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ofLiterary Terms  \nS EV E NTH E DITI0 N  \nM.H.ABRAMS  \nCO R N E L L U N I VE R S ITY  \nHEINLE &HEINLETHOMSON LEARNING  \nPublisher:Earl McPeek  \nAcquisitions Editor:Claire Brantley  \nDevelopmental Editor:Camille Adkins  \nProduction Editor:James McDonald  \nProject Editor:Louise Slominsky/Lisa A.Cooper  \nCopyright ◎1999 Heinle &Heinle,a division ofThomson Learning,Inc.Thomson Learning TM isa trademark used herein under license.  \nPrinted in the United States of America.891006050403  \nFor more information contact Heinle &Heinle,25 Thomson Place,Boston,Massachusetts 02210USA,or you can visit our Internet site athttp://www.heinle.com  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this work coveredby the copyright hereon may be reproduced orused in any form or by any means—graphic,electronic,or mechanical,includingphotocopying,recording,taping,Web  \ndistribution or information storage and retrievalsystems—without the written permission of thepublisher.  \n## A Glossary of Literary Terms/Seventh Edition\n\nM.H.Abrams  \nCompositor:Impressions  \nProduct Manager:John Meyers  \nArt Director:Sue Hart  \nText Printer:Malloy Lithographing  \nCover Printer:Phoenix Color Corp  \nFor permission to use material from this text orproduct contact us:  \nTel1-800-730-2214Fax1-800-730-2215Webwww.thomsonrights.com  \nISBN:0-15-505452-X,  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:98-72577  \nTo Ruth  \n## Preface\n\nThis book defines and discusses terms,critical theories,and points of viewthat are commonly used to classify,analyze,interpret,and write the history ofworks of literature.The individual entries,together with the guides to furtherreading included in most of them,are oriented especially toward undergradu-ate students of English,American,and other literatures.Over the decades,however,they have proved to be a useful work of reference also for advancedstudents,as well as for the general reader with literary interests.  \nThe Glossary presents a series of succinct essays in the alphabetic order ofthe title word or phrase.Terms that are related but subsidiary,or that desig-nate subclasses,are treated under the title heading of the primary or genericterm;also,words that are commonly used in conjunction or as mutuallydefining contraries(distance and involvement,empathy and sympathy,narrativeand narratology)are discussed in the same entry.The alternative organizationof a literary handbook as a dictionary of terms,defined singly,makes dullreading and requires excessive repitition and cross-indexing;it may also bemisleading,because the use and application of many terms become clear onlyin the context of other concepts to which they are related,subordinated,oropposed.The essay form makes it feasible to supplement the definition of aterm with indications of its changes in meaning over time and of its diversityin current usage,in order to help readers to steer their way through the shift-ing references and submerged ambiguities of its literary applications.In addi-tion,the discursive way of treating more or less technical terms provides theauthor with an opportunity to write entries that are readable as well as useful.In each entry,boldface indicates terms for which the entry provides the prin-cipal discussion;italics identify terms that occur in the entry but are discussedmore fully elsewhere in the Glossary,on pages that are specified in the Index ofTerms.  \nThe purpose of this new edition is to keep the entries current with therapid and incessant changes in the literary and critical scene,to take into ac-count new publications in literature,criticism,and scholarship,and to takeadvantage of suggestions for improvements and additions,some of them so-licited by the publisher but many generously volunteered by users of the Glos-sary.All the entries have been rewritten and a number have been drasticallyrecast,especially those whi","cbCaivH62s2vnX5V","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivH62s2vnX5V","pdf",7924552,386,"English","# Preface\n## How to Use 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