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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... original Allegory ( 1964 ) gave new life to the critical discussion of allegory . On allegory and symbol , see Tzvetan Todorov , Theories of the Symbol ( 1977 ) . Annabel Patterson explores political allegory in her Fables of Power ...
... original in the ways they refounded philosophical discussion , suggesting that much of previous tradition had simply failed to pay attention to what we do and say . Now philosophy was to be established in the common , the ordinary ; it ...
... original . ” Jon- son , in this passage , seems to neglect the fact that a later author wants to dis- tinguish himself , rather than becoming another Virgil or Ovid . ( See IMITA- TION for more on Renaissance ideas of literary tradition ...
... original- ity . See Bloom , The Anxiety of Influence ( 1973 ) , and Bloom , Poetics of Influ- ence , ed . John Hollander ( 1988 ) . aphorism An aphorism is a many - faceted observation : speculative and not necessarily witty . The ...
... original model of the canonical, contains a series of ac- cepted texts that support and consolidate one another. The Torah (or “teach- ing”) consists of the five books of Moses, whose authorship is traditionally ascribed to Moses ...