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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... Greek aisthein , to perceive ; aisthetes , one who per- ceives . ) Aestheticism means relying on seeing , the refined use of the eye . See- ing thus becomes realized thinking : present and palpable because it issues in sight . The ...
... Greek, a struggle or contest, whether physical or verbal. Examples are the bitter argument between Jason and Medea in Euripides' Medea (431 bcE), or between Achilles and Agamemnon in Homer's Iliad. Harold Bloom has applied the term agon ...
... Greek from the fourth to the first centuries bcE. This literary cul- ture had its center in the Egyptian city of Alexandria during the reign of the Ptolemies. Alexandrian works frequently feature elaborate mythological allu- sions, a ...
... Greek words allos and agoreuein , literally " to say [ something ] differently . ” Allegories turn abstract concepts or features into characters . The formula could be reversed : allegories just as easily transform people and places ...
... Greek and Roman traditions. In Shakespeare's Coriolanus a character makes use of the body-politic image in order to tell a “fable of the belly” in which the members (the working classes) rebel against the stomach (the Roman senate ...