Overview
This dictionary presents over 4000 quotations which reflect upon all aspects of literature, covering the popular as well as the strictly literary. The two sections of the book, ""The Writer's World"" and ""Writers and their Works"" are arranged by topic. In ""The Writer's World"" topics encompass: characters, dialogue, imagination, narrative, style - ""I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage"" - Frances Trollope (attrib.); fame, inspiration, censorship, plagiarism, money, the human race, insomnia, publishers, and rivalry - ""One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions"" - Salman Rushdie; literary forms, e.g. the novel, science fiction, biography, essays, historical writing, travel writing - ""Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography"" - Evelyn Waugh.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.965kg
ISBN: 9780198600565
ISBN 10: 0198600569
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 01 December 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
We have waited a long time for The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations and it will be as welcome to the general reader as to writers, who will find here material for use as well as for entertainment and enlightenment.... Peter Kemp...brings to his task a wide knowledge and appreciation of literature both old and contemporary...the area to be mined is incredibly wide. -- The Sunday Times<br>
We have waited a long time for The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations and it will be as welcome to the general reader as to writers, who will find here material for use as well as for entertainment and enlightenment.... Peter Kemp...brings to his task a wide knowledge and appreciation of literature both old and contemporary...the area to be mined is incredibly wide.-- The Sunday Times
We have waited a long time for The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations and it will be as welcome to the general reader as to writers, who will find here material for use as well as for entertainment and enlightenment.... Peter Kemp...brings to his task a wide knowledge and appreciation of literature both old and contemporary...the area to be mined is incredibly wide. -- The Sunday Times
Author Information
Peter Kemp is Literary Editor for the Sunday Times and is also a book reviewer for the TLS. He was senior lecturer in English at Middlesex Polytechnic (1968-88) and has written books on Muriel Spark (1974) and H. G. Wells (1982). He is a regular broadcaster on Kaleidoscope, Critics' Forum, Third Opinion, and Meridian, and was one of the Booker Prize judges in 1995.
