Customer Reviews:
 An impressive reference book August 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since I am the first to review this book, it is important that I let you know just how much information is in here.
Writers - poets, novelists, playwrights, theologians, philosophers, economists, naturalists, scientists, essayists, critics, and historians
Individual plays, poems, novels, and other works
Literary groups or schools - I.E. the Lake Poets, the Beats, the Movement, and the Black Mountain School
Wider literary movements - I.E. neoclassicism, Romanticism, modernism, and post modernism
Critical schools or movements - I.E. the New Criticism, structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, and ethical criticism
Literary genres - I.E. comedy, and tragedy, fable, farce and melodrama
Poetic forms and sub-genres of drama and fiction - I.E. acrostic, the elegy, the revenge tragedy, and the Gothic novel
Critical terms - I.E. metaphor, symbol, dialogism, intertextuality, and unreliable narrator
Rhetorical terms - I.E. anaphora, bathos, chiasmus, synecdoche, and zeugma
Theaters and theater companies - I.E. the Globe, the King's Men, the Federal Theater Project, and the Sistren Theater Collective
Literary magazines - I.E. The Quarterly Review and Punch, The New Masses, and Staffrider
So, as you can see, the list is quite extensive, helpful, and interesting.
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