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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... actions become senseless , absurd , useless . " Ionesco's definition suggests that the conviction of life's absurdity follows from what Nietzsche called the “ death of God , " with the result that humans inhabit a desacralized universe ...
... actions . See also FABLE ; FIGURA ; HERMENEUTICS ; MIMESIS ; PARABLE ; SYMBOL . alliteration Neighboring words that begin with the same consonant . This is the usual definition of alliteration , though the term is sometimes expanded to ...
... action " in his essay " Where the Action Is " ( from The Presen- tation of Self in Everyday Life [ 1956 ] ) . Recently , there have been significant rapprochements between analytic and continental styles of philosophizing , guided in ...
... action who dreamed himself an aesthete ( his superbly fashioned anti - self ) . According to Yeats , in his autobiographies and in A Vision ( 1925 ) , the pri- mary antithesis is always the one between the created , organized work of ...
... poetry the knowl- edge and moral weight that Plato had denied it. Aristotle focuses on the idea that a tragedy presents a serious and complete imitation of an action. Poetry 26 26 ARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM is not for him the portraying.