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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... Pastoral . Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages remains the essential guide to the topoi that engage medieval and Renaissance literature . These fourteen books , some of them published as long ago as the 1930s ...
... pastoral poetry. This example fea- tures two shepherds, Perigot and Willye, from Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): PERiGot I saw the bouncing Bellibone, WillyE hey ho Bonibell PERiGot Tripping ouer the dale alone, WillyEs he can ...
... pastoral competitive song . For allied forms , see FLYTING ; STICHOMYTHIA ; see also PASTORAL . amor fati In Latin , “ love of [ one's ] fate . " The affectionate embrace of one's own life in all its sufferings and disappointments , as ...
... pastoral poetry , from Theocritus and Virgil on ( see PASTORAL ) . It has also supplied a landscape for prose ro- mance , most notably in Philip Sidney's Arcadia ( written in 1580 , later ver- sions published in 1590 and 1593 ) . The ...
... Pastoral and Romance (1969). Thomas Rosenmeyer's The Green Cabinet (1969) provides the best overview of the idea of Arcadia in pastoral. archaism A deliberately obsolete or outdated use of language. A good exam- ple is Edmund Spenser's ...