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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... rhymes the second and the fourth lines , but not the first and third . The first and third lines have four beats , the second and fourth lines , three beats . Here is Dr. Samuel Johnson's parody of the predictable me- ters and ...
... rhyme scheme in this form is ababbcbC , with the envoi rhyming bcbC ( Cis the refrain ) . In fifteenth - century France , the ballade was perfected by Charles d'Orléans , Christine de Pisan , and ( especially ) François Villon . There ...
... Rhymes , 1374 ) . Shakespeare's sonnets are occupied , or possessed , by two enigmatic beloveds , an aristocratic “ young man ” and a “ dark lady . ” The beloved usually represents a sustained fictive source of poetic inspira- tion , a ...
... rhyming . " See Anthony Hecht , “ Blank Verse , ” in Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes , eds . , An Exalta- tion of Forms ( 2002 ) . See also RHYME . blazon ( or blason ) In love poetry , a blazon is a compact and systematic visual ...
... rhyme ) : When I'm dead , bury me by the highway side . When I'm dead and gone , people , bury me by the highway side : So my mean old spirit , can catch a Greyhound bus , and ride . Such a blues stanza can also be thought of as a kind ...