The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism.
J. A. Cuddon was a writer, school teacher and academic. Best known
for his Dictionary of Literary Terms, he also produced the large
Dictionary of Sport and Games, as well as several novels, plays and
travel books. He also edited two anthologoies of supernatural
fiction. He died in 1996.
M.A.R. Habib received his doctorate from the University of Oxford,
and is Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author
of seven books, including A History Of Literary Criticism- From
Plato to the Present (2005), and editor of the Cambridge History of
Literary Criticism, Vol. VI (2013). He is currently writing a book
entitled Hegel and the Foundations of Modern Literary Theory.
Accomplishes cameo wonders of literary history ... generously and
urbanely compiled
*New York Times*
Scholarly, succinct, comprehensive and entertaining ... an
indispensable work of reference
*Times Literary Supplement*
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