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Fourth Edition

Ross Murfin

Southern Methodist University

Supryia M. Ray

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The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms grew out of our work on the Bedford/St. Martins Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, which presents classic literary works reprinted with editorial material and critical essays designed to introduce college students to current literary theories, concepts, and terms. The success of the series and of our collaboration in helping students grapple with complex literary and critical discourses encouraged us to try our hands at a full-scale glossary.

In undertaking this project, we consulted other available guides, and, although we admired and learned from them, we also concluded that they were not fully attuned to current developments in literary studies or to the needs of contemporary students. Accordingly, we set out to produce a glossary that would not only redefine old terms in a concise and accessible manner but also comprehensibly introduce the newest critical theories, approaches, and terminology. In the process, we sought to incorporate a wide variety of examples reflecting the diversity of the arts and the world itself. Furthermore, we saw the glossary as an opportunity to help students understand how literariness figures in their lives, not only in the classroom and in the books they read but also in all the texts that shape their experiences, including those of popular culture.

Notable Features of This Glossary

It defines more than 900 important terms. We have sought to define and describe hundreds of traditional, indispensable terms such as genre, irony, metaphor, narrative, and rhyme in a manner that readers would find clear and current, taking into account their changing inflections and possible new applications. For example, we acknowledge the view, increasingly prevalent since the advent of deconstruction, that irony is a figure of speech; identify examples of anagnorisis in films such as M. Night Shyamalans The Sixth Sense; and distinguish between two scenes in Clint Eastwoods film Million Dollar Baby by applying the concepts of crisis and climax. We have also included terms from classical rhetoric (e.g., prolepsis) and logic (e.g., aporia), many of which have been given new currency in contemporary critical discourse, as well as relatively new terms (e.g., digital humanities, flash fiction, intersectionality) still emerging in our culture and classrooms.

We have included entries on literary theories and forms of literary criticism ranging from formalism to poststructuralism, dialogic criticism to queer theory, ecocriticism to thing theory, as well as the sometimes daunting concepts associated with these varied approaches, such as carnival, diffrance, epistm, jouissance, and overdetermination. Furthermore, we have written entries for numerous periods and movements relevant to literary studies, from the Old English Period to the Postmodern Period, from the Enlightenment to existentialism. Finally, along with our entries describing traditional literary genres such as poetry, prose, and fiction, we have profiled popular, mass-market subgenres such as fantasy fiction, manga, science fiction, and steampunk.

Its examples are drawn from both literature and popular culture. We have searched for illustrative examples not only in canonical literature but also in contemporary literature and older literary works that have often been overlooked. We have thus included hundreds of examples from major figures commonly cited in literary glossaries: Homer, Shakespeare, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Dickinson, Joyce, Woolf, and other classic writers. But we also reference previously marginalized writers such as Aphra Behn and Olaudah Equiano; culturally diverse contemporary authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Isabel Allende, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Junot Daz, Khaled Hosseini, Yann Martel, China Miville, Rohinton Mistry, Dai Sijie, Zadie Smith, and Colson Whitehead; and recent literary best sellers including Anthony Doerrs