A New Handbook of Literary TermsYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 368 páginas A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from classicism to postmodernism. The Handbook also supplies a helpful map to the intricate and at times confusing terrain of literary theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century: the author has designated a series of terms, from New Criticism to queer theory, that serves as a concise but thorough introduction to recent developments in literary study. Mikics’s Handbook is ideal for classroom use at all levels, from freshman to graduate. Instructors can assign individual entries, many of which are well-shaped essays in their own right. Useful bibliographical suggestions are given at the end of most entries. The Handbook’s enjoyable style and thoughtful perspective will encourage students to browse and learn more. Every reader of literature will want to own this compact, delightfully written guide. |
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... America by Thomson- Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mikics, David, 1961– A new handbook of literary terms / David Mikics p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-10636-7 (alk ...
... come in el- liptical, oblique fragments, snatches of dreams. So current American poetry often sees the most pregnant meanings residing in the tiniest flicks of ALIENATION EFFECT 7 thought , the most broken impressions and.
... American Renaissance The name given to the outpouring of American clas- sics in the 1840s , 1850s , and 1860s by Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau , Herman Melville , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Walt Whitman , Emily Dickinson , Edgar ...
... American literature looking back to the revolution- ary generation. Ann Douglas, claiming Margaret Fuller as an important mem- ber of the group, illuminated the contention between American Renaissance writers and the popular sentimental ...
... American slaves . Describing the shepherds depicted in pastoral verse , George Puttenham writes in The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ) , “ Sometimes also they sang and played on their pipes for wagers , striving who should get the best ...