3rd Edition

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

Edited By Peter Childs, Roger Fowler Copyright 2006
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms , this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels. With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes: an exhaustive range of... Read more
Note on the style of references; List of terms; Dictionary of literary terms; Notes on contributors.

Biography

Peter Childs is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire. His recent publications include Modernism (Routledge, 2000) and Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction Since 1970 (Palgrave, 2004). Roger Fowler (1939–99), the distinguished and long-serving Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of East Anglia, was the editor of the original Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms (Routledge, 1973, 1987).