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Books Featured in the 'Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'

An extremely useful book for English Literature students or the merely curious: this list contains works used as examples for the various entries (from 'abjection' to 'zeugma') which include critical and theoretical movements, and coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric and literary history
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Powers of Horror
Powers of Horror
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
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The Lost World
The Lost World
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Beau Geste (P.C. Wren)
Beau Geste
P.C. Wren
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Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens)
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
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Walter Pater
Walter Pater
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Frogs by Aristophanes
Frogs by Aristophanes
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Callimachus--Hymns and Epigrams
Callimachus--Hymns and Epigrams
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The Unfortunates
The Unfortunates
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The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica
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Theocritus--Idylls
Theocritus--Idylls
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Terence
Terence
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Catullus--Attis and Other Poems
Catullus--Attis and Other Poems
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Phaedra by Jean Racine
Phaedra by Jean Racine
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The Eve of St. Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes
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Mother Courage and Her Children (Bertolt Brecht)
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
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The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
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The Plays of John Dryden
The Plays of John Dryden
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
George Orwell
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Age of Anxiety (W.H.Auden)
Age of Anxiety
W.H.Auden
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Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage (Translator))
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Simon Armitage (Translator)
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats)
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
James Joyce
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Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
Homer
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity
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Scouting for Boys
Scouting for Boys
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Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
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Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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