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krj's review against another edition
2.0
Not really recommended. Many of the terms are out of date, self-explanatory, and/or very rarely used in literary studies today. Missing several really key terms/concepts (don't really recall what they were off the top of my head, but basically any time I've actually *needed* to use this book as a reference the term I need is not in it). The definitions it does give are so broad and vague (and usually outdated) as to not be of any use at all (e.g. the entry on Marxist criticism is very outdated; entries on particular genres (e.g. the realist novel) don't even provide a starting point of references to look into the actual scholarly work that's gone into defining the genre).
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