English Research - Literary Criticism: Background Info

Provides the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject including history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, and critical terms.

An international, encyclopedic guide to the field's most important figures, schools, and movements, literary theory, and criticism.

Entries are international in scope, and describe some 500 major and less well-known literary movements, schools, genres, techniques, and terms of the 20th century, as well as major 19th-century movements which have exerted tremendous influence on 20th-century literature. Each entry describes writers identified with the movement; representative works; literary techniques and philosophical and artistic tenets; and historical and cultural context.

This book gives students not only a traditional literary vocabulary but also the knowledge of related theoretical, historical, and cultural terms they need in the interdisciplinary world of contemporary literary studies.

More than 400 concise articles covering all aspects of literary allegory: the device wherein characters, situations, and actions stand for ideas.

This encyclopedia provides brief summaries of utopian novels and discusses concepts related to utopias and dystopias, which includes some of the literary themes and styles.

Each entry provides: An introduction and overview; A plot summary; An annotated character list; A discussion of the play's principal theme; Understandable essays on the plays construction (setting, dialogue, imagery); Historical and cultural context; Critical commentary; Theme and character index.