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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... W. B. Yeats ( 1865–1939 ) . See also ANTITHETICAL and DECA- DENCE . aesthetics Aesthetics , as a modern discipline , was inaugurated by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten in 1735. Its most influential pro- ponent was ...
... W. B. Yeats expounds the idea of the antithetical in a contrary manner to that of Aristotle . In Yeats , the stark contrast of a rhetorical opposition substi- tutes for , rather than depending on , the logic of a refutation . Sheer ...
... W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound ; and David Kalstone's Becoming a Poet ( 1989 ) describes the close relations of Elizabeth Bishop to two fellow poets , Robert Lowell and Marianne Moore . country - house poem Popular in the seventeenth ...
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