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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... those that fend them off. I hope this book will be diverting as well as instructive, though it cannot compete with that monarch of brows- viii PREFACE ability in the reference genre, Brewer's Dictionary of vii Preface.
... genre; T. S. Eliot on literary tradition; Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Helen Vendler on poetry; John Hollander on verse form; Stanley Cavell on philosophy's relation to literature; Fredric Jameson on Marxism; Robert Alter on the ...
... genre . Frye , like Auerbach , opened up a whole new world for criticism in his book , which continues to be central to literary study fifty years after it was written . A student who wants a sure grounding in literary history , and at ...
... genre . The most familiar example in English is Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) , which divides its subject into a voluminous and bewildering series of categories . A few years before Bur- ton's exhaustive , fascinating ...
... genre , is closer to a one - liner , and more restricted in its effectiveness than the aphorism . ( W. H. Auden gives as an instance of epigram the definition of fox hunting as " the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable ...