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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... later work . Some more recent volumes , like Margaret Doody's The True Story of the Novel , share the ambition and innovative character of those I have just listed . The Handbook takes care not to slight younger critics — there are ...
... later authors of what was sometimes called the theater of the absurd . Ionesco , describing Kafka's universe , defined the absurd as “ that which is devoid of purpose , ” and added , “ Cut off from his 2 ACCOMMODATION metaphysical ...
... later author striving to define himself or herself against an earlier one. Keats's agon with Milton, for instance, is exemplified in his rebellious statement about the au- thor of Paradise Lost: “Life to him would be death to me.” An ...
... later , Paul de Man and other deconstructionists continued Benjamin's polemic . Angus Fletcher in his comprehensive and original Allegory ( 1964 ) gave new life to the critical discussion of allegory . On allegory and symbol , see ...
... later poet , John Ashbery ( b . 1927 ) , quoted another Auden line when he named one of his lyrics " Round the Ragged Rocks the Rude Rascals Ran , " a title that embodies the vigorous , consistent nature of alliteration . allusion When ...