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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... Novel, Geoffrey Hartman's Beyond Formalism, Martin Price's To the Palace of Wisdom, Martha Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness, Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era, Irving Howe's Politics and the Novel, Ronald Paulson's Satire and the Novel ...
... Novel and Its Tradition ( ); R. W. B. Lewis, The American Adam ( ); Charles Feidelson, Symbolism in American Literature ( ); Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Literature ( ); Donald Pease, Visionary ...
... novels of the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, for example, or Samuel Beckett's final works, with their stark and attentive interest in a punishing blankness. assonance The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds, usually to create a ...
... novel On the Road ( ) and Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl ( – ), the latter inspired by the prophetic voices of William Blake and Walt Whitman. William Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( ), a nightmarish novel of drug ...
... novel.) As a form of study united with personal experience, Bildung enhances, and even makes, an individual. (Emerson remarks in "The American Scholar" [1837] that "the main enterprise of the world for splendor, for extent, is the ...