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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... understanding by being conceived in terms we can know : in the Gospel of John , we are told that “ God is light ” ( John 1 : 5 ) . In Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , the poet relies on accommodation , trans- lating the unimaginable ...
... understanding to claim universal status for the object as beautiful . We experience the harmony or “ free play ” of two faculties , imagination and un- derstanding . ( See Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer , eds . , Essays in Kant's Aesthetics ...
... understanding . ( In this respect analytic philosophy differs from its rival , the continental tradition . ) Beginning in 1929 , the Vienna Circle , including Moritz Schlick , Rudolf Carnap , and oth- ers , developed logical positivism ...
... understanding the canonical is to estimate the extent to which a work answers and revises, or measures, the already existing canon. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), for example, has become canonical partly be- cause it is ...
... understanding , flat characters dwindle into the emblematic , the typical . The round character ( in Shakespeare , James , or Proust , for example ) satisfies a different urge , our wish to experience as large a fictional being as there ...