A New Handbook of Literary TermsYale University Press, 1 okt 2008 - 368 pagina's 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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... According to Kristeva , the abject is nei- ther subject nor object , but something that precedes the making of the hu- man self . Abjection is often associated with repulsive or disgusting substances that occupy the border between the ...
... According to Marx , capitalism requires ( and produces ) alienated labor . That is , bosses and owners purchase labor from workers , who see the work that they " sell " to the owners as fundamentally separate from themselves . The ...
... according to Swift , a better advantage , the product of " infinite labour , and search , and ranging through every corner of nature ” : the honey sweetness of the bee . The issue remains undecided in Swift's era , but it is arguable ...
... According to Yeats , in his autobiographies and in A Vision ( 1925 ) , the pri- mary antithesis is always the one between the created , organized work of art and the chaotic life of the human author who wrote or painted it . The anti ...
... according to de Man , is that knowledge is aporetic , that is , unavailable , because it is subject to a double bind . By definition , we can- not have access to the truth that we seek in literature : and this is literature's truth ...