From the back cover:

This new revised edition defines over two thousand literary terms in use internationally.

Barcarole, courtesy book, desert island fiction, folly literature, Gothic novel, grand tour, joruri, karagoz, limerick, macaronic, nonsense, plagiarism, sprung rhythm, spy sotry, table-talk, vorticism and many more - all the entries are listed alphabetically and explained with illustrations from literature past and present.

The entire dictionary is cross-referenced and, in addition to those of the established literary genres, it includes lesser-known and technical terms, alongside terms from over a dozen foreign languages - altogether a superlative work of reference that will also be read for pleasure.

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