• An expanded and fully updated edition of this best-selling dictionary
• Additions include new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, crime fiction, feminist criticism
• Almost 1,200 entries from abjection to zeugma
• Extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history
• New recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website
• Additional further reading recommendations
• Pronunciation guidance for over 200 terms

New to this edition

• New recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website
• Fully revised and expanded
• Increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, crime fiction
• Updated bibliography

Readership: Undergraduates and A-level English literature students and lecturers, and students in related disciplines, such as languages.

Chris Baldick, Goldsmith's College, University of London

Review(s) from previous edition

"This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it ... as apt to the bedside table as to the desk: Dr Baldick is a Brewer for specialized tastes - Times Literary Supplement

"fun to read ... first rate" - Toronto Globe and Mail

Preface
Pronunciation
Literary Terms A-Z
Bibliography