The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

by Peter Childs (Editor), Roger Fowler (Editor)

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 Covering both long-established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005