The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

This reference volume makes available for convenient personal and classroom use nearly 200 entries selected from the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with primary emphasis on poetic and prosodic terms that are most common in literary study. Included are detailed discussions of poetic forms, rhetoric, genre, and diverse topics such as performance, language poetry, and linguistics and poetics.Each entry includes new bibliographical references, which have been updated since 1986, reflecting the current state of theory and knowledge. Despite its compact size, this New Handbook retains the detailed treatment of entries that is a hallmark of its parent Encyclopedia.This reference volume makes available for convenient personal and classroom use nearly 200 entries selected from the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with primary emphasis on poetic and prosodic terms that are most common in literary study. Included are detailed discussions of poetic forms, rhetoric, genre, and diverse topics such as performance, language poetry, and linguistics and poetics.Each entry includes new bibliographical references, which have been updated since 1986, reflecting the current state of theory and knowledge. Despite its compact size, this New Handbook retains the detailed treatment of entries that is a hallmark of its parent Encyclopedia.

ISBN 0691036713   Pages 356 ISBN13 9780691036717 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher The University Press Group Ltd   Weight (grammes) 500 Imprint Princeton University Press   Published in New Jersey Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 04 Jul 1994   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress PN1021.N39   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 808.1   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC20

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