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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... century bcE). The terse, splendid Alexandrian poet Callimachus contributed a major slogan, useful for laconic writers of the future: Mega biblion, mega kakon (big book, big evil). It could be argued that a new Alexandrianism, refusing ...
... century , W. H. Auden frequently relied on an alliterative thread in his poetry , as he evoked the hammering , repeated consonants of Old English verse : “ Doom is dark and deeper than any sea - dingle . ” A later poet , John Ashbery ...
... century cE. By 800 Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire was be- ing referred to as a saeculum modernum: a modern era or rule.) In the twelfth century Bernard of Chartres defended the authority of the ancients against the moderns. Bernard ...
... century debate about theater , see Jean- Jacques Rousseau , Letter to d'Alembert ( 1758 ) , translated with commentary by Allan Bloom under the title Politics and the Arts ( 1960 ) ; also Denis Diderot , The Paradox of Acting ( Paradoxe ...
... century , when World War II was widely felt to be a violent culmination of historical time , Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow ( 1973 ) communi- cated a most frightening aspect of apocalyptic thinking : the potential erasing of the ...