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Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms : 4th edition - Ross Murfin

Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms

4th edition

By: Ross Murfin, Supryia M. Ray (Editor)

Paperback | 30 January 2019 | Edition Number 4

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Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

About the Authors

Ross Murfin, E. A. Lilly Distinguished Professor of English and former provost at Southern Methodist University, has also taught at the University of Virginia, Yale University, and the University of Miami, where he was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences until 1996. He is the author of Swinburne, Lawrence, Hardy, and the Burden of Belief (1978); The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Texts and Contexts (1983); Sons and Lovers: A Novel of Division and Desire (1987); and Lord Jim: After the Truth (1992); and the editor of Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties (1983). The series editor of Bedford/St. Martins popular Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, he has also edited two volumes in the series, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (Third Edition, 2011) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (Second Edition, 2006).

Supryia M. Ray is an attorney, writer, and editor. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998 and summa cum laude from the University of Miami in 1995. She has served in the U.S. federal court system for nine years, as a law clerk to three judges and as a staff attorney focusing on political asylum cases. She has also run her own business as a writer and editor; was in private practice as a litigator; and served as a public-interest environmental advocate, an ESL teacher, and a member of Literacy AmeriCorps. She assisted Ross Murfin in the research and preparation of more than a dozen volumes in the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series and authored “Contextual Documents and Illustrations” for the second edition of The Scarlet Letter.
Industry Reviews
 The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms combines the standard material that every student of literature should know with fresh and insightful examples that give a new shine to our shared critical vocabulary.
-James Morey, Emory University


With its clear, precise, and accessible presentation of literary terms and critical concepts, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is unmatched as a college reference resource.
- Sean Kelly, Wilkes University



The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms remains my book of choice because it can introduce beginners to the nuances of the discipline while helping them develop more complex readings, understandings, and ideas during the course of their entire career.
-Mark Willhardt, Monmouth College

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