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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... Essays in Kant's Aesthetics [ 1982 ] . ) Among the significant twentieth - century writers on aesthetics are Roger Fry , Clement Greenberg , Susanne Langer , and Theodor Adorno . affective fallacy In their book The Verbal Icon ( 1954 ) ...
... Essay on French Verse ( 1991 ) . See also METER ; SPENSERIAN STANZA . alienation The basic category of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. According to Marx , capitalism requires ( and produces ) alienated labor ...
... essay on the philosopher J. L. Austin , " Austin's Swink , " in Essays in Appreciation ( 1996 ) ; John Hollander , The Figure of Echo ( 1981 ) ; and Eleanor Cook , Against Coer- cion ( 1998 ) . See also ECHO . ambiguity In The Arte of ...
... 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 part by writers ...
... Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) begins with a de- bate over whether the ancient or the modern poets are superior, and eventu- ally adopts a position (voiced by Dryden's spokesman Neander) that recog- nizes the virtues of both. Charles ...