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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... Politics and the Novel , Ronald Paulson's Satire and the Novel , Frank Kermode's Romantic Image , and William Empson's Some Versions of Pastoral . Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages remains the essential guide to ...
... political , or philosophical agendas . ( The anxious wish for literature to be guided by philosophy , with its supposedly superior thoughtfulness , begins with Plato . ) The aesthetic poets , who were given this name by Pater , include ...
... political allegories: that the scarecrow represents an agricultural past, for example, and the tin woodsman the industrial future.) Two of the oldest alle- gorical ideas are the ship of state and the body politic, both going back to ...
... political allegory in her Fables of Power ( 1991 ) ; also worthwhile are Rosemond Tuve , Allegorical Imagery ( 1966 ) , Edwin Honig , Dark Conceit ( 1959 ) , and Gordon Teskey , Allegory and Violence ( 1996 ) . See also James Wood ...
... political duties in Renaissance Florence. Machiavelli is a modern: although he relies on Livy and other classics in his political theory, for him the ancient authors mostly offer a heartening escape, rather than a definitive guide to ...