684-7)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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El autor retoma la antigua idea del canon o catalogo de libros perceptivos, y propone un recorrido por la historia de la literatura occidental mediante 26 autores que el considera capitales, y que van desde Shakespeare hasta Dante, Cervantes, Joyce o Borges. Asi mismo reivindica la autonomia de la estetica y el placer de la lectura sin intenciones de redencion social, y basada en el puro goce intelectual. [via]
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