Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

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Criteria: Discernment and Discourse Reader and Guide is designed to help faculty and students work together to get the most out of any critical thinking and rhetoric class, this book is a storehouse of useful materials: student essays produced in response to a wide range of assignments and accompanied by questions for writing or discussion, tools to aid in the construction and evaluation of writing inside and outside the classroom, and much more.

Criteria: Discernment and Discourse Reader and Guide is designed to help faculty and students work together to get the most out of any critical thinking and rhetoric class, this book is a storehouse of useful materials: student essays produced in response to a wide range of assignments and accompanied by questions for writing or discussion, tools to aid in the construction and evaluation of writing inside and outside the classroom, and much more.

Formerly The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms, this newly updated version contains over 1,600 entries on the devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present. To bring it up-to-date, the authors have added fifty new entries and examples. The numerous quotations from poems are especially useful. The Dictionary of Poetic Terms is compact enough for classroom use, but thorough enough to be the definitive reference handbook for poets and scholars, and the many writers who are both.

The premature death of Ricardo Sanchez in 1995 marked the passing of an almost legendary figure in Chicano literature and in the Chicano political movement. A troubadour of Chicano Movement poetry, he established an anti-aesthetic that became the norm. Sanchez's autobiographical poetry forges a link between genres of the past and present and establishes him as the first great tragic figure of contemporary Chicano literature.In a body of work that spanned spatial, temporal, and cultural boundaries, Sanchez dealt with issues of power and of linguistic and cultural barriers between Anglo, Native American, and Mexican American peoples in the United States.While he lived, critics showed reluctance to engage Sanchez's work fully, perhaps in part because of his reputation as a confrontational, even outrageous individual. Focusing on Canto y grito mi liberacion and Hechizospells, Miguel R. Lopez examines Sanchez's work and places him in the context of the past, present, and future of Chicano literature. Lopez explains clearly the relation of time and space in Sanchez's prolific work and shows him as a writer committed to his craft as well as to his political stance.In the end, the portrait that emerges is of a poet whose work was linguistically and thematically complex and one who was more passionate, controversial, and forthright in his expression than any other contemporary Chicano writer.