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Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory, 2/E
X. J. Kennedy
Dana Gioia
Mark Bauerlein

ISBN-10: 0205603564
ISBN-13: 9780205603565

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 176 pp
Published: 01/18/2008

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From the author team of the discipline's most widely used literature anthology, this accessible and instructive guide introduces students to the language of literary study.

 

Featuring an engaging and accessible writing style, this supplemental reference manual for the introductory student serves to demystify literature and the terms, techniques, and analysis tools that literary scholars use.

  • This comprehensive guide features over 400 entries, covering a wide array of literary terms and concepts.
  • Clear, concise, accessible definitions stimulate and motivate students to write better papers about the literature.
  • Pronunciation guidance helps students use terms with confidence in class discussions.
  • Contemporary and culturally diverse literary examples are used to illustrate and explain the concepts.
  • All of the major schools of literary theory are presented to give students thorough background in the critical approaches.

Over 25 additional entries, covering more contemporary terms (blogging, etc).

Selected illustrations throughout.

This is a glossary and will not include a Table of Contents.

    From the author team of the discipline's most widely used literature anthology, this accessible and instructive guide introduces students to the language of literary study.

    Featuring an engaging and accessible writing style, this supplemental reference manual for the introductory student serves to demystify literature and the terms, techniques, and analysis tools that literary scholars use.

  • 0321202074Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory
    Kennedy, Gioia & Bauerlein
    © 2005 | Longman | Paper; 176 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321202074 | ISBN-13: 9780321202079
    Brief Description

X.J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy ("Actually, I was pretty eighth class"). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written five more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.

 

Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. ("Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!") After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry: Daily Horoscope (1986); The Gods of Winter (1991); Interrogations at Noon (2001), winner of the 2001 American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2002); several anthologies; and an influential study of poetry’s place in contemporary America, Can Poetry Matter? (1992). Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and a frequent commentator on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife, Mary, two sons, and an ever growing number of cats.

(The surname Gioia is pronounced JOY-A. As some of you may have already guessed, gioia is the Italian word for joy.)

 

“We assume that appreciation begins in delighted attention to words on a page.”

­­­­­­­­­_____ X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia

 

This simple statement is the guiding principle behind the most popular literature text of its kind.  The authors, with Mark Bauerlein, have now applied that principle to the seemingly complex world of literary terms.

 

Simple, clear and concise, this little handbook is one of the most practical study tools you can lay your hands on.

 

 

 

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