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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... Classical dates are for the most part taken from The Oxford Classical Dictio- x PREFACE nary (3rd ed.), edited by Simon Hornblower and.
... classical Greek askesis , glossed by Walter Pater as " the girding of the loins in youth . ” ( Pater was referring to the discipline and rigor demanded of Greek adolescents training for athletic contests . ) Asceti- cism in the later ...
... classical Roman poetry , Catullus's Lesbia and Propertius's Cynthia ( both first century BCE ) might be based on sheer invention , biographical reality , or something in between . Dante's beloved was Beatrice , immortalized in his 40 ...
... home of the classic. Athens is the city of Plato and Sophocles: writers intent on the rational and critical, definitively modern—and therefore, according to Arnold, classics. CLASSICAL , CLASSICISM 59 See Frank Kermode , The Classic.
... classical , in literary study , normally refers to ancient Greek and Roman writing ; “ classicism ” designates later writing influenced by ancient models . Classicism is also counterposed to romanticism , which often re- places classical ...