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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... meanings, and also from associations with ear- lier tradition. As with some other kinds of avant-garde art, aleatory experi- ments run the risk of being more interesting to the writer than to the reader. Alexandrian Alexandrian ...
... meaning ( the Lamb is Jesus ) . Such readings are not necessarily fully allegorical , though . Diodore of Tar- sus ( fourth century CE ) , interpreting Paul's comments on Hagar and Sarah in Galatians 4 : 22-31 , remarked that while ...
... meanings . Empson adds that " speechless ' will not give away whether [ Isabella ] is shy or sly . ” Shakespeare has made it deliberately unclear whether she moves men " by her subtlety or by her purity . ” Following Empson and others ...
... meaning associated with logic . Wittgenstein and Austin were profound , funny , and strikingly original in the ways they refounded philosophical discussion , suggesting that much of previous tradition had simply failed to pay attention ...
... Meaning in the Visual Arts, and reprinted in an excellent collection edited by Eleanor Lincoln, Pastoral and Romance (1969). Thomas Rosenmeyer's The Green Cabinet (1969) provides the best overview of the idea of Arcadia in pastoral ...