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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... play ” of two faculties , imagination and un- derstanding . ( See Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer , eds . , Essays in Kant's Aesthetics [ 1982 ] . ) Among the significant twentieth - century writers on aesthetics are Roger Fry , Clement ...
... play , ” to Aristotelian ideas . “ The Aristotelian play , ” he wrote , " is essentially static ; its task is to show the world as it is . The learning- play is essentially dynamic ; its task is to show the world as it changes ( and ...
... play . . . of the words and phrases of previous writers . ” A source , Ricks continues , “ may not be an allusion , for it may not be called into play . ” Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) are among the most ...
... play , which focused on English kings and the development of the nation , was popular in England from the 1580s through the 1630s . ( Shakespeare's Henry VI , Parts 1-3 are chronicle plays . ) 58 CHRONOTOPE On the chronicle as a mode of ...
... play's audience. When it makes this point, a comedy sometimes casts it- self as a mere means to an end, a way of showing that everything is comic. Tragedy draws us in, focused on a spectacle. Comedy, at times, throws its at- tention ...