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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... for, rather than depending on, the logic of a refutation. Sheer antithesis itself becomes an argument. For Yeats, in his prose works The Trembling of the 20 ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE Veil ( ) and Dramatis Personae ( ),
... “The Aphorism,” in Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose ( ). For an idiosyncratic and dazzling selection of aphorisms, consult W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, eds., The Viking Book of Aphorisms ( ). See also ...
... prose ro- mance, most notably in Philip Sidney's Arcadia (written in , later versions published in and ). The art historian Erwin Panofsky wrote an influential essay on the funerary inscription in a painting by ...
... prose writing and everyday speech: me- thought, ween, steed. See Eleanor Cook's essay “Methought as Dream Formula in Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and Others,” in her book Against Coercion ( ). archetype An archetype is ...
... prose style is a refined and smooth one, never extravagant or over the top. Cicero in his Orator ( ) remarks that the orator in the Attic style must avoid heavy-handed, hammy rhetoric: “He will not represent the State as ...