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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... sometimes called the theater of the absurd . Ionesco , describing Kafka's universe , defined the absurd as “ that which is devoid of purpose , ” and added , “ Cut off from his 2 ACCOMMODATION metaphysical , religious , and ...
... sometimes expanded to include repeated vowel sounds ; see ASSONANCE . In Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Bottom chants a bit of heroic alliterative verse : The raging rocks And shivering shocks Shall break the locks Of prison ...
... sometimes , history ) . ( In a broader sense , to allude to something is simply to mention it , usually obliquely or off - handedly . ) Christopher Ricks defines allusion as “ the calling into play . . . of the words and phrases of ...
... Sometimes also they sang and played on their pipes for wagers , striving who should get the best game , and be counted cunningest . ” Virgil's seventh eclogue ( 37 BCE ) , with its cheerfully adversarial singers , provides one of the ...
... sometimes engaged breathlessly in apostrophes : witness Percy Bysshe Shelley's lines in " Epipsychidion ” ( 1821 ) : Spouse ! Sister ! Angel ! Pilot of the Fate Whose course has been so starless ! O too late Beloved ! O too soon adored ...