The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521831792
• ISBN13: 9780521831796
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 1275 Pages
• Weight: 5.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 2.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

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.