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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... Theory and Ross Murfin's and Supryia Ray's Bed- ford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms are valuable, and in Cuddon's case comprehensive, tomes whose size makes them less than ideal for classroom use. (Cuddon is over a thousand ...
... theory , foremost among them Hazard Adams's Literary Theory Since Plato . In addition , the recent collection edited by Daphne Patai and Will Corral , Theory's Empire , presents a series of invigorating and worth- while debates about ...
... theory and its background may wish to read the following series of entries in se- quence (about twenty-five pages altogether): Aristotelian criticism, formal- ism, New Criticism, close reading, hermeneutics, phenomenology, Marxist ...
... theory, for him the ancient authors mostly offer a heartening escape, rather than a definitive guide to life, which has changed since the old days. (Similarly, the art critic Dave Hickey writes of taking down his grandfather's copy of ...
... Theory of the Avant Garde ( 1962 ) ; Peter Bürger , Theory of the Avant Garde ( 1974 ) ; and Marjorie Perloff , The Po- etics of Indeterminacy ( 1981 ) . Roger Shattuck in The Banquet Years ( 1958 ) pro- vides a fascinating history of ...