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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... books from their first appearance in their native language , not their first translation into English . Classical dates are for the most part taken from The Oxford Classical Dictio- x PREFACE nary (3rd ed.), edited by Simon Hornblower and.
... English Depart- ment for awarding me the grant. For suggestions concerning individual entries, and for other forms of help, I thank Richard Armstrong, Terry Catapano, William Flesch, Dien Ho, Jen- nifer Lewin, Lewis J. Mikics, Steven ...
... English the- ater . The five - act division was adopted in Elizabethan drama in imitation of the Roman philosopher and playwright Seneca the Younger ( ca. 4 BCE − 65 AESTHETICISM 3 CE ) , whose works were published in.
... English are John Bunyan's Pil- grim's Progress (1678), which features characters with names like Hopeful, Little-Faith, and Great-Heart, and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Spenser's Britomart is an adolescent girl dressed ...
... English verse : “ Doom is dark and deeper than any sea - dingle . ” A later poet , John Ashbery ( b . 1927 ) , quoted another Auden line when he named one of his lyrics " Round the Ragged Rocks the Rude Rascals Ran , " a title that ...