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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... self might come in el- liptical, oblique fragments, snatches of dreams. So current American poetry often sees the most pregnant meanings residing in the tiniest flicks of ALIENATION EFFECT 7 thought , the most broken impressions and.
David Mikics. ALIENATION EFFECT 7 thought , the most broken impressions and the shortest poems . ( See Alan Williamson , Introspection and Contemporary Poetry [ 1983 ] . ) Alexandrine The Alexandrine goes iambic pentameter one better by ...
... in the wilderness, pro- viding water for the famished Israelites (Exodus 17:6), was thought to pre- figure the “pure river of water of life” in the Book of Revelation (22:1), which 10 ALLITERATION issues from " the throne of God and.
... thought, ween, steed. See Eleanor Cook's essay “Methought as Dream For- mula in Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and Others,” in her book Against Coercion (1998). archetype An archetype is a resonant figure of mythic importance ...
... (thought—by which he may have meant commentary or moralizing delivered by the characters), melos (music), opsis (spectacle), mythos (story or plot), lexis (diction), and ethos (character). Arguing against Plato, Aristotle defined and ...