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Title: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
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| The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by Cambridge University Press An impressive reference book | Since I am the first to review this book, it is important that I let you know just how much information is in here.
Writers - poets, novelists, playwrights, theologians, philosophers, economists, naturalists, scientists, essayists, critics, and historians
Individual plays, poems, novels, and other works
Literary groups or schools - I.E. the Lake Poets, the Beats, the Movement, and the Black Mountain School
Wider literary movements - I.E. neoclassicism, Romanticism, modernism, and post modernism
Critical schools or movements - I.E. the New Criticism, structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, and ethical criticism
Literary genres - I.E. comedy, and tragedy, fable, farce and melodrama
Poetic forms and sub-genres of drama and fiction - I.E. acrostic, the elegy, the revenge tragedy, and the Gothic novel
Critical terms - I.E. metaphor, symbol, dialogism, intertextuality, and unreliable narrator
Rhetorical terms - I.E. anaphora, bathos, chiasmus, synecdoche, and zeugma
Theaters and theater companies - I.E. the Globe, the King's Men, the Federal Theater Project, and the Sistren Theater Collective
Literary magazines - I.E. The Quarterly Review and Punch, The New Masses, and Staffrider
So, as you can see, the list is quite extensive, helpful, and interesting.
| | The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by Cambridge University Press Product Description | | This illustrated and fully updated third edition is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. Covering everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world, the new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of which are for living authors. The general reader will find the volume a fascinating reference to browse through and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. Previous Edition (1994) 0-521-44086-6 |
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