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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... suggests that the conviction of life's absurdity follows from what Nietzsche called the “ death of God , " with the result that humans inhabit a desacralized universe , one without divine plan or purpose . Yet a re- ligious yearning ...
... suggest emotions that are “presented in their objects and contemplated as a pattern of knowl- edge.” Here Wimsatt and Beardsley return to an Aristotelian emphasis on how emotions are produced in an audience by means of literary ...
... final possibility of metaphor , suggesting a complete union between two terms ( as in Shakespeare's " The Phoenix and the Turtle " ) . As Frye puts it , an- ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY agogic metaphor is “ pure and potentially total.
... suggesting that much of previous tradition had simply failed to pay attention to what we do and say . Now philosophy was to be established in the common , the ordinary ; it had to be proven by way of experience , not wishful hypotheses ...
... suggests that our sense of these words cannot be detached from the texts that invoke them most memorably : the works of Plato , Aristotle , Nietzsche , Heidegger , and others . The analytic philosopher is at times willing to discard ...