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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... 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 the topoi that engage medieval and ...
... satire ” : the poison of the spider . But the ancients enjoy , according to Swift , a better advantage , the product of " infinite labour , and search , and ranging through every corner of nature ” : the honey sweetness of the bee . The ...
... SATIRE . The burlesque need not be merely negative or derisive . Geoffrey Chaucer's Miller's Tale ( ca. 1386 ) offers a burlesque of courtly love and , in the process , advocates a crude country gusto over the thin , conniving ...
... satire on political issues . Aristophanes ' Frogs ( 405 BCE ) poked fun at his rival tragic playwrights , Sophocles , Aeschylus , and Euripides . By the mid - fourth century BCE , Old Comedy ( and its successor , Middle Comedy ) had ...
... Satire in Early English Literature ( 1956 ) , Lawrence Lipking , Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition ( 1988 ) , John Kerrigan , ed . , Motives of Woe ( 1991 ) , and Mark Rasmussen , " Spenser's Plaintive Muses , " in Spenser Studies 13 ...