Peck J., Coyle M. Literary terms and criticism

New Edition. — London: Macmillan, 1993. — 222 p. — ISBN 978-1-349-13155-6.Literary Terms and Criticism is a practical guide to the study of English literature. This revised edition includes a number of new topics and new areas, such as twentieth-century poetry and women's poetry, as well as a number of additional critical terms, such as 'Ideology' and 'Carnival'. Section 6, dealing with critical theory, has been revised to include recent developments in criticism, and we have also now included a section on further reading. Our main intention, however, remains that of offering practical advice on how to come to grips with the texts and authors you are studying.
The guide itself is basically a dictionary of literary terms. It resembles other such dictionaries in that it attempts to provide essential information on a wide range of literary topics. It differs from other dictionaries, however, in that we have tried to produce a book that meets the particular needs of students at school, col-lege and university. This means that the overall structure of the book, the range and kind of terms included, and the approach adopted within the individual entries, are somewhat unorthodox as compared to other guides to literary terms.English, American and post-colonial literature: a brief survey
Poetry
Drama
The novel
Critical concepts
Critical positions and perspective