PENGUIN REFERENCE The first edition of this authoritative and illuminating dictionary wa hailed as 'a superlative work of reference that will also be read for pleasure'. In this new edition many of the 2,000 terms originally defined have completely revised entries, and there are several hundred entirely new entr,ies. The coverage of the dictionary has been expanded to encompass literary theo and the critical movements that have developed since the book's first publicatio Now, in addition to stimulating entries on the language of literature and literary criticism, from barcarole and desert-island fiction to sprung rhythm and vorticism, there are numerous sections on theoretical topics. Among these are Freudian and psychoanalytic criticism, formalism, grammatology, hermeneutics, post-modernism and structuralism. 'Scholarly, succinct, comprehensive and entertaining, this is an important book, an indispensable work of reference. lt draws on the literature of many language and quotes aptly and freshly from our own' - The Times EducationaS/ upplement 'Some entries accomplish cameo wonders of literary history. Others are funny ... generously and urbanely comP,iled' - The New York Times THIRD EDITION The cover shows Aristotle (Mansell Collection), Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds (National Portrait Gallery) and Roland Barthes (Camera Press) ISBN 0-14-051227-6 Reference 90401 u.,K. f9.99 AUST. $24.95 (recommended) CAN. $18.99 U.S.A. $15.00 9 780140 512274 PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF LITERAR Y TERMS AND LITERAR Y THEOR Y ]. A. Cuddon was born in 1928 and educated at. Douai and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where, after taking a degree, he did post graduate work on the concept of evil and the devil in medieval and Renaissance literature. He also represented the university at cricket, rugby and hockey, though without gaining a 'blue'. For some ten years he wrote only plays, before turning to other forms. Apart from numerous essays, short stories, ;i.rticles, a dozen plays and three lib retti, he has published a numbcr of novcls, notably A Multitude of Sins, Testament of lscariot, Acts of Darkness, The Six Wounds and The Bride of Battersea, which have been translated into several lan guages, and two travel books; The Owl's Watchsong: a Study of Istanbul and the Companion Guide to Yugoslavia, which have also been translated. This Dictionary of Literary Terms was begun while he was on a fellowship at Cambridge in 1968, and it was completed seven years later. In 1971 he r~ceived an award from the Goldsmiths' Company to make a study of medieval frescoes in Serbia and Mace donia. In 1980 he published A Dictionary of Sport and Games, a two million word aocount of most of ehe sports and games of the world since 5200 BC. This came out in paperback in 1981. A compulsivc traveller (with a special interest in the Balkans and Near East), his _ main recreations are going to the theatre, watching spart and pursu ing an amateur interest in zoology. He has edited The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories and The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (both published · in 1984) and is currcntly finishing a novel and a book about travels in the Balkans. THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF LITERAR Y TERMS AND LITERAR Y THEOR Y THIRD EDITION J. A. CUDDON PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUJN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London w8 5TZ, England Penguin Books USA Jnc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Austraiia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland ro, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondswortn, Middlesex, England A Dictionary of Lit~rary Terms first published in Great Britain by Andre Deutsch Ltd 1977 First published in the USA by Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1977 Revised edition published in Great Britain by Andre Deutsch Ltd 1979 Revised edition published in the USA by Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1?80 Revised edition published in Penguin Books 1982. Published in Penguin Books in the USA by arrangement with Doubleday & Compuny, Inc. 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