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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... influential work in the Renaissance, remarks that tragedies “should not be produced beyond the fifth act.” Many modern plays (those of Chekhov and Ibsen, for example) tend to have four acts. Still more recently, dramatists have ...
... influential proponent was Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment ( ; the “third critique,” following his critique of pure reason and his critique of practical reason). For Kant, aesthetic judgment is based on an experience of ...
... influential critics on the American Renaissance followed Mat- thiessen. Richard Chase emphasized the rebellious search for open forms; R. W. B. Lewis underlined the importance of Adamic innocence; Charles Feidelson focused on questions ...
... influential, example of the analytic approach that chooses logic over ordinary language, see A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic [ ]; Gilbert Ryle and G. E. Moore were also significant voices in this trend.) More generally ...
... influential precursor and the ephebe, or young writer, remarking that “poetic history” is “indistinguishable from poetic influence, since strong poets make that history by misreading one another, so as to clear imaginative space for ...