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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... influences on the early work of W. B. Yeats ( 1865–1939 ) . See also ANTITHETICAL and DECA- DENCE . aesthetics Aesthetics , as a modern discipline , was inaugurated by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten in 1735. Its ...
... Influenced by Graves and by the psychologist C. G. Jung, Northrop Frye authoritatively outlined archetypal criticism in his Anatomy of Criticism (1957). Frye defined the archetype by distinguishing it from two contrasting phe- nomena ...
... influenced the counterculture of the 1960s substantially : there is a debt to Ginsberg's rough , aphoristic wildness in the style of that key lyricist of the American ' 60s , Bob Dylan . beautiful Edmund Burke , in A Philosophical ...
... influenced by Burke), Immanuel Kant. In his Critique of Judgment (1790), Kant distinguishes the beautiful from the pleasant (toward which we feel an inclination) and the good (toward which we feel esteem or respect). For the beautiful ...
... influenced by the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce ( 1866-1952 ) . They resembled the New Critics in their insistence that ( in Aristotle's terms ) poetry is not instrumental , but final ; not a means to an end , but an end in itself ...