2000, ISBN: 0198662440

[EAN: 9780198662440], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press], LANGUAGE: REFERENCE & GENERAL, LITERARY STUDIES: WORKS, Jacket, 1184 pages. When the Fifth Edition of T… Plus…

[EAN: 9780198662440], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press], LANGUAGE: REFERENCE & GENERAL, LITERARY STUDIES: WORKS, Jacket, 1184 pages. When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front -page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse o f a book. Now comes the new Sixth Edition, thoroughly updated and greatly expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 di stinguished contributors, who include Salmon Rushdie, Brian Aldis s, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ian Buruma, and Michael Holroyd. Readers will find over 660 new entries, over a third of which were writt en by Drabble herself, including hundreds of new biographies (fro m Kathy Acker to Stefan Zweig) as well as new entries on genres, literary terms, critical schools, and much more. In total, the ne w edition offers over 7,000 alphabetically arranged entries, prov iding incomparable coverage of the classical works of English lit erature, and of European authors and works that have influenced t he development of English literature. Its wide range of articles cover not only authors and their works, but also fictional charac ters, plot summaries, composers and artists, literary and artisti c movements, historians, philosophers, and critics, as well as pu blishing history, literary societies, newspapers and periodicals, critical terms and theory. In addition, there are sixteen new fe ature essays covering everything from gay and lesbian literature to modernism and science fiction, plus a thousand-year chronology that sets key literary works in their historical context, and co mplete lists of poet laureates and literary prize winners. Boast ing a lightness of touch that makes the book a pleasure to read, the Sixth Edition is an indispensable volume for students, for te achers, and for everyone interested in English literature. Edito rial Reviews From Booklist A staple in reference collections sin ce it first appeared in 1932, The Oxford Companion to English Lit erature (OCEL) only improves with age. The eminent British writer Drabble assumed the editorship of this venerable work with the f ifth edition, published in 1985, and she oversaw its two revision s, the first in 1995 and the second in 1998. Of the more than 7,0 00 entries in this sixth edition, approximately 660 are new. Many other entries have been revised and updated, while a sizable num ber (among them Cable, George Washington, Infernal Marriage, Mrs. Norris, Risorgimento, and Will's Coffee House) have been dropped . Approximately one-third of the new entries were authored by Dra bble, and the others were contributed by a team of more than 140 noted writers and scholars (who are identified near the beginning of the volume); however, all entries remain unsigned.During her tenure as editor, Drabble has dropped the policy of excluding aut hors born since 1939, thus opening the door to broader coverage o f contemporary writers. For example, new to this edition are entr ies for Pat Barker, Jim Crace, Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, and Vikr am Seth. Also appearing for the first time are a number of signif icant twentieth-century women authors who had previously been ove rlooked, including Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Jolley, Angela T hirkell, and Eudora Welty. Among other new articles are Censorshi p, Gay and lesbian literature, Intertextuality, and New historici sm. In addition, the volume includes 16 two-page survey articles, most of which provide historical overviews of particular genres and movements, for example, Biography, Gothic Fiction, and Romant icism. Although 14 of these articles are essentially the same as when they were first introduced in the 1998 revision, Metre is a completely new essay, and Structuralism and Post-Structuralism re places the earlier essay that focused only on structuralism. Foll owing the dictionary portion of the work are a chronological char t, a list of British poets laureate, and lists of winners of four major literary prizes.Drabble is to be commended, Books<

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