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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... beginning of a new act is frequently marked by a change of setting , the commencing of a new narrative thread , or a shift to a different group of characters ( as well as , often , an intermission ) . The plays of Shakespeare and other ...
... beginning to be formulated within him, and to which art must help him give form. This is not a state order, but a historic demand.” agon In Greek, a struggle or contest, whether physical or verbal. Examples are the bitter argument ...
... Beginning in 1929 , the Vienna Circle , including Moritz Schlick , Rudolf Carnap , and oth- ers , developed logical positivism , the effort to subject our thinking and ex- pression to the strict standards of meaning associated with ...
... and Homer stand at the beginnings of their respective traditions , and these books combine claims for their own authority with their assertions about the utmost power of char- AVANT - GARDE 31 acter , located in divinities and.
... beginning with research on the classics , became a systematic academic discipline only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . See GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT ; PHILOLOGY . beloved , the The beloved is , often , the object of a lyric ...