A handbook to literature
by William Harmon, C. Hugh Holman
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The definitive, contemporary reference on literature and literary criticism in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. Covers a wide range of terms, most centered in literature, but extending into other areas, such as film, radio, TV, printing, linguistics and literary theory, music, graphic arts, classical studies, and computing and show more information science terms. For anyone interested in literature and literary criticism. show lessTags
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I was made to buy this in my first Lit Crit class as an undergrad and, although we never directly used it in the class, this has been one of the most valuable books I collected in college!
This is a fantastic resource for English teachers and students. Most entries are easily accessible for students at the college level.
I have used this book in large ammounts of my literature studies at the university, and despite bing an old edition it still holds key terms to make studies just a little easier on students.
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- 1973
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- The preface to the 3rd edition indicates that Holman completely rewrote the text at this point, rather than simply revising and expanding the original Thrall and Hibbard text as he had in the 2nd ed. Based on this information... (show all), the 1st and 2nd eds. have been separated from this work and treated as a second work. If textual analysis of the 1st and 2nd editions with the later editions show this to be unwarrented, they can be recombined. Otherwise please keep them separate.
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