New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Sixth Printing. Softcover. Modern literary and cultural criticism has tended to express itself in terms unfamiliar to the nonspecialist (e.g., gynesis, metalanguage, semiotics). This dictionary provides succinct definitions of more than 450 terms relating to criticism and theory in literature, film, linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy... More about The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism