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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David Mikics. A abject , abjection In the early 1980s , the French literary theorist Julia Kristeva introduced the concept of abjection . According to Kristeva , the abject is nei- ther subject nor object , but something that precedes ...
... French verse , culminating in the heroic oeuvre of Victor Hugo ( 1802–85 ) ; see Jacques Barzun , An Essay on French Verse ( 1991 ) . See also METER ; SPENSERIAN STANZA . alienation The basic category of Karl Marx's Economic and ...
... French, la querelle des anciens et des modernes) was reinaugurated. John Dryden's dialogue An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) begins with a de- bate over whether the ancient or the modern poets are superior, and eventu- ally adopts a ...
... French ; its Provençal synonym is alba . ) So Shakespeare's Romeo ( accompanied by Juliet , who responds with her own verses ) calls out at once to her and to the morning : look love what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in ...
... French verse form usually consisting of three eight - line stanzas , each ending in a repeated line ( or refrain ) , followed by a four - line stanza ( the “ envoi , ” or send - off ) . The rhyme scheme in this form is ababbcbC , with ...