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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... English theater. The five-act division was adopted in Elizabethan drama in imitation of the Roman philosopher and playwright Seneca the Younger (ca. – AESTHETICISM 3 ), whose works were published in English as.
... 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, which consumes ...
... Roman wisdom and our latter-day experience can instead be seen as a genuine debate, an intellectual contest. Indeed, the ancients might judge us, and find us lacking. (Incidentally, the word modern in our sense probably arrived in the ...
... Roman poet Horace wrote the best-known ars poetica, around . An ars poetica can be as curt and bristling as Archibald MacLeish's “A poem must not mean / But be,” or as expansive as Wallace Stevens's “Notes Toward a Supreme ...
... Roman literature, Attic prose style is sometimes contrasted to the florid and overblown Asiatic manner. (See C ; ; .) The Attic writer or orator, writes Cicero, resembles the man ...