The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms‎,‎ from abjection to zeugma‎.‎ It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language‎.‎ Now expanded and in its fourth edition‎,‎ it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements‎,‎ such as feminism‎,‎ schools of American poetry‎,‎ Spanish verse forms‎,‎ life writing‎,‎ and crime fiction‎.‎ It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama‎,‎ versification‎,‎ rhetoric‎,‎ and literary history‎,‎ as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms‎.‎ Completely revised and updated‎,‎ this edition also features brand‎-new entries on terms such as distant reading‎,‎ graphic novels‎,‎ middle generation‎,‎ and misery memoir‎.‎ Many new bibliographies have been added to entries and recommended web links are available via a companion website‎.‎