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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... Nature of Gothic ” ( in The Stones of Venice [ 1853 ] ) . The Marxist idea of alienation was a basic con- cept for many social theorists in the 1960s , notably Herbert Marcuse ( in One Dimensional Man [ 1964 ] ) . William Monroe draws ...
... nature of alliteration . allusion When a literary work engages in allusion , it refers to — plays with , makes use of earlier pieces of literature ( or , sometimes , history ) . ( In a broader sense , to allude to something is simply to ...
... nature of man . The inquiries of Wittgenstein , Austin , and their heirs are called ordi- nary language philosophy , since they often begin by looking closely at our rou- tine ways of expressing ourselves . Ordinary language philosophy ...
... Nature [ 1979 ] and Contingency , Irony , and Solidarity [ 1989 ] ) . For a focused account of the origins of analytic philosophy , see Michael Friedman , A Parting of the Ways ( 2000 ) . See also CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY ; ORDINARY ...
... nature ” : the honey sweetness of the bee . The issue remains undecided in Swift's era , but it is arguable that , with the coming of Romanticism , mo- dernity is unavoidable . The German Romantic A. W. Schlegel writes that whereas ...