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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... Story of the Novel , share the ambition and innovative character of those I have just listed . The Handbook takes care not to slight younger critics — there are quite a few references from the new , twenty - first century - but I have ...
... stories and films , from H. P. Lovecraft to the Alien movies , the monster that must be abjected ( that is , somehow escaped or defeated ) is frequently an amorphous , vaguely maternal , looming and terri- ble presence : " one of those ...
... story induces in them vivid images, intense feelings, or heightened consciousness, is neither anything which can be refuted nor any- thing which it is possible for the objective critic to take into account.” In- stead, criticism ought ...
... stories about reading and interpreting , even when they seem to be mimetic descriptions of real - life characters and actions . See also FABLE ; FIGURA ; HERMENEUTICS ; MIMESIS ; PARABLE ; SYMBOL . alliteration Neighboring words that ...
... (story or plot), lexis (diction), and ethos (character). Arguing against Plato, Aristotle defined and defended tragedy (and, by ex- tension, literature itself ) as a worthy form. Plato had condemned poetry in his Republic (ca. 370 bcE) ...