Posts Tagged ‘glossary’
Reading: Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon
Just finished reading the first time. Will no doubt return to it many many times. Not just English but world literature is included. Fascinating, brilliant, perturbing, encompassing — a brainiac’s delight. In most areas, surprisingly up-to-date, but in others, predictably stuffy. The few omissions are compensated by the sheer quantity of fascinating new names, titles, terms….
More about J.A. Cuddon…. a polymath genius
Written by chinarose
April 28, 2010 at 6:25 am
Posted in Writers and Artists
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