The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest
edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important
terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully
revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this
edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and
discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and
poetic elements, followed by invaluable, up-to-date bibliographies
that guide users to further reading and research. Because the
entries are carefully selected and adapted from the Princeton
Encyclopedia, the Handbook has unrivalled breadth and depth for a
book of its kind, in a convenient, portable size. Fully indexed for
the first time and complete with an introduction by the editors,
this is an essential volume for all literature students, teachers,
and researchers, as well as other readers and writers. * Drawn from
the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of
Poetry and Poetics* Provides 226 fully updated and authoritative
entries, including 100 new to this edition, written by an
international team of leading scholars* Features entries on
critical concepts (canon, mimesis, prosody, syntax); genres, forms,
and movements (ballad, blank verse, confessional poetry, ode); and
terms (apostrophe, hypotaxis and parataxis, meter, tone)* Includes
an introduction, bibliographies, cross-references, and a full index
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