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- catalog abstract "Based on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, this indispensable volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, historians, fictional characters, literary movements, legends, and much more. Like its parent volume, this newly revised abridgement features useful plot summaries, separate entries on important fictional characters, and countless biographical articles on authors and other influential figures in the world of letters, all presented with the same lightness of touch that has made the original work such a pleasure to read. It covers topics once regarded as non-literary - detective stories, science fiction, children's stories, and comic strips among them - as well as important movements and critical theories, including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism. For this revised edition the editors have eliminated the most peripheral entries from the parent volume and have condensed many of the remaining articles, while retaining the clear and graceful style that characterized the original. Existing entries have been fully updated and sixty new entries have been added on contemporary writers. Also included are new appendices listing winners of major literary awards, including the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Booker prizes. It is a book that no home library should be without.".
- catalog contributor b9637067.
- catalog contributor b9637068.
- catalog contributor b9637069.
- catalog coverage "English-speaking countries In literature Encyclopedias.".
- catalog coverage "English-speaking countries Intellectual life Encyclopedias.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Based on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, this indispensable volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, historians, fictional characters, literary movements, legends, and much more. Like its parent volume, this newly revised abridgement features useful plot summaries, separate entries on important fictional characters, and countless biographical articles on authors and other influential figures in the world of letters, all presented with the same lightness of touch that has made the original work such a pleasure to read. It covers topics once regarded as non-literary - detective stories, science fiction, children's stories, and comic strips among them - as well as important movements and critical theories, including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism. For this revised edition the editors have eliminated the most peripheral entries from the parent volume and have condensed many of the remaining articles, while retaining the clear and graceful style that characterized the original. Existing entries have been fully updated and sixty new entries have been added on contemporary writers. Also included are new appendices listing winners of major literary awards, including the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Booker prizes. It is a book that no home library should be without.".
- catalog extent "652 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Concise Oxford companion to English literature.".
- catalog identifier "0192800396".
- catalog isFormatOf "Concise Oxford companion to English literature.".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford paperback reference".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Concise Oxford companion to English literature.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries In literature Encyclopedias.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries Intellectual life Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "820.9/0003 20".
- catalog subject "American literature Bio-bibliography.".
- catalog subject "American literature Dictionaries.".
- catalog subject "English literature Bio-bibliography Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "English literature Bio-bibliography.".
- catalog subject "English literature Dictionaries.".
- catalog subject "English literature Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "PR19 .D732 1996".
- catalog title "The concise Oxford companion to English literature / edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.".
- catalog type "text".