The Concise Oxford Companion To English Literature

Author : Dinah Birch,Katy Hooper
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191036743

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch,Katy Hooper Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000052122490

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble Pdf

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.

Author : Margaret Drabble,Jenny Stringer,Daniel Hahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198605595

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble,Jenny Stringer,Daniel Hahn Pdf

This is a book 'one turns to with constant pleasure' (TLS). The classic guide to English literature, fully updated and revised for this paperback new edition. Based on the best-selling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors working under Margaret Drabble's editorial direction, this handy reference work provides the reader with unrivalled coverageof writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Extensively updated and expanded for this new edition, this book provides essential reading for readers. New entries on modern authors such as Jim Crace and Ben Elton have been added, alongside new entries on topics such as travel writing and Anglo-Indian literature. Over 5,500 entries provide a wide coverage, including entries on the literature of other countries. The fully-updated appendiceslist literary prize-winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker prize, and Pulitzer prizes.

Author : James David Hart
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39076006596139

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James David Hart Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1335725445

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble Pdf

Author : Sir Paul Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015010861667

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Sir Paul Harvey Pdf

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English philology
ISBN : 9780192806376

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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language by Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur Pdf

From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.

Author : William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198031758

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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris Pdf

A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.

Author : Dinah Birch,Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192806871

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch,Margaret Drabble Pdf

Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780192122711

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English by Jenny Stringer Pdf

Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.

Author : Dorothy Eagle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198812337

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature by Dorothy Eagle Pdf

A superb reference for readers of English literature, this abridgement of Harvey's Oxford Companion to English Literature is now in its second edition, with revisions based on the fourth edition of the Companion. All of Harvey's principal entries on authors, works and mythological and historical subjects are included in abbreviated form--as well as brief reference notes and articles on general literary topics and terms such as Anglo-Saxon Literature, Blank Verse, and Romantic Revival.

Author : James D. Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195047714

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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart Pdf

This concise version contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780199208272

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191018213

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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick Pdf

The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. It is now available in a new and expanded edition and includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. New to this edition are recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website.

Author : David Sander,Klaus Scherer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191021008

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Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences by David Sander,Klaus Scherer Pdf

Few areas have witnessed the type of growth we have seen in the affective sciences in the past decades. Across psychology, philosophy, economics, and neuroscience, there has been an explosion of interest in the topic of emotion and affect. Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and easy-to-use, the new Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out about theories, concepts, methods, and research findings in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field - one that brings together, amongst others, psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians. Organized by alphabetical entries, and presenting brief definitions, concise overviews, and encyclopaedic articles (all with extensive references to relevant publications), this Companion lends itself to casual browsing by non-specialists interested in the fascinating phenomena of emotions, moods, affect disorders, and personality as well as to focused search for pertinent information by students and established scholars in the field. Not only does the book provide entries on affective phenomena, but also on their neural underpinnings, their cognitive antecedents and the associated responses in physiological systems, facial, vocal, and bodily expressions, and action tendencies. Numerous entries also consider the role of emotion in society and social behavior, as well as in cognitive processes such as those critical for perception, attention, memory, judgement and decision-making. The volume has been edited by a group of internationally leading authorities in the respective disciplines consisting of two editors (David Sander and Klaus Scherer) as well as group of 11 associate editors (John T. Cacioppo, Tim Dalgleish, Robert Dantzer, Richard J. Davidson, Ronald B. de Sousa, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Nico Frijda, George Loewenstein, Paula M. Niedenthal, Peter Salovey, and Richard A. Shweder). The members of the editorial board have commissioned and reviewed contributions from major experts on specific topics. In addition to comprehensive coverage of technical terms and fundamental issues, the volume also highlights current debates that inform the ongoing research process. In addition, the Companion contains a wealth of material on the role of emotion in applied domains such as economic behaviour, music and arts, work and organizational behaviour, family interactions and group dynamics, religion, law and justice, and societal change. Highly accessible and wide-ranging, this book is a vital resource for scientists, students, and professionals eager to obtain a rapid, conclusive overview on central terms and topics and anyone wanting to learn more about the mechanisms underlying the emotions dominating many aspects of our lives.