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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... Aristotle is based on his impression that the Aristotelian audience is a “ mob , which must be and can be reached only through its emotions . " Brecht neglects Aristotle's idea that the audience , rather than simply and instinctively ...
... Aristotle , Nietzsche , Heidegger , and others . The analytic philosopher is at times willing to discard tradition and start from scratch- from human reason and everyday proof . Some of the major analytic philosophers of recent years ...
... Aristotle , and in Rome , with Horace . Aristotle's Poetics ( ca. 330 BCE ) asserts that acts of bloody violence in tragedy , murders and the like , ought to take place offstage . Similarly , in his Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry , ca. 20 ...
... Aristotle and Horace , does engage questions of audience psychology : he is undoubtedly the primary source of the psychotherapeutic case against the spectacular . For an important eighteenth - century debate about theater , see Jean ...
... Aristotle—the most significant literary critic of all, and one of the first—produced his Poetics around 335 or 330 bcE. What survives of this work (in the form of lecture notes, possibly written down by one of Aristotle's students) is a ...