For literature courses that use a handbook

Message:  An essential, time-tested reference to literature.

This essential time-tested reference on literature and literary terms provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. The new edition now includes a website that offers a mini-glossary of key terms, a pronunciation key for select terms, pre- and post-tests on the terms, flash cards for key terms, an interactive literary timeline, and links for all Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning authors.