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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... beautiful object that makes it aesthetically pleasing ( i.e. , it is not beautiful be- cause it is symmetrical , just large enough , or because of any other rule - based criterion ) . Instead , Kant argues , the object's beauty resides ...
... beautiful description of medieval craftsmanship , “ The Nature of Gothic ” ( in The Stones of Venice [ 1853 ] ) . The Marxist idea of alienation was a basic con- cept for many social theorists in the 1960s , notably Herbert Marcuse ( in ...
... point , the ne plus ultra , of true modern poesy ! " Pope here parodies Longinus's Peri Hupsous , the famous ancient treatise on the sublime or lofty ( see SUBLIME ) . BEAUTIFUL 37 Martin Price writes that “ Swift and Pope.
... beautiful Edmund Burke , in A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ( 1757 ) , contrasts the sublime and the beau- tiful . The beautiful , with its smooth , convenient perfections , seduces us ...
... beautiful, in contrast to the sublime, exhibits harmonious, unbroken shapes, and is soothing rather than shocking in its effects. A beautiful land- scape gently urges and invites, offering rolling hills and slight valleys. The sublime ...