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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... popular sentimental literature of the time. Finally, David Reynolds in Beneath the American Renaissance (1988), an influential work of historicism, described the ties between the American Renaissance writers and the society of their ...
... Finally , Paul Mann's The Theory - Death of the Avant- Garde ( 1991 ) sees the attachment to theory as the factor that destroys avant- garde movements . See DADAISM ; FUTURISM ; SURREALISM . B ballad A ballad is a popular story told ,
... popular hero was Robin Hood ( in nine- teenth - century American ballads he is replaced by a less virtuous gangster , Jesse James ) . One of the richest sources of ballads was the border country be- tween England and Scotland . Ballads ...
... popular form in England un- til the rise of the daily newspaper in the 1860s. The eighteenth was also the century during which ballads gained new prestige. Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) proved an important ...
... Popular Ballads ( 1882–98 ) is a standard collection . ballade Not to be confused with the ballad ( see above ) , the ballade is a French verse form usually consisting of three eight - line stanzas , each ending in a repeated line ( or ...