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

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.