"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Luttrell, Youngstown State Univ., OhioĬopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. For larger libraries and academic collections. Baldick's chief rival is Northrop Frye's Harper Handbook to Literature (1985), which is more comprehensive but lacks Baldick's currency. In addition to the attention paid to the terminology of classical rhetoric, there is a distinct emphasis on French deconstructionist terms derived from Derrida, Barthes, et al. An uncommon feature of this work is its pronunciation guide, applied to some 200 of the 1000 terms here defined. Included instead are "many terms generated by the growth of academic literary theory in recent years." The explanations are clear and succinct, and often employ illustrative examples. Rejecting "encyclopaedic completeness," it omits commonly understood general terms that are not specifically literary (e.g., art, culture, etc.). Of the many recent dictionaries of literary terms, Baldick's is the one most likely to satisfy today's student. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre John Polidori Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick Oxford World's Classics Also of Interest Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays Aristophanes William and Dorothy Wordsworth Lucy Newlyn A History of the Spanish Novel J.
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