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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... Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Helen Vendler on poetry; John Hollander on verse form; Stanley Cavell on philosophy's relation to literature; Fredric Jameson on Marxism; Robert Alter on the Bible as literature; Alice Jardine and ...
... Harold Bloom's The Visionary Company , Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel , Geoffrey Hartman's Beyond Formalism , Martin Price's To the Palace of Wisdom , Martha Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness , Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era , Irving ...
David Mikics. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank John Hollander and Harold Bloom for their irreplace- able enthusiasm and guidance, which I have relied on so many times. John Kulka, every author's ideal editor, was essential in ...
... Harold Bloom has applied the term agon to the struggle between authors, with a later author striving to define himself or herself against an earlier one. Keats's agon with Milton, for instance, is exemplified in his rebellious statement ...
... Harold Bloom , Yeats ( 1970 ) , and Daniel O'Hara , Tragic Knowledge ( 1981 ) . anxiety of influence A concept invented , or discovered , by Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence ( 1973 ) . Bloom describes the agon or struggle ...