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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... artistic creation is essentially an- tithetical : that is , it requires the construction of a persona , an " anti - self " pro- foundly contrary to one's natural or socially available character . Yeats de- scribed the anti - self as ...
... artistic creation required intense labors of purity and self - denial . Flaubert wrote to his companion Louise Colet in 1852 , “ I am leading a stern existence , stripped of all external pleasure ... I love my work with a love that is ...
... artistic battlefields , the avant - garde aims to épater le bourgeois : to shock the middle classes , jar their conventional taste . More broadly , avant - garde art aims at innovation , and at a revolutionary reassessment of the ...
... artistic institutions : the bourgeois assump- tion that art is separate from ordinary life . The avant - garde intends for art and life to interfere with or contaminate each other . So , in Surrealism , bizarre dreams infiltrate waking ...
... artistic style ( in visual art , music , and litera- ture ) , the baroque suggests the sensuous and mystical , the florid and morbid , an extravagant and somewhat ponderous power of invention . ( The name perhaps derives from the ...