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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... tradition of philology? I aim to supply a chart for this troubled territory, so that readers may have a sense of current trends that is informed by a greater knowledge of what lies behind them. Historical per- spective is an essential ...
... tradition. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Alex Preminger and Frank Warnke, offers a far more global portrait of literature, with substantial discussions of African, Asian, and Near Eastern genres. Again ...
... tradition and from the thoughtful, conscious working out and working through that writing usually requires. By using aleatory techniques authors hope to abstract their words from the burden of their usual meanings, and also from ...
... traditions. In Shakespeare's Coriolanus a character makes use of the body-politic image in order to tell a “fable of the belly” in which the members (the working classes) rebel against the stomach (the Roman senate, which consumes the ...
... Tradition (1957); R. W. B. Lewis, The American Adam (1955); Charles Feidelson, Symbolism in American Literature (1956); Ann Douglas, The Fem- inization of American Literature (1977); Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts (1987). amoebean ...