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LITERARY TERMS: A Dictionary by Karl & Arthur Ganz Beckson

LITERARY TERMS: A Dictionary

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Pub Date: May 1st, 1975
Publisher: Rev. ed. Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A revised and enlarged edition of a well-known students' handbook. To familiar acquaintances like ""alexandrine"" and ""zeugma"" have been added brief entries on black humor, structuralist criticism, Brecht's Epic Theater, etc. Selective rather than encyclopedic.