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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... social thinkers like John Ruskin and William Morris also voiced a protest against alienation , in terms that are in some ways comparable to Marxist ones . For an appreciation of social relations supposedly untouched by the alienation ...
... social power . Just as books have authors , so political authority depends on this per- sonal aspect . For Hannah Arendt , authority in politics remains fundamentally per- sonal : it works its effects through the character of the ...
... social theorist Henri de Saint - Simon . Ezra Pound stated in 1914 that " the artist has at last been aroused to the fact that the war between him and the world is a war without truce . " On literary and artistic battlefields , the ...
... social theory , prominent in the 1990s and after , that emphasized the palpable presence of the human body : the im- mediacy of its physical responses , its passions and sufferings . Three main inspirations were Elaine Scarry's The Body ...
... social type : " A Plain Coun- try Fellow , " " A Contemplative Man , " " A Drunkard . ” In this way , character becomes associated with type : the person depicted in a character is really just a predictable bundle of distinguishing ...