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The Routledge Dictionary of

Literary Terms

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is a twenty-first century update of Roger

Fowler’s seminal Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms . Bringing together original

entries written by such celebrated theorists as Terry Eagleton and Malcolm Bradbury

with new definitions of current terms and controversies, this is the essential reference

book for students of literature at all levels.

This book includes:

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New definitions of contemporary critical issues such as ‘Cybercriticism’ and

‘Globalization’.

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An exhaustive range of entries, covering numerous aspects to such topics as genre,

form, cultural theory and literary technique.

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Complete coverage of traditional and radical approaches to the study and production

of literature.

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Thorough accounts of critical terminology and analyses of key academic debates.

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Full cross-referencing throughout and suggestions for further reading.

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).

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The Routledge Dictionary

of Literary Terms

Peter Childs

and

Roger Fowler

Based on

A Dictionary of

Modern Critical Terms ,

edited by Roger Fowler

First published in 1973 as A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

Revised edition published in 1987

by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

This edition published 2006

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.

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reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The Routledge dictionary of literary terms / [edited by]

Peter Childs and Roger Fowler.

p. cm.

‘Based on A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, edited by

Roger Fowler.’ Rev. ed. of: A dictionary of modern critical terms.

Rev. and enl. ed. 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Literature – Terminology. 2. English language – Terms and

phrases. 3. Literary form – Terminology. 4. Criticism – Terminology.

I. Childs, Peter. II. Fowler, Roger. III. Dictionary of modern

critical terms.

PN41.D4794 2005

803–dc22

2005006915

ISBN 0–415–36117–6 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–34017–9 (pbk)

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