"Based on earlier editions by William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman."

Appendices list the winners of the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulizer Prizes for fiction, poetry, and drama.

Includes index.

The "definitive," contemporary reference on literature and literary criticism in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. Covers a wide range of terms, most centered in literature, but extending into other areas, such as film, radio, TV, printing, linguistics and literary theory, music, graphic arts, classical studies, and computing and information science terms. For anyone interested in literature and literary criticism.

Lists Nobel Prizes for Literature and Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, Poetry and Drama.